2023 Junior Data Scientist at BDO South Africa

Specification    
Reporting to the manager you will inter alia be responsible for:

• Identifying opportunities in which data science can aid/improve the project you are assigned to
• Working with stakeholders throughout the organization and with clients to identify opportunities for leveraging data to drive business solutions.
• Obtaining and analysing data from databases to drive optimization and improvement of client technology solutions.
• Assessing the effectiveness and accuracy of new data sources and data gathering techniques.
• Developing custom data models and algorithms to apply to data sets.
• Using predictive modelling to increase and optimize client experiences and other business outcomes.
• Coordinating with different functional teams to implement models and monitor outcomes.
• Developing processes and tools to monitor and analyse model performance and data accuracy.
• Identifying valuable data sources and automate collection processes
• Undertaking pre-processing of structured and unstructured data
• Analysing large amounts of information to discover trends and patterns
• Building predictive models and machine-learning algorithms
• Presenting information using data visualization techniques
• Proposing solutions and strategies to business challenges
• Collaborating with audit and product development teams
• Using strong business acumen, as well as an ability to communicate findings, and mine vast amounts of data for useful insights
• Using these insights to influence how an organisation approaches business challenges
• Using a combined knowledge of computer science and applications, modelling, statistics, analytics and maths to solve problems

Requirements    
Qualifications and Experience:

• Ideally an undergraduate degree and Honours in a quantitative field, e.g. Statistics, Engineering, Maths/Finance, Actuarial Science, BSc Computer Science, BCom Information Systems / Informatics
• A postgraduate degree in any of the above is advantageous, but not essential
• Proven experience working with statistics and programming languages
• Experience with machine learning modelling and software development/programming is advantageous, but not essential
• Experience/knowledge of data governance, data lineage and other data management principles

Competencies:

• Must be a team player
• Have a passion and/or interest in emerging technologies for example: machine learning, cloud, Internet of Things (IoT), Artificial Intelligence (AI) and robotics.
• Must be well-versed in SQL, Python, R or other coding languages
• Have a passion and/or interest in finance and the world of financial services, as this is a financial services-based position
• Professionalism
• Strong client orientation
• Attention to detail
• Ability to priorities and handle stress
• Task driven & delivery focused
• Ability to work with all levels within an organization
• Socially aware and able to work as part of a diverse team
• Must be interested to work with cloud-based technologies

BDO Core Competencies:

• Relationships and Collaboration
• Exceptional Client Service
• Business Growth
• Engaging people
• Leadership
• Quality, Risk management and Operational performance

Closing Date: 31st,October 2022