Data Analyst and Optimisation Specialist

1 week ago


Cape Town, Western Cape, South Africa IOCO Full time
IOCO Graduate Data Scientist Job Opportunity

We are seeking a talented Data Analyst and Optimisation Specialist to join our team in Cape Town.

About the Role

This is a challenging opportunity for a Data Analyst and Optimisation Specialist who will provide advanced statistical analysis, forecasting, predictive modelling, simulation, and optimisation services to discover trends, opportunities, and threats and communicate findings to business users in order to answer business questions.

Key Responsibilities
  • Provide Business Insights: Deliver insightful reports and recommendations through advanced statistical analysis, forecasting, predictive modelling, simulation, and optimisation. Identify, explore, examine, integrate, and scrub data from multiple disparate sources to answer complex business questions.
  • Design Advanced Analytics Models: Develop sophisticated analytical models that will address key business questions or discover opportunities for improvement, increased revenue, or reduced costs.
  • Analyse Model Results: Interpret model results, communicate findings in commercial terms to business users, and ensure the business impact is clearly understood.
  • Communicate Effectively: Confidently and clearly communicate analytical results to both technical and non-technical audiences.
  • Solution Development: Recommend solutions for creating revenue and reducing costs/loss based on model results.
Requirements

To be successful in this role, you will require:

  • A minimum of 1 year's experience in advanced analytics, model building, and optimisation.
  • Experience with data manipulation and analysis using Python and SQL skills or equivalent analytical platforms.
  • In-depth knowledge of Data Warehousing and BI environments, strong theoretical and practical knowledge of advanced analytical techniques, including statistical methods, segmentation, experimental design, neural networks, data mining, and optimisation techniques.
  • The ability to identify which business problems will have the most value to the organisation if addressed through an advanced analytics solution.
  • Ability to deal with situations where there are a lot of unknowns.
Qualifications

You will need to hold a university degree in quantitative fields like Mathematics, Statistics, Operational Research, and Economics or equivalent industry training and experience.

Work Environment

This is a full-time position with a salary of approximately R550,000 per annum (based on the location and market rates), plus benefits.



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