Data Scientist II (Fixed Term Contract for 18 Months)

• Take all necessary actions to ensure compliance with relevant statutory, legislative, policy and governance requirements in area of accountability, across various countries
• Ensure implementation of relevant policies, governance and practice standards across the business and different countries
• Maintain an understanding on relevant legislative amendments, industry best practices and internal compliance procedures and requirements.
• Ensure compliance is adopted in terms of systems and procedures as laid out by business.
• Implement and provide input into the development of governance and compliance procedures and processes within area of specialisation and identify risks.
• Innovate by finding the best fit solution for the situation such as the flexibility of delivery and customised solutions which result in more efficient outcomes.
• Manage various priorities at the same time and ensuring quality delivery and adherence to timelines
• Have experience in elements around pricing, including revenue leakage
• Ability to incorporate and deliver on strategic requirements, incorporating different realities across the portfolio
• Experience in analysing and providing relevant insight to drive strategic direction of the business
• Maintain ownership of models through regular audits and updates to ensure relevance.
• Plan and perform regular model updates that capture evolving business complexity in current models
• Challenge current models to ensure relevance and accuracy of outputs.
• Identify and implement efficiencies around modeling and the end-to-end pricing elements
• Test outputs and accuracy of outputs to ensure relevance.
• Use data and analytic insights to provide input into improving customer experience through a better understanding of the customers context to identify monetisation opportunities and monitoring implementation of business decisions to recommend enhancements utilising statistical modelling and data analysis.
• Validate, interpret and create reports and presentations for data analytics management and relevant stakeholders.
• Review and assist more junior Quantitative Analysts with processes and models.
• Adhere to model building policies, standards, frameworks, and governance process.
• Ensure own ethical usage of information that complies to restrictions applied for privacy and sensitivity classification.
• Understand and ensure implementation and adherence to Privacy business requirements, legislation and policy.
• Ensure reporting of any Information Privacy Incidents and escalate appropriately for resolution of Privacy and Protection Audit, Findings, Complaints, Incidents, Investigations and Privacy and Protection Assessments.
• Take ownership of and ensure ongoing communication and visibility of progress and sharing of information
• Assist in productionilisation of analytics in the approved FirstRand architecture by translating technical data information into practical business information that addresses identified needs.
• Analyse information requirements, availability and quality of data to feed into management for resolution.
• Participate in relevant project related to the businesses overall analytical needs and opportunities.
• Assist as SME for analytics applying own understanding of the operations of the business product or service.
• Determine the business questions that need be answered and determine appropriate analytics models for utilization.
• Translate business requirements into tangible models utilizing own understanding of the business value of projects, models and processes.
• Develop and apply analytical algorithms and methods to build, test and implement robust mathematical models and analytical solutions that address business problem, opportunities and improve business outcomes i.e., reduced risk and costs, increased profitability, optimized efficiency and to facilitate strategic decision-making.
• Document and audit relevant processes.
• Document and implement models to address specific business requirements.
• Conduct appropriate manipulation and analysis of data to pro-actively identify and meet needs of the business for the purpose of future work and to ensure high information-quality and reliability across the business.
• Deliver within broad parameters.
• Build relationships that allow for the managing of expectations; the sharing of knowledge and diverse insights; and the creation of buy-in.
• Engage in cross-functional relationships to obtain and to provide work support.
• Identify, control and escalate potential risks.
• Develop, encourage and nurture collaborative relationships across the FRG.
• Assess own performance through seeking timely, and clear feedback and request training where appropriate.

• Bachelor of Science: Mathemics
• 4 years in a pricing role with experience in banking a benefit
• Extensive SAS, SQL and Excel experience
• Powerpoint presentations preferred

• Opportunities to network and collaborate.
• Challenging Working
• Opportunities to innovate.

• Curious & courageous - you are driven by always wanting to know more and learn more and you are brave enough to
• Obsessed with mastery - you know what it takes to become good at what you do and are constantly pushing yourself to do it.

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