Senior Specialist: Quantitative Analyst

2 weeks ago

Midrand, South Africa Vodafone Full time

**.**:
**When it comes to putting people first, we're number 1.**

The number 1 Top Employer in South Africa.
Certified by the Top Employer Institute 2024.

**Role Purpose/Business Unit**:
**Your responsibilities will include**:
**Advance Analytical Support**:

- Collect, integrate, and store raw data from different sources into Teradata platform in collaboration with Big Data to facilitate insight building
- Create and set up automated and optimised tables in Teradata to support daily and monthly automation
- Build and automate budget models and/or daily and month-end reporting
- Seek opportunities to improve business processes; models and systems by identifying and recommending effective ways to operate and adding value to Prepaid and FBP team
- Contribute to the development of differentiated; superior solutions that meet stakeholder and business requirements through analytical insights
- Supporting business continuity plans through upskilling junior team members and knowledge accessibility, through the creation of centralised data repositories for “how to” manuals, industry trends and best practice templates
- Building financial models, analysing customer trends/behaviour
- Discovering patterns in large data sets involving methods at the intersection of machine learning, statistics, econometrics, and database systems
- Identify key trends - identify & predict impact of potential risk factors
- Identify causal impact and attribution
- Analyse POCs and market tests - Post implementation reviews on products/customer responses/pricing
- Model and predict future performance of users and/or products.
- Utilisation of intelligent methods to extract data patterns — the overall goal of which is to extract information from a dataset, and transform it into an understandable structure for further use in terms of quantifying financial impact
- Perform sensitivity analysis by stress testing models

**Driving Business Impact**:

- Collaborate and work closely with cross-function business partners to identify performance gaps & approach problem-solving in a structured manner.
- Create insightful presentations and analysis that tell a story with focus on insights and actions, not just data
- Synthesize methodology and data into actionable business strategy and communicate findings to product, sales, and management teams - drive action and subsequent tracking, with support for implementation

**Month End**:

- Customer analytics on Prepaid P&L movements to explain financial impacts - analysis of surplus
- Pro-actively identify key risks on the basis that it will potentially impact performance
- Analysis of B/S provisions & movements on loyalty & deferrals on a segment and per customer level
- Ad-hoc resolution of queries - in support of month-end reporting

**Monitor and evaluate implemented strategies and models. Including**:

- Campaigns - ATL and BTL
- Performance of and impact on strategic pillars - monitoring, analysing, synthesising, and communicating, with commercial teams
- Support planning cycles and Long-Range Planning financial modelling
- Provide the CBU executive team and Vodacom South Africa finance team with support in respect of financial reporting, planning and analysis for Prepaid CBU (P&L, A&R, Terminals)
- Communicate findings and make recommendations to stakeholders across the business.
- Manage the financial budgeting and forecasting processes
- Deliver high quality reporting and financial planning to ensure CBU meets its objectives and financial targets
- Support central FP&A to ensure overall plan for CBU is consistent with Company targets and plan
- Engagement with key stakeholders for information into budget
- Rolling forecasts and scenario modelling - engage and challenge stakeholders in integrating current trends, future product rollouts and initiatives, supported by detailed driver-based modelling
- BSc (Actuarial/Statistics/Applied Mathematics, CompSci), BScEng
- Experience in data analytics and financial modelling.
- 5+ years experience
- Proficient in statistical tools like SAS, R etc.
- Advanced skills in Excel, Word and PowerPoint, SQL, SAS, R.

**Job Related Skill**:

- External perspective and appreciation of macro-economic environment.
- Business leadership and transformation.
- Adaptability.
- Relationship Management.
- Business & Commercial Acumen.
- Strong analytical skills.
- Effective communication and influencing skills.
- Resilience.
- Ownership and drive for impact.
- Attention to detail & Quality conscious.
- Disciplined & Deadline driven.
- Financial analysis & interpretation.
- Report writing.
- Narrative building
- Business planning.
- Performance Monitoring.
- Problem solving ability
- Track record with large and complex data sets
- Predictive modelling using several techniques
- NPV models to financially quantify strategies and business cases.
- Presentation skills.
- Clear communicator, written and oral
- Ability to engage effectively with senior leadership team

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