Senior Data Analyst

Boardroom Appointments; Johannesburg; On-site; ZAR 300 000 - 400 000; Full time

Job summary

A leading recruitment agency in South Africa is seeking a skilled data analyst with over 5 years of experience in credit risk analysis. The ideal candidate holds a bachelor's degree in Information Technology and is proficient in Python and SQL. This role involves sourcing and analyzing data to enhance credit risk models and making informed risk decisions related to finance and investment banking. A strong understanding of data integrity and statistical analysis is essential.

Qualifications

• Minimum 5-7 years experience in collecting and analyzing critical business data.
• Highly advanced computer skills required for the job.
• 3-5 years experience with credit risk data and terminology within Corporate Investment Banking.

Responsibilities

• Source, analyze, provision, and report data to internal clients in a timely manner.
• Enhance CIBs Credit Risk models and manage credit risks.
• Quantify and optimize risk decision-making related to Counterparty and Sector-specific risks.

Skills

Python

SQL

Data Analysis

Statistical analysis

Data Integrity

Metadata management

Functional Analysis

Education

Bachelor's degree in Information Technology / Information Systems / Computer Science

Job description

• Minimum requirement is a bachelors degree in Information Technology / Information Systems / Computer Science or related field
• Python and Angula experience
• 5-7 years Collecting and analysing critical business data, transforming data and maintaining high levels of integrity in data management.
• Data sharing, sourcing data from third parties for validation purposes and as well as the service delivery of analysed critical data to business.
• 5-7 years experience and daily usage of programming in SQL, structured query language, and other common programming languages.
• Highly advanced computer skills are required for this job.
• Understands business trends and the direction technology must take to support the business.
• 3-5 years experience with and understanding of credit risk data and terminology within Corporate and Investment Banking.
• Understands CIBs products and services, and basic business processes.
• Data Analysis
• Competency Description: Ability to analyse statistics and other data, interpret and evaluate results, and create reports and presentations for use by others.
• Data Integrity
• Competency Description: The ability to ensure the accuracy and consistency of data for the duration that the data is stored as well as preventing unintentional alterations or loss of data.
• Metadata management
• Competency Description: The knowledge and understanding of the IT systems and processes that are available to be used for the sharing, storing and retrieval of information in the organisation.
• Statistical and mathematical analysis
• Competency Description: The ability to build, analyse and interpret numerical and non-numerical data to determine potential risk exposure and statistical inferences to inform business decisions.
• Functional Analysis and UAT
• Competency Description: Skills and knowledge of activities, tasks, practices and deliverables to analyse and translate client needs and test the function of the system against the functional requirements.
• Write Code
• Competency Description: Ability to write programming code based on a prepared design.

Responsibilities

• To source, analyse, provision and report data to internal clients, timeously, in the necessary format and of outstanding quality, to contribute towards the creation / enhancement of CIBs Credit Risk models and programmes, and in subsequent appraisal of results, to quantify and manage credit risks and optimise risk decision-making associated with Counterparty, Transactional, Country/Sovereign, Industry/Sector specific risk.