Principal Specialist Data

1 week ago


Midrand, Gauteng, South Africa Vodafone Full time

Role purpose:

This role is responsible for advanced and exploratory data analytics, modelling and insights to:
Enhance marketing efforts, campaign efficacy and portfolio performance
To drive business growth and profitability
To monitor product performance, support product development, and product enhancements through advanced analytics and insights
To highlight process inefficiencies
Partner with Qlik developers and solutions architectures to design analytics solutions
To make data driven adjustments through monitoring and driving insight that enable models that improve product performance (scaling), risk and create efficiencies
To ensure reporting processes are optimised, through scripting and automation
To support with performance monitoring for all lending products
To act as Data Steward, ensuring all data governance and controls are in place
To partner with Big Data and IT in the customer 360 data models and analytic tools
To collaborate with cross-functional teams and external teams to drive the growth of lending products through the development of data solutions and insights
Extract and analyse raw data on an ad-hoc basis

Your responsibilities will include:

Reporting & analytics:
Ensure that performance monitoring is in place for all products; with desired cadence and frequency

Data modelling:
Build complex data models, while optimising the efficiency and quality of data collection.

BI Solutions:
Partner with Qlik developers and solution architects to design transformational analytical solutions

Predictive forecasting:
Incorporate predictive forecasting to enhance performance management and maintain models to improve forecast accuracy

Actionable Insights:
Deliver daily and monthly insights from data models to support commercial action and financial steering

AI into BI:
Incorporate new technologies such as machine learning and robotics to increase process efficiencies, enhance predictive forecasting and improve quality of insights

Honours/Masters in quantitative fields like Mathematics, Statistics, Economics, Computer Science Engineering, Artificial Intelligence, Big Data, or related disciplines.
A minimum of 5 years' experience in delivering solid commercial impact advanced analytics projects.

Expertise in data manipulation:
use of structured data tools (e.g. SQL), & unstructured data tools and platforms (e.g., Hadoop, Spark, NoSQL)
Expertise in major statistical modelling software packages (e.g., R, SAS) and multivariate techniques (e.g. k-means segmentation, multiple regression, factor analysis, time-series forecasting) - preferred

Core competencies, knowledge, experience:

Intellectual curiosity, along with excellent problem-solving and quantitative skills, including the ability to disaggregate issues, identify root causes and recommend solutions
Experience of working on complex data modelling projects to support strategic, financial and regulatory mandates
8 years experience required
Advanced SQL skills including extensive experience querying large, complex data sets

Skillset:
R, Python, SQL

Experience in working in visualisation tools like Qlik Sense or PowerBI
Distinctive communications skills and ability to communicate analytical and technical content in an easy to understand way.
Capable of working under pressure, with stakeholders across many disciplines

Closing date for Applications
:21 March 2023
The base location for this role is
Midrand, Vodacom Campus.
The Company's approved Employment Equity Plan and Targets will be considered as part of the recruitment process. As an Equal Opportunities employer, we actively encourage and welcome people with various disabilities to apply.
Vodacom is committed to an organisational culture that recognises, appreciates and values diversity & inclusion.

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