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  • Posted: Feb 11, 2020
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    Tech-forward innovation leaders in the informal retail market. Through our FLASH Business platform, we strive to empower our Traders with a wide range of products and offer unrivalled convenience for consumers. Our retail infrastructure has enabled a money cycle thats enriching informal communities and provides a platform for safe, easy, convenient transa...
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    Data Scientist

    We are looking for a Data Scientist with a strong technical (IT) background to work. You will analyse large amounts of raw information to find patterns that will help improve business decisions.

    In this role, you should be highly analytical with a knack for analysis, math and statistics. Critical thinking and problem-solving skills are essential for interpreting data. We also want to see a passion for machine-learning and research.

    Your goal will be to help our company analyse trends and assist in the implementation of our AI strategy.

    Objectives of this Role

    • Collaborate with technical teams to determine data available/required for monitoring
    • Research and devise innovative statistical models for data analysis
    • Enable smarter business processes and implement analytics for meaningful insights
    • Keep current with technical and industry developments
    • Communicate findings to all stakeholders

    Responsibilities:

    • Identifying and integrating new datasets that can be leveraged to improve the detection processes and strengthen the overall business functions.
    • Work closely with the technical team to strategize and execute the development of data orientated products
    • Enhancing data collection procedures to include information that is relevant for building analytic systems
    • Processing, cleansing, and verifying the integrity of data used for analysis
    • Doing ad-hoc analysis and presenting results in a clear manner
    • Analyze data for trends and patterns, and interpret data
    • Implement analytical models into production by collaborating with software developers and machine learning engineers.

    Minimum Requirements:

    • B. Sc or B. Com in Computer Science, Applied Mathematics, Statistics, Data Science and Analytics or equivalent diploma
    • 2+ years of Big Data with project management experience in the fintech industry
    • Understanding of AI/ML.

    Knowledge / Skills:

    • 3 to 4 years’ experience in data intensive industries such as banking or financial services is preferred
    • Proficiency with data mining, mathematics, and statistical analysis
    • Advanced pattern recognition and predictive modelling experience
    • Experience with coding languages and data science packages such R,  Python (Pandas, NumPy, Jupyter notebooks), Java, etc. Excellence in at least one of these is highly desirable
    • Experience with cloud-based services such as Azure, AWS, etc
    • Proficiency in using query languages such as SQL
    • Experience with Excel, PowerPoint, PowerBI
    • Comfort working in a dynamic, fast moving company

    Attributes:

    • Self-motivated and assertive
    • Strong analytical ability
    • Strong verbal and written communication/ presentation skills;
    • Team player and ability to operate independently
    • Good interpersonal skills
    • Trustworthy
    • Ability to prioritise
    • Ability to work in a pressured environment
    • Deadline driven

    Method of Application

    Interested and qualified? Go to Flash Group on www.linkedin.com to apply

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