Data Scientist_I

Description

Hello Future, Data Scientist I

Welcome to FNB Loans, the home of the #Changeables.

We design for the shapeshifters and deliver products and services that make us incredibly proud of the people that make it happen. We are creating a world class lending and credit risk capability, establishing the gold-standard through thought leadership and execution. As part of our credit community, you get to apply your skills to a diverse lending market, adapting and thriving while doing so.

We strive to cosistently develop better ways to partner with customers through lending, lifting society in doing so.

Role Purpose

To build, optimise and implement innovative quantitative analytical methodologies, procedures, and advanced mathematical models that provide analytical support and interpret insights, to address business opportunities and problems and implement business strategy, under guidance against predicted results and deliver according to set processes and procedures.

Are you someone who:

Innovate to improve customer experience by continuously looking for better and more efficient ways of doing things Be flexible and adapt to changing circumstances.

Deliberately seek diverse opinions, build on ideas and do not duplicate effort.

Participate in the innovation process in the business and contribute toward new innovations against objectives.

Execute own work in accordance with the organisational values and code of ethics.

Comply with and adhere to identified governance and compliance standards and escalate problems for investigation and resolution.

Identify and escalate risk as normal part of work.

Adhere to model building policies, standards, frameworks, and governance process.

Ensure own ethical usage of information that complies to restrictions applied for privacy and sensitivity classification Implement and adhere to Privacy business requirements, legislation and policy.

Report Information Privacy Incidents and escalate appropriately for resolution of Privacy and Protection.

Audit Findings, Complaints, Incidents, Investigations and Privacy and Protection Assessments.

Follow set delivery plans for achievement of outputs / deliverables in collaboration with business stakeholders to understand information requirements for strategy delivery and define metrics that track performance.

Participate in productionilation of analytics in the approved First Rand architecture by translating technical data information into practical business information that addresses identified needs.

Analyse information requirements, availability and quality of data to feed into management for resolution.

Collaborate with numerous departments across the business to aid them in the proper use of data to ensure delivery of desired operational results.

Participate in relevant project related to the business's overall analytical needs and opportunities.

Participate as SME for analytics applying own understanding of the operations of the business product or service.

Assist in determining the business questions that need be answered and determine appropriate analytics models for utilisation Source and extensive preparation (50%) of relevant data sources for analysis.

Translate business requirements into tangible models utlising own understanding of the business value of projects, models and processes.

Develop and apply analytical algorithms and methods to build, test and implement robust mathematical models and analytical solutions that address business problem, opportunities and improve business outcomes i.e. reduced risk and costs, increased profitability, optimised efficiency and to facilitate strategic decision-making.

Build models that analyse processes to recommend areas for optimisation to achieve cost savings, revenue generation or efficiency improvements for the business.

Document and audit relevant processes.

Document and implement models to address specific business requirements.

Conduct appropriate manipulation and analysis of data to pro-actively identify and meet needs of the business for the purpose of future work and to ensure high information-quality and reliability across the business.

Perform against predicted results and deliver…