Team Leader: Decision Science (Sandton)

Capitec Bank; Sandton; On-site; ZAR 800,000 - 1,100,000; Full time

Job summary

Capitec Bank is seeking a leader for its Decision Science team. The role requires an honours degree in Mathematics or Statistics and extensive experience in analytics and leadership. Responsibilities include overseeing data analysis for credit and risk management, ensuring delivery meets business objectives, and developing strategic information from data.

Qualifications

• Over 6 years’ proven work experience in an analytical science role.
• Experience in a Leadership or Management role.
• Developing statistical models and techniques.

Responsibilities

• Lead a Decision Science team and oversee analysis.
• Translate business data into strategic information.
• Ensure alignment with objectives and standards.

Skills

Numerical reasoning skills

Analytical skills

Problem solving skills

Decision making skills

Research skills

Presentation skills

Planning, organizing, and coordination skills

Attention to detail

Communication skills

Interpersonal & relationship management skills

Leadership skills

Education

Honours Degree in Mathematics or Statistics

Grade 12 National Certificate / Vocational

Tools

SAS

SQL

R

Python

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Purpose Statement

• To lead a Decision Science team, prioritizing 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
• Grade 12 National Certificate / Vocational

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.)
• 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.), and able to teach these to a broad technical audience
• 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
• Research skills
• Presentation skills
• Planning, organizing, and coordination skills
• Attention to detail
• Communication skills
• Interpersonal & relationship management skills
• Leadership skills

Conditions of Employment

• Clear criminal and credit record

Capitec is committed to diversity, and where feasible, all appointments will support the achievement of our employment equity goals.