Data Scientist III at FNB South Africa

Are you someone who can:

• Lead a small team of high performing entry to senior level Data Scientists in Credit Collections Analytics environment
• Use statistical methods and tools to analyse data and identify trends, pattens and draw insights
• Build, implement and monitor a range of data driven statistical models and collections strategies to improve credit collections processes, customer experience and business profitability
• Create delivery plans for achievement of outputs / deliverables in collaboration with business stakeholders to understand information requirements for strategy delivery and define metrics that track performance
• Drive project planning, prioritizing and efficient project delivery
• Build strategic solutions that analyze processes to recommend areas for optimization to achieve cost savings, revenue generation and efficiency improvements for the business
• Adhere to model building and operational policies, standards, frameworks, and governance process
• Plan and perform regular collections strategy updates that capture evolving business trents
• Drive process automation, optimization and productionalize existing and new business strategies and models into relevant platforms
• Foster a culture of learning, upskilling and excellence withing your high performing team
• Foster strong relationships with stakeholders, building trust and ensuring effective communication
• Continuously challenge the status quo and contribute to the innovation and strategic direction of the department
• Ensure own ethical usage of information that complies to restrictions applied for privacy and sensitivity classification
• Collaborate with numerous departments across the business to improve processes and eliminate duplication of efforts
• Build and sustain collaborative working relationships with relevant peers and stakeholders to achieve productivity synergies
• Serve as SME for analytics applying own understanding of the operations of the business product or service
• Implement Machine learning mathematical algorithms and automation techniques using open-source programming languages such as SAS or Python libraries
• Challenge current models to ensure relevance and accuracy of outputs
• Take all necessary actions to ensure compliance with relevant statutory, legislative, policy and governance requirements in area of accountability
• Ensure compliance is adopted in terms of systems and procedures as laid out by business
• Document developed models, business processes, project specifications to address specific business requirements

You will be an ideal candidate if you:

• Hold a Bachelor’s degree in Actuarial Science, Quantitative Risk, Mathematics, or Statistics or similar
• Have a Honours or Master’s Degree (advantageous)
• Have 5-8 years' experience in a similar role with leadership experience
• Are proficient in SAS and SQL
• Are experienced in credit collections
• Have experience of collections operational processes
• Understand the credit life cycle
• Understand statistical models
• Have knowledge of machine leaning methodologies data and analytics
• Have strong stakeholder management skills
• Derive insights from data
• Have secured lending collections experience

You will have access to:

• Opportunities to network and collaborate
• Challenging Working
• Opportunities to innovate

End Date: July 31, 2025