Senior Data Scientist

7 months ago


Sandton, South Africa Absa Bank Limited Full time

Empowering Africa’s tomorrow, together one story at a time.
- With over 100 years of rich history and strongly positioned as a local bank with regional and international expertise, a career with our family offers the opportunity to be part of this exciting growth journey, to reset our future and shape our destiny as a proudly African group.Job Summary

The incumbent will be a member of the Analytics and Reporting Team within the Enterprise Risk Management (ERM) Function and will be required to work closely with the Credit Risk Team and Other functions within. This role is directly accountable to the CIB Enterprise Risk Head of Analytics & Reporting responsible for developing and managing the enterprise risk profile database and managing some risk committees that fall under the responsibility of Enterprise Risk.

**Job Description**:
The primary purpose of the role is to enhance efficiency in managing the enterprise risk profile through automation of database processes. In addition, develop data visualization for the sake of ease in decision making and influencing of the CIB strategy.

Key accountabilities:

- Build the ERM database in a manner that enables influence of analytics in CIB strategy review
- Develop methodical approach in remedying data quality issues for CIB
- Ensure that ERM database is RDARR compliant
- Build and automate risk (Credit, Market, & Operational) analytic dashboards
- Management of the CIB Portfolio Quality Review and management of stakeholders thereof
- Coaching of junior members within the Team

Qualifications and Experience:

- BSc Degree in Computer Science with Statistics
- Post-graduate qualification in Digital Business advantageous
- 4-5 years of SAS coding & Big Data Analysis
- Understanding of Credit Risk
- Previous experience with Hadoop advantageous
- 2-3 years Database Management experience

Education

Bachelor's Degree: Econometrics, Bachelor's Degree: Mathematics, Bachelor's Degree: Statistics
- Absa Bank Limited reserves the right not to make an appointment to the post as advertised_



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