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Data Scientist Iii

4 months ago

Cape Town, Western Cape, South Africa Sanlam Full time

Who we are?- Sanlam Personal Loans (SPL) was established 23 years ago and is now part of a newly established Fintech business within the Sanlam Group on a mission to democratize financial advice and solutions for everyone across the African continent.

We exist to pioneer inclusive financial confidence helping people build strong foundations to bridge the gap in generational wealth. Our culture is that of agility and constant deployment, we believe in learning fast and learning forward.

Our aim is to provide a work environment where knowledge workers can accelerate the development of their ideas and bring innovation to market; at the same time provide a compelling career and development proposition that will enable them to realize their dreams.


What will you do?

  • To plan, build, optimise and implement innovative quantitative analytical methodologies, procedures, products and advanced mathematical models that provide analytical support and interpret insights, using advanced analytics technologies, to address business opportunities and problems and implement business strategy.
  • Innovate by finding the best fit solution for the situation such as the flexibility of delivery and customized solutions which result in more efficient outcomes.
    What will make you successful in this role?
  • Comfortable with ambiguity in an agile organization.
  • Passionate and enthusiastic about contributing to the success of the business cluster beyond one's own scope of work
  • A natural skill to lead and develop others and to create an inclusive environment
  • Managing projects with multiple stakeholders
  • Having a growth mindset
  • Have the ability to contribute to innovations and ideas
  • Being aligned to business values, Care, Collaboration, Innovation and Integrity


 Qualification
  • Relevant Post Graduate degree in Statistics, Data Science, Mathematics, Physics, Economics, Operations Research, Engineering, or a related quantitative field.


 Role and Responsibilities
  • Provide input into localisation of appropriate model building policies, standards, frameworks, and governance process and integration of business modelling and analytics value chain.
  • 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.
  • 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
  • Analyse available data to identify information commercialisation opportunities that have not been explored to address business needs and revenue options.
  • Productionize analytics 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.
  • Contribute to the development of core analytical capabilities or model libraries using advanced statistical, quantitative or econometric techniques and utilise as appropriate.
  • 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 overall analytical needs and opportunities.
  • Build models that analyse processes to recommend areas for optimisation to achieve cost savings, revenue generation or efficiency improvements for the business.


 Knowledge and Skills
  • Strong knowledge of financial services and credit.
years of work experience using analytics to solve product or business problems, coding (e.g SAS, SQL), querying databases or statistical analysis

  • MS Office, particularly Excel (advanced user and VBA)

Personal Attributes

  • Manages complexity
  • Contributing through others
  • Financial acumen
  • Contributing through others
  • Business insight
  • Contributing through others
  • Balances stakeholders
  • Contributing through others

Build a successful career with us

  • We're all about building strong, lasting relationships with our employees. We know that you have hopes for your future your career, your personal development, and for achieving great things. We pride ourselves on helping our employees to realise their worth. Through its business clusters Sanlam Retail Affluent and Retail Mass, Sanlam Corporate, Sanlam Emerging Markets, Sanlam Investments, Santam, Miway, as well as the Group Office the group provides many opportunities for growth and development.
    Turnaround timeOur commitment to transformation*
  • The Sanlam Group is committed to transformation and embracing diversity and our employment equity plan and targets will be considered as part of the recruitment process. This commitment is what drives us to achieve a diverse workplace with employment equity as a key goal to create an inclusive workforce, represen