AVP, Data Analytics

OCBC Malaysia; Malaysia; On-site; MYR 180,000 - 240,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Competitive base salary

Flexible benefits

Learning & development opportunities

Wellbeing programs

Job summary

OCBC Bank is hiring a Data Analytics AVP to collaborate with Wholesale Banking, translate data into insights, and drive data-driven decisions across client coverage, lending, and risk management.

You will partner with senior stakeholders to deliver analytics use cases, build dashboards, and advance predictive analytics capabilities in a dynamic, transformation-focused environment.

Qualifications

• Degree in mathematics, statistics or computer science.
• Minimum 5 years of data analytics experience, preferably in sales/marketing.
• Banking domain knowledge in loans or credit risk is helpful.
• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills with clear communication.
• Experience with Python is required.

Responsibilities

• Partner with Wholesale Banking stakeholders to identify opportunities and growth levers.
• Leverage internal and external data to uncover trends and risks.
• Conduct analyses and translate findings into actionable recommendations.
• Develop analytical frameworks, dashboards and visualizations for decisions.
• Drive end-to-end analytics use cases from problem definition to impact.
• Collaborate with data engineers, risk teams and business stakeholders.

Skills

Python

Stakeholder management

Data analytics

Statistical modeling

Education

Quantitative field degree

Job description

WHO WE ARE:

As Singapore’s longest established bank, we have been dedicated to enabling individuals and businesses to achieve their aspirations since 1932. How? By taking the time to truly understand people. From there, we provide support, services, solutions, and career paths that meet their individual needs and desires. Today, we’re on a journey of transformation. Leveraging technology and creativity to become a future-ready learning organisation. But for all that change, our strategic ambition is consistently clear and bold, which is to be Asia’s leading financial services partner for a sustainable future. We invite you to build the bank of the future. Innovate the way we deliver financial services. Work in friendly, supportive teams. Build lasting value in your community. Help people grow their assets, business, and investments. Take your learning as far as you can. Or simply enjoy a vibrant, future-ready career. Your Opportunity Starts Here.

Job Description Rank: Assistant Vice President, Data Analytics. Reports to: Head, Data Analytics.

Why Join At OCBC Wholesale Banking

data is at the heart of how we make smarter decisions, deepen client relationships, and identify new growth opportunities. We are building a data-driven organization where analytics shapes strategy, commercial decisions, and client engagement. As a Data Analyst, you will work on high-impact business problems across all product lines and wholesale banking segments. You will partner closely with business leaders to uncover opportunities, generate actionable insights, and drive measurable outcomes. Beyond traditional analytics, you will have opportunities to explore advanced analytics, predictive modelling, and machine learning use cases that support the next stage of our Wholesale Banking transformation. If you enjoy solving complex business challenges, influencing decision‑making through data, and seeing your work translate into real business impact, we'd love to speak with you.

How you succeed

Success in this role requires a combination of analytical rigor, business curiosity, and strong stakeholder management skills. You will be expected to frame ambiguous business problems, translate them into analytical hypotheses, and deliver insights that influence commercial and risk decisions. You will work closely with senior stakeholders, relationship managers, and product teams to identify opportunities, validate ideas through data, and drive analytical use cases from concept to implementation. The most successful candidates are intellectually curious, highly structured in their thinking, and motivated by solving real‑world business problems. They combine consulting‑style problem‑solving with strong technical capabilities and continuously seek opportunities to automate, scale, and improve how decisions are made.

What you do

Partner with Wholesale Banking stakeholders to identify business opportunities, pain points, and growth levers across client coverage, lending, and risk management.

Leverage internal and external data sources to uncover trends, opportunities, and emerging risks.

Conduct deep‑dive analyses and translate findings into actionable recommendations for business and management teams.

Develop analytical frameworks, dashboards, and visualizations that enable data‑driven decision‑making.

Drive end‑to‑end analytics use cases from problem definition and data exploration through implementation and impact measurement.

Work with large and complex datasets to generate insights that improve client acquisition, portfolio growth, and relationship management strategies.

Collaborate with data engineers, risk teams, and business stakeholders to improve data quality, accessibility, and usability.

Explore predictive analytics and machine learning approaches to enhance business outcomes and decision‑making processes.

Support the development of analytical assets, models, and reusable frameworks that can be scaled across the Wholesale Banking franchise.

Who you are

• A degree in a quantitative field such as mathematics, statistics, or computer science
• Possess overall 7-8 years’ work experience with at least 5 years of experience in data analytics, preferably in a sales or marketing context
• Possessing banking domain knowledge specifically with strong familiarity in analytics for loans and credit risk is helpful
• Possess strong analytical and problem‑solving skills, with the ability to communicate complex data insights in a clear and compelling way
• Experience with Python
• Strong collaboration and communication skills, with the ability to work effectively with sales teams and other stakeholders

What we offer:

• Competitive base salary.
• A suite of holistic, flexible benefits to suit every lifestyle.
• Community initiatives.
• Industry‑leading learning and professional development opportunities.
• Your wellbeing, growth and aspirations are every bit as cared for as the needs of our customers.

Let’s build the bank we need for the future we want. Find the best version of yourself in a friendly, supportive team. Build lasting value in your community. Help people grow their assets, business, and investments. Take your learning as far as you can. Or simply enjoy a vibrant, future‑ready career. Your Opportunity Starts Here.

As the longest established Singapore bank, formed in 1932 from the merger of three local banks, we have grown from strength to strength to become a regional financial services group. With a deep history in Asia, we offer the most comprehensive coverage across ASEAN and Greater China, complemented with a presence in the leading economies of New York, London and Sydney. We are the second largest financial services group in Southeast Asia by assets with one of the world’s highest credit rating (Aa1 by Moody’s and AA- by both Fitch and S&P). We offer private banking services through our wholly‑owned subsidiary, Bank of Singapore, which operates on a unique open‑architecture product platform to source for the best‑in‑class products to meet its clients’ goals. Our insurance subsidiary, Great Eastern Holdings, is the oldest and most established life insurance group in Singapore and Malaysia.