Quantitative Analyst I

2 weeks 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 employees 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?

  • This role reports to SPL's Growth Head who plays a pivotal role in the performance growth of SPL via the marketing and sales functions. This role will be required to build, optimise and implement innovative quantitative analytical methodologies, procedures, and advanced mathematical models that provide analytical support and interpretable insights, to address business opportunities and problems and implement business strategy, under guidance against predicted results and deliver according to set processes and procedures. Quantifies the accuracy metrics of the analysis and presents and depicts the rationale of their findings in easy to understand terms for business.
    What will make you successful in this role?
  • Excellent communication skills, both written and verbal.
  • Comfortable with ambiguity in a fluid organization.
  • A natural skill to engage with people
  • A high level of attention to detail with excellent organizational skills.
  • Passionate and enthusiastic about excellence and attention to detail.
  • Managing projects with multiple stakeholders
  • Being aligned to business values, Care, Collaboration, Innovation and Integrity


 Knowledge and Skills
  • Strong knowledge of financial services.
  • Statistical or mathematical modelling skills
  • Understanding of modelling and rating process
  • Degree or equivalent Diploma in Statistics / Mathematics
  • A strong command of programming languages, such as Python, C#, and SQL, as well as statistical analysis tools, such as R, Matlab, and SAS.
  • MS Office, particularly Excel (advanced user)


 Roles and Responsibilities
  • Build and maintenance of Marketing, Operational and Digital Fulfilment performance dashboards,
  • Creation of Trigger events that drive realtime strategic interventions,
  • Automation of performance dashboards in collaboration with BI,
  • Identification of market trends and the provision of actionable insights to the SPL management team,
  • Tracking of performance measures post the implementation of strategic business innovations,
  • Development of profitability models to enable and drive growth initiative prioritisation,
  • Identify opportunities to drive cost saving, revenue driving and efficiencybased improvements for the business


 Qualification and Experience
  • Advanced Diplomas/National 1st Degrees in Mathematics Statistics/Mathematics/Econometrics/Finance/Actuarial Science or related quantitative discipline
  • Honours is preferred
years min experience

Personal Attributes

  • Decision quality
  • Contributing independently
  • Financial acumen
  • Contributing independently
  • Balances stakeholders
  • Contributing independently
  • Business insight
  • Contributing independently

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 of achieving great things. We pride ourselves in helping our employees to realise their worth. Through its five business clusters
  • Sanlam Fintech, Sanlam Life and Savings, Sanlam Investment Group, Sanlam Allianz, Santam, as well as MiWay and 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, representative of the demographics of our society as well as people with disabilities.

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