Intermediate Data Scientist

To plan, build, optimize, and implement innovative quantitative analytical methodologies, procedures, and products. To address business opportunities and problems, and implement business strategy, with minimal guidance. To maintain expert knowledge on relevant legislative amendments, industry best practices, and internal compliance procedures and requirements.

Requirements

• Ensure compliance with relevant statutory, legislative, policy, and governance requirements
• Maintain expert knowledge on relevant legislative amendments, industry best practices, and internal compliance procedures and requirements
• Implement and provide input into the development of governance and compliance procedures and processes
• Innovate and find the best fit solution for the situation
• Maintain ownership of models through regular audits and updates
• Plan and perform regular model updates
• Challenge current models to ensure relevance and accuracy of outputs
• Test outputs and accuracy of models to ensure relevance
• Use data and analytic insights to provide input into improving customer experience
• 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
• Provide input into creation of delivery plans for achievement of outputs / deliverables
• Assist in analysis of available data to identify information commercialization opportunities
• Assist in productionilisation of analytics in the approved FirstRand architecture
• Collaborate with numerous departments across the business
• Contribute to the development of core analytical capabilities or model libraries
• Determine the business questions that need to be answered and determine appropriate analytics models for utilization
• Source and do some preparation of relevant data sources for analysis
• 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
• Build models that analyze processes to recommend areas for optimization
• 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
• 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 which may lead to increased costs
• Manage costs or expenses within approved budget to achieve cost efficiencies
• Deliver against operational and cost targets
• Prioritise resource allocation to minimise and reduce wastage
• Develop, encourage, and nurture collaborative relationships across the FRG

Benefits

• Generous Paid Time Off
• 401k Matching
• Retirement Plan
• Four Day Work Week
• Generous Parental Leave
• Tuition Reimbursement
• Relocation Assistance