Analytics Specialist

6 days ago

Parow, South Africa The Foschini Group Full time

**Job ID**:15025**Position Type**:Full-Time**Job Function**:Financial Services / Analytics**Workplace Type**:Head Office**Division**:TFG Financial Services**Province**:Western Cape**Location**:Cape Town North**Suburb**:Parow (Parow)Position Description:
**A challenging opportunity has arisen within the Credit Department of TFG Financial Services for a curious, highly motivated individual to drive strategies, provide analytical support and to quantify strategic initiatives across new business and existing customer.**

**The successful individual will be working with senior members of the Credit Risk & Operations teams in order to**:

- Identify opportunities to grow new accounts across channels
- Optimise existing customer campaigns across credit products
- Influence credit marketing activities to improve credit sales
- Portfolio forecasting of account growth, turnover levers and profitability
- Propose, collate and track champion-challenger test results
- Develop buying position strategies that increase sales within risk mandate
- Perform deep-dive analysis using large datasets to help inform business decisions and explain adverse movements in the growth metrics
- Formulate and present findings to management

**Job description**
- Engage with relevant stakeholders to obtain key related information which may affect the test and/or test outcome
- Develop strategies to grow New Accounts within the legislative framework
- Providing analytical solutions to complex business problems
- Documentation of analytical processes and results, adhering to agreed documentation standards
- Effective communication and presentation of analytical results and credit-related topics to peers and relevant stakeholders
- Quarterly re-projections of active account growth
- Profitability tracking and identification of opportunities derived from this
- Data mining of credit bureau and other external data to provide insights and trends
- Extraction and preparation of data for internal development projects as well as outsourced solutions
- Ensuring appropriate statistical methodology and data mining / analytics techniques are applied to any modelling process to deliver and deploy robust and effective models where necessary
- Model tracking to ensure effective model life cycle management

**To take up this position you should have**:

- A degree in a numerate discipline, preferably Statistics / Mathematics / Operations Research / Engineering (Honours / Masters degree preferable)
- Knowledge and experience in statistical/data management software packages (SAS/SQL) Enterprise Miner would be advantageous
- Excel experience
- Knowledge of the credit industry and credit life cycle management is preferred
- Hands-on experience of large-scale customer database data interrogation and manipulation would be advantageous
- Experience with data mining and statistical techniques such as logistic regression, decision trees, cluster analysis etc. is preferred
- Excellent data interpretation skills
- Good strategic and conceptual abilities would be advantageous
- Advanced problem solving, judgment and self management skills

**Working as a Senior Credit Growth Analyst, you will have a strong ability to translate data into a story, be able to make recommendations based on findings and be a good team player. You will also need to be numerate with a strong commitment to the improvement of the credit risk strategy.**
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