We invest in and operate high-potential businesses in markets with historically low levels of client service and trust, we currently searching for a Data Scientist / Quantitative Analyst/ Predictive Modelling to be part of the team.
The incumbent be responsible for maintaining, re-calibrating, developing and deploying new predictive and prescriptive models
Requirements:
- 4+ years’ experience
- Honour’s degree in a mathematical, statistical or actuarial field
- Python
- SAS (Base, Enterprise Guide and Enterprise Miner) a PLUS
- Excel
- Manage all aspects of current machine learning models.
- Maintain and re-calibrate current scorecards and/or predictive models
- Develop new predictive models
- Utilises advanced data analytics and mining techniques to analyse data, assessing data validity and usability; reviews data results to ensure accuracy; and communicates results and insights to stakeholders
- Identifies trends, patterns, relationships and discrepancies in data and determines additional data needed to support insight. Processes, cleanses, and verifies the integrity of data used for analysis
- Identifying, interpreting & explaining the factors giving rise to specific business outcomes
- Predicting & forecasting probable future business outcomes
- Identifying key factors of business operations to transform/eliminate/introduce in order to improve business outcome
- Develop, maintain and refine advanced mathematical and statistical models pertaining to various aspects of the business
- Apply various supervised and un-supervised learning techniques to various problems
- Predictive and Prescriptive modelling
Reference Number for this position is GZ59760 which is a permanent position based in Johannesburg offering a cost to company salary of R850k per annum negotiable on experience and ability. Contact Garth on garthz@e-merge.co.za or call him on 011 463 3633 to discuss this and other opportunities.
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