A dynamic financial services platform invites an innovative and forward-thinking decision optimisation analyst to join its Cape Town offices. Your core role involves building predictive models to ensure more effective marketing, operations and credit risk departments. You will also be responsible for ad-hoc analysis to support strategic decision-making.

The successful candidate must have at least two years’ predictive modelling experience and possess a degree majoring in either statistics/actuarial/mathematics or engineering (undergrad the minimum accepted qualification).

Duties:

Model development

• Data Extraction and Manipulation.
• Recommendations on outcome definitions and Windows.
• Segmentation.
• Model Development (e.g. Regression).
• Validation.
• Model Documentation.

Optimisation strategy development

• Set up scenarios and constraints.
• Arrive at implementable solutions that add measurable business value.
• Specify implementation and test plans.
• Present recommendations to Credit Committee or decision makers in area of concern and get go ahead for implementation.
• Create specifications required for implementation.

Performance tracking and maintenance

• Monitor performance of strategies against champion and other strategies.
• Update models or strategies where required.
• Recommend rollout strategy for successful tests.

Ad-hoc analysis

• Provide analytical insight for ad hoc analytical tasks.

Requirements:

Qualifications

• A degree majoring in statistics/actuarial/mathematics or engineering.
• Undergrad is a minimum requirement, but preference will be given to post graduate qualifications.

Experience/skills

• Two to three years’ experience in a predictive model building role.

While we would really like to respond to every application, should you not be contacted for this position within 10 working days please consider your application unsuccessful.

When applying for jobs, ensure that you have the minimum job requirements. Only SA citizens will be considered for this role. If you are not in the mentioned location of any of the jobs, please note your relocation plans in all applications for jobs and correspondence. Please email a Word copy of your CV to

moc.nifatad@ellehcim

and mention the reference numbers of the jobs. We have a list of jobs on http://www.datafin.com. Datafin IT Recruitment – Cape Town Jobs.

Posted on 21 Sep 14:36