Team Leader : Decision Science (Sandton)

Capitec; Gauteng; On-site; ZAR 800,000 - 1,200,000; Full time

Job summary

Join a leading banking institution as the head of a Decision Science team. You will utilize your extensive experience in analytics and leadership to guide the analysis of critical business data, ensuring alignment with organizational goals. This position not only requires a high level of technical expertise but also the ability to manage and cultivate a team to deliver actionable insights, impacting credit and risk strategies within the organization.

Qualifications

• Over 6 years' experience in analytical science roles with leadership experience.
• Deep understanding of statistical model development and machine learning principles.
• Experience in data mining and predictive modeling.

Responsibilities

• Lead a Decision Science team to oversee data analysis for business insights.
• Translate business data into strategic information for credit and risk indicators.
• Ensure alignment of delivery within objectives and standards of Decision Science.

Skills

Numerical Reasoning skills

Analytical Skills

Problem solving skills

Decision making skills

Researching skills

Presentation Skills

Planning, organising and coordination skills

Attention to Detail

Communications Skills

Interpersonal & Relationship management Skills

Leadership Skills

Education

Honours Degree in Mathematics or Statistics

Masters Degree in Mathematics or Statistics

Tools

SAS

SQL

R

Python

Job description

Apply By: We're on the lookout for energetic, self-motivated individuals who share our passion for service in the banking industry.

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Purpose Statement

To Lead a Decision Science team, prioritising and overseeing analysis to translate active business data into usable strategic information which informs the business regarding critical and measurable Credit and risk indicators.

To ensure that the delivery within the area of responsibility aligns with the objectives, plans, processes, and standards of Decision Science.

Qualifications (Minimum)

• Honours Degree in Mathematics or Statistics

Qualifications (Ideal Or Preferred)

• Masters Degree in Mathematics or Statistics

Experience and Knowledge

Minimum Experience

• Over 6 years' proven work experience in an analytical science role (of which, at least 3 years' experience in a Leadership or Management role requiring validating work)
• Extracting and aggregating data from large relational databases
• Data mining and predictive modelling
• Programming (SAS, SQL, R, Python)
• Stakeholder relationship engagement and management
• Responsibility for delivery in a fast-moving environment
• Developing scorecards from scratch

Minimum Knowledge

• Advanced analytics
• Interpretation of user requirements and translation into business requirements specifications (business analysis requirements gathering)
• Business acumen to identify the impact technical issues may have on design and delivery of solutions
• People management practices and principles
• Project management methodologies
• IT implementation cycle
• Credit cycle
• Best practices for Decision Science (such as reusability, reproducibility, continuous monitoring, etc.)

Technical Understanding

Deep technical understanding of state of the art statistical (predictive and classification) model development and deployment principles and techniques including traditional Scoring (logistic regression with binning and missing value replacement, reject inference), Machine Learning (neural networks, SVM, random forests, etc.), and Quantitative Analysis (time value of money, etc.).

Ability to teach these concepts to a broad technical audience, understanding underlying theory/principles and application of Machine Learning models/languages.

Ideal Experience And Knowledge

• Banking / Financial sector
• Credit environment / industry

Skills

• Numerical Reasoning skills
• Analytical Skills
• Problem solving skills
• Decision making skills
• Researching skills
• Presentation Skills
• Planning, organising and coordination skills
• Attention to Detail
• Communications Skills
• Interpersonal & Relationship management Skills
• Leadership Skills

Conditions of Employment

• Clear criminal and credit record

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