Decision Optimisation Analyst at DirectAxis

Job description

The core responsibilities consist of building predictive models to assist marketing, operations and credit risk departments. Ad hoc analysis work to support strategic decisions will also form part of responsibilities.

Requirements

Minimum

A degree majoring in Statistics, Actuarial, Mathematics or Engineering preferred. Undergrad is a minimum requirement, but preference will be given to post graduate qualifications.

Experience

2 -3 years’ experience in a predictive model building role

Duties & Roles

• Model Development
• Data Extraction and Manipulation
• Recommendations on outcome definitions and Windows
• Segmentation
• Model development (e.g. regression)
• Validation
• Model documentation
• Optimisation Strategy Development
• Set up scenarios and constraints
• Arrive at implementable solutions that add measurable business value
• Specify implementation and test plans
• Present recommendations to Credit Committee or decision makers in area of concern and get go ahead for implementation
• Create specifications required for implementation
• Performance Tracking and maintenance
• Monitor performance of strategies against champion and other strategies
• Update models or strategies where required
• Recommend rollout strategy for successful tests
• Adhoc Analysis
• Provide analytical insight for ad hoc analytical tasks