Team Leader: Decision Science (Stellenbosch)

Capitec Client Care; Stellenbosch; On-site; ZAR 600,000 - 900,000; Full time

Job summary

A prominent banking institution seeks a leader for its Decision Science team in Stellenbosch. The successful candidate will utilize their extensive analytical and leadership experience to enhance credit and risk decision-making. This role demands a minimum Honours Degree in Mathematics or Statistics, coupled with proven managerial experience in an analytical field. The position offers an excellent opportunity to influence strategic business decisions in a dynamic environment.

Qualifications

• Over 6 years’ experience in analytical science roles with leadership experience.
• Expertise in data mining, predictive modeling, and stakeholder management.
• Deep understanding of statistical model development and machine learning.

Responsibilities

• Lead a team focusing on decision science, analysis, and data translation.
• Ensure delivery aligns with objectives and standards.
• Engage with stakeholders to communicate findings and implement solutions.

Skills

Numerical Reasoning

Analytical Skills

Problem Solving

Leadership

Communication

Interpersonal Skills

Education

Honours Degree in Mathematics or Statistics

Grade 12 National Certificate / Vocational

Masters Degree in Mathematics or Statistics

Tools

SAS

SQL

R

Python

Job description

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Date: 23 Jun 2025

Location: Stellenbosch, Western Cape, ZA

Company: Capitec Bank Ltd

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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
• 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
• 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 (e.g., reject inference), Machine Learning (neural networks, SVM, random forests, etc.), and Quantitative Analysis (time value of money, etc.) - and able teach to a broad technical audience
• Underlying theory / principles and application of Machine Learning models / language
  
  

Ideal Experience And Knowledge

• Banking / Financial sector
• Retail credit environment / industry (Credit cycle)
  
  

Skills

• Planning, organising and coordination skills
• Numerical Reasoning skills
• Attention to Detail
• Researching skills
• Analytical Skills
• Problem solving skills
• Decision making skills
• Presentation Skills
• Communications 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.

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