Fraud Analyst - Cape Town at Truworths

Job Description    

• Join South Africa’s leading fashion retailer and become part of a winning team. If fashion retail excites you, along with a fast paced, innovative and a highly competitive environment, then this position may well be for you.
• This position is based at our head office in Cape Town, CBD.

Key Responsibilities    

• The successful candidate will be responsible for ad hoc analyses; feature engineering, data preparation, development of statistical models, strategy development, monitoring and tracking.

Qualifications and Experience    

•  Minimum requirement of a BCom / BBusSci / BSc Actual Science / or similar qualification
•  Experience in conceptualizing, coding and implementing feature engineering
•  Experience working with large datasets and preparing data
•  SAS Base / enterprise Guide / SAS Viya programming experience
•  At least 2 years’ experience in building, implementing and using statistical models
•  Experienced Microsoft Office user
•  Experience with bureau data beneficial

Competencies    

•  High attention to detail driving a need for 100% accuracy
•  Able to manage effectively in a high volume, fast paced, error free environment
•  Excellent verbal, written and presentation communication skills required
•  Ability to extract, validate, clean and prepare data for modelling and reporting
•  Ability to prepare well structured, clear and concise deliverables, including presentations
•  Strong collaborative interpersonal skills – both win internal and external parties
•  High level of integrity and confidentiality
•  Ability to learn and to share findings with the team in a concise, clear manner
•  Be a self-starter