Head of Data and Analytics

17 hours ago

Cape Town, South Africa Prodigy Finance Limited Full time

**Prodigy Finance - Who are we?**

Prodigy Finance is a platform that delivers socially responsible financial services; making it possible for students from more than 150 countries to fulfil their dream of studying at the world’s top universities by financing their international postgraduate studies.

This borderless and innovative model enables education loan financing to students from across the globe, whilst using predicted post-degree affordability rather than present-day salary. Since 2007, Prodigy Finance has extended over US$1.4 billion through the platform to fund over 27,000 students.

We are funded by some of the best, pre-eminent institutions in the world including Index Ventures, Canadian Pension Fund, Balderton Capital, RMIH, Credit Suisse, the US DFC, CPPIB and Deutsche Bank.

**What will you do in this role?**

This role is perfect for an experienced Head of Data & Analytics or Head of Data Science who wants to supercharge their career by experiencing first-hand what it is like to be part of an energetic, extremely fast growing company.

The sense of impact and reward will be huge. You will help to build a product which makes a very real difference in the world. Be a part of delivering socially responsible financial services to the masses; make it possible for students from more than 150 countries to obtain the finance to fulfil their dream of studying at the world’s top universities and schools.

We are a committed team, focused on outcomes; this means that you are going to get exposure to all aspects of our business immediately. You’ll gain as much accountability as you can handle and have a huge influence on scaling the company.

One of our goals is to build one of the top FinTech teams and cultures anywhere in the world. This means putting a lot of time into ensuring we only hire people with exceptional potential and creating the best working environment possible. If you want to work somewhere where you're learning from some of the best brains in FinTech, this would be a good fit.

**What are some of the responsibilities of this role?**
- Manage, hire, retain and grow an amazing data focused Engineering and Analytics team
- Develop a strong data science capability within the department that can drive business value by implementing advanced data, mathematical and statistical models
- Lead the initiatives related to predictive and prescriptive analytics in order to increase the adoption of automated and embedded decision solutions
- Lead Data Architects and Data Engineers to architect and deliver the solutions that fulfil the business data requirements
- Support the Data Analysts in understanding business processes and to form meaningful partnerships with business stakeholders in order to extract maximum value from the analytics tools and data
- Manage the development of data-driven approaches for the purpose of generating business insights through data analytics, information visualisation, and addressing unanswered business issues in a proactive manner
- Build automated measurement, learning and analysis pipelines for business products, systems and processes
- Research and integrate relevant sources of data both inside and outside the business to enrich input to analysis and machine learning pipelines
- Educate and collaborate with Product Managers, Software Engineers and Operations Managers about the methods used by the Data Science team so that they can contribute to data-based learning within the organisation
- Ability to partner with Product and Business to promote a customer centric explorative process to data analysis and insights generation
- Ability to scale the data teams in line with our growth as a company
- Delivery of automated data science and analytics pipelines and visualisations
- Data engineering and data architecture evolution with data integrity as a key metric
- Educating other teams and spreading of a culture of measurement and data-driven learning within the business
- Ability to think strategically, deliver change incrementally and influence the culture of data as an asset
- Biassed towards action; able to generate ideas, experiment with them, test them, learn from them, improve them, implement them, automate them
- Mindfulness; be considerate of the implications of your work, really care about what you are doing and the impact of your contribution
- Problem-solving aptitude; able to research complex open-ended problems and prepare solutions that address them and are backed by data and solid theoretical models
- Excellent critical judgement; able to make good decisions, be trusted, respected and dependable, be proactive and responsive, ask the right questions, raise flags at the right time
- Be accountable for the team’s outputs and targets. Able to multitask and work in a high-pressured environment
- Ability to educate and train team members to ensure they are aware of the methods used by the team. Also, able to identify gaps in training knowledge and close

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