Data Scientist

2 weeks ago

Johannesburg, South Africa PBT Group Full time

PBT Group has an opportunity for a Data Scientist to build and implement (ML) models to improve business processes resulting in efficiencies and cost savings. Develop data driven insights to help identify trends and opportunities and provide solutions based on these insights. Provide in depth analysis of data using data mining and profiling techniques to understand current business challenges and predict future needs. Effective communication of results to stakeholders.

**Duties**:

- Develop information driven insights to identify trends and opportunities and provide solutions based on these insights.
- Manage data analysis and interpretation including modelling and simulation.
- Drive the advanced analytics capability within the team and company.
- Devise and promote creative data visualization to derive actionable intelligence.
- Forecast the performance of data relative to business needs.
- Develop recommendations based on data interpretation and analysis to transform behaviours.
- Develop automated tools and dashboards with IT team to provide real-time insights to business data.
- Design data integration from multiple systems into manageable data warehouses and analytic data models.
- Utilize strong research or technical skills to conduct business or industry-wide analysis of current and emerging best practices that support analytics engagement.
- Proactively improve analytic approaches, methodologies, data and reporting capabilities.
- Translate data analytics findings into actionable business insights.
- Critically evaluate information gathered from multiple sources and reconcile conflicts.
- Develop and deliver compelling presentation using data and graphics to communicate insights and implications for decision making.
- Actively participate and influence continuous improvement to the organisations data warehousing and Business intelligence solutions with a motive for eliminating redundant and manual data extraction and processing.
- Extract meaning from complex data relationship and develop reports to enable effective use of the resulting knowledge.
- Develop information driven insights to identify trends and opportunities and provide solutions based on these insights.
- Manage data analysis and interpretation including modelling and simulation.
- Drive the advanced analytics capability within the team and company.
- Devise and promote creative data visualization to derive actionable intelligence.
- Forecast the performance of data relative to business needs.
- Develop recommendations based on data interpretation and analysis to transform behaviours.
- Develop automated tools and dashboards with IT team to provide real-time insights to business data.
- Design data integration from multiple systems into manageable data warehouses and analytic data models.
- Utilize strong research or technical skills to conduct business or industry-wide analysis of current and emerging best practices that support analytics engagement.
- Proactively improve analytic approaches, methodologies, data and reporting capabilities.
- Translate data analytics findings into actionable business insights.
- Drive change methodology and ensure implementation across all projects
- Work with business to develop and implement change management strategies and plans that maximize user adoption and proficiency and minimize resistance by increasing benefit realization, value creation, ROI and the achievement of business results and outcomes.
- Continuous improvement to ensure effective service
- Ensure statutory and legislative knowledge is always current in order to resolve customer complaints, to advise the business on corrective solutions to mitigate risks and to improve the customer experience whilst complying with governance requirements.
- Ensure adherence to organisational policies, practices and procedures.
- Identify solutions to enhance cost effectiveness and increase operational efficiency.
- Service delivery to ensure customer satisfaction
- Maintain service, quality and desired outputs across the business process by ensuring compliance to tactical policies, procedures and standards.
- Establish productive operational relationships with key stakeholders in the various channels and administrative teams.
- Develop work routines in line with operational plans / schedules in order to manage achievement of service delivery goals.
- Share knowledge on, and participate in the creation of new standards, control systems and procedures to maintain service delivery.
- Ensure cost efficiency through financial and corporate governance
- Contribute to the development and implementation of fit for purpose budgets.
- Manage supplier relationships, and budgets associated with projects.
- Manage quality people practices
- Align own behaviour with the organisation culture and values.
- Share and transfer product, process and systems knowledge to colleagues.
- Collaborate and work with the HR and IT teams to deliver required service levels.
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