Current Vacancies at Experian

Job Description

Regulatory Compliance

• Ensure regulatory compliance for the SA market as well as our credit bureaus across Africa
• Together with Compliance, ensure timely submission of regulatory compliance reports and attend to any queries that may arise, with particular focus to the NCA; BEE; the Company’s Act; POPIA; PAIA.
• Act as first line of response to regulators in all markets we operate in
• Support compliance audits in all the markets we operate in

Legal

• To advise and assist staff and clients with regards to data access credit regulatory queries and give legal advice on related matters ie Reg 19(13), Prescribed Purposes
• Act as liaison between the legal team and internal clients to answer regulatory queries and be first point of contact
• Draft legal letters including termination and breach of contract letters
• Draft and maintain standard template letters for use by the business including confirmation of client status, deceased certification, bankruptcy certification, reckless lending investigations, complaints response letters
• Investigating unauthorised data access allegations
• Manage the legal email in-box

Governance

• Perform company secretarial functions for subsidiaries including maintaining company books, issuing share certificates etc
• Support Group company secretary in arranging board and shareholder meetings
• Act as company secretary for subsidiaries and maintain minutes
• Maintain the Share Register, Shareholder Detail Register, Resolution Register
• Establish and maintain a repository for all corporate documents relating to the company as well as our subsidiaries
• Establish and maintain an automated contracts management system for all contracts and other agreements
• As a dep company secretary, act as a trusted advisor for the board and management in terms of the Company’s Act
• Establish and maintain a well-functioning company secretary office

BEE

• Together with General Counsel Africa, set the BEE strategy and Implementation Plan to execute on the board approved strategy
• Prepare BEE verification audit prep files and verification readiness
• Act as first point of contact with BEE verification analysts
• Work with procurement; marketing; HR; finance; legal; sales and other affected departments in ensuring our BEE Targets are met and maintained
• Create a process to maintain

General Legal Department Management

• Maintain vendor packs to ensure timely implementation of contracts
• Update, maintain and ensure timeous submission to the risk department in relation to the departmental risk register for Legal, Risk, Compliance and DPO
• Maintain the departmental policies and ensure periodic updates take place as and when the time comes up for renewal or update

Required Key Skills (functional/technical)

• Functional
• Execution
• Adheres to company rules and procedures; executes plans with commitment and determination; achieves high quality results
• Systematic Approach
• Uses a methodical and systematic approach; plans ahead, defines clear priorities and allocate resources effectively
• Analysis and Judgment
• Quickly understands and analyses complex issues and problems; comes up with sound and rational judgments.
• Professional Expertise
• Demonstrates specialist knowledge and expertise in own area; participates in continuous professional development.
• Works independently and is a self-starter
• Effective Communication
• Communicates in a clear, precise and structured way; speaks with authority and conviction; presents effectively.
• Constructive Teamwork
• Co-operates well with others; shares knowledge, experience and information; supports others in the pursuit of team goals.
• Self-Development
• Is aware of own strengths and limitations and pursues learning and career development opportunities.

Technical

• MS Word
• MS Excel
• MS POwerPoint

Qualifications

• Legal bachelor’s degree
• Minimum 2 years’ experience in a legal office / position or role and preferably in the financial services industry
• Experience in company secretarial services.
• Experience in regulatory risk (compliance) and/or operational risk management and monitoring and/or business process auditing activities
• At least 2 years’ experience in the credit bureau industry
• Experience in assessing BEE requirements and maintaining BEE Scorecard for the company.
• Experience in the privacy data office

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What you’ll need to bring to the party

• Data management
• Team management
• Service Excellence/Customer Service
• Problem Solving
• Technical
• Planning and Organizing
• Project Management
• Communication

What you’ll be doing

Bottom-line Focus

• Focuses on bottom-line results, identifies potential risks and monitors the financial impact of own activities

Influence

• Makes an impact; convinces and persuades others; promotes plans and ideas successfully.

Networking

• Builds a useful network of contacts and relationships and utilizes it to achieve objectives.

Initiative and Responsibility

• Acts on own initiative, makes things happen and accepts responsibility for the results.

Organizational Awareness

• Understands the organization's informal rules and structures and utilizes political processes effectively to get things done

Execution

• Adheres to company rules and procedures; executes plans with commitment and determination; achieves high quality results

Systematic Approach

• Uses a methodical and systematic approach; plans ahead, defines clear priorities and manages resources effectively

People Management

• Provides team with a clear sense of direction, inspires and co-ordinates others and keeps them focused on the objectives.

People Development

• Develops people through delegation, empowerment and coaching; promotes career and self-development.

Qualifications

What is required

• Grade 12 - NQF Level 4
• 5 Years Advanced technical experience in SQL
• 2 years of SQL Programming – Proficient at query development, Stored Procedures, process optimization etc.
• BI skills – OLAP and OLTP data sets
• Data Modelling
• Data Warehouse
• Microsoft SQL Server – in depth knowledge of database configurations, tuning efficiency and ETL processes.
• Proficient in Microsoft Windows 8/10 and Windows Server.
• Proficient in Microsoft Office Suite.
• Tableau/BI skills advantageous.

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Work that matters - what you’ll be doing  

• A key component to your role will be the ability to influence and support at Executive level.  You will  help our leadership to get their teams  excited about our purpose, products and innovation within the business.
• You will partner with our global team to ensure that we have effective corporate communications in place to manage any corporate announcement and change initiatives as well as day to day operational communications.
• Partnering with our CEO and Executive Leadership team you will bring their agenda’s to life and help employees connect to them as leaders.
• You will run our communication channels, making sure we are being as innovative and creative as possible in bringing our communications to life.
• You will ensure that all of our employees are given the information they are need and understand what actions they need to take in their day to day roles
• Working across multiple time zones will mean that you will need to have a flexible and dynamic approach to work.  You can work from home or from one of our great offices when you need to collaborate with colleagues and partners. 
• We are looking for applications from candidates located in Europe, South Africa or India
• This is a great opportunity for an individual who is an experienced internal comms practitioner keen to grow and develop their career heading up a small regional communications function in FTESE 30 company

Qualifications

What you’ll need to bring to the role & Experian

• You will bring a balance of great technical communications skills (writing, presenting, campaign development, storytelling) with a strong strategic understanding and ability.
• Having previous experience leading communications in organisations, you will be experienced in successfully partnering with C suite leaders and CEOs. 
• You can confidently navigate a large corporate and matrixed organization.  Collaborating across a network of global and regional stakeholders.
• You will bring creativity and innovation to the way we communicate.  Looking for ways to humanise and personalise messages to help employees connect to our purpose and leaders.  
• You will have previous experience of working with EMEA and / or APAC audiences.  Understanding and appreciating the cultural nuances and the challenges of working across multiple countries.
• You will have a passion for developing and supporting your team members, having managed people in previous roles.  
• You will be able to coach and develop job specific and soft skills.

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Job Description

• To build and maintain efficient solutions for Experian systems.
• The position is focused on cutting-edge technologies working quickly, continuously looking at improving and implementing relevant technologies with a big drive towards automation, Big Data, and efficient process management.
• Current technologies used Azure Synapse, Apache Airflow, Spark, Python, EDB, RabbitMQ etc.
• The successful candidate will be expected to drive their solution end to end and to deliver high-quality products. Innovation is intrinsic to the department.
• The role requires one to participate in all phases of the software development lifecycle and coach developers.
• Create high-quality products that meet client needs and align with company strategy.
• This back-end development role focuses more on data ingestion and distribution.

Qualifications

• BSc in Computer Science, Engineering, or a relevant field
• +7 years’ experience in one or more programming languages, with +3 years of solid Python experience
• Minimum five years of databases and SQL experience
• Proven track record in solutions design
• Azure experience beneficial
• Experience with Setting up and deploying applications to run in docker (optional, including Kubernetes experience) on various hosts
• Experience in monitoring, optimising, and maintaining the above setup
• Five years of financial services industry experience (Advantageous)
• Five years Credit Bureau related experience (Advantageous)

Required Technical Skills:

• Object-Oriented Programming in Python
• SQL (92 standard minimum)
• DBMS (SQL Server, PostgreSQL, EDB)
• ETL and ELT experience
• Big data technologies
• Docker
• Continuous Integration (CI)
• Python programming
• Apache Airflow
• Azure
• Windows and Linux proficiency

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ANALYTICAL CONSULTING CAPABILITY (60%)

• Engage with clients, to identify problems and define, design and deliver analytics solutions.
• Ability to work on research and development projects and develop innovative analytical solutions and methodologies.
• Gathers data and information in a structured and consistent manner to meet project objectives.
• Machine Learning mold building skills
• Optimizing codes for ML
• Building packages for ML
• Write advanced code for ML algorithms
• Databricks knowledge
• Azure Cloud knowledge
• Setting up and/or optimizing Databricks
• Working with data and creating features from raw data
• Support the Global Consultancy Practice Team in conducting business reviews to define customer requirements.
• Present proposals to clients for analytics solutions, including recommendations.
• Define and design analytics solutions for new business and customer management, based on the Business Lines best practice solutions.
• Provide consultancy on potential broader strategies.
• Regularly presents to clients to ensure they understand the functionality and benefits of Business Lines analytics solutions in solving business problems.
• Effectively communicate solutions and business benefits to the client.
• Always displays a confident and professional manner
• Identification of broad business issues when in discussion with clients which can be resolved with the use of the Business Lines analytics solutions.
• Seek out opportunities that help grow the business.
• Knowledge of Analytical techniques and methodologies across credit risk, fraud and marketing (appropriate to the Business Line)
• Knowledge of Experian’s range of analytical products and services
• Ability to identify business problems that can be solved using a combination of data and analytics and translate this into compelling propositions for our clients

PROJECT MANAGEMENT (10%)

• Develop sound project proposals indicating client needs, consultant deliverables, and applicable fees
• Work closely with all elements of Experian expert teams (e.g. Project Managers, Designers, Consultants, Senior Consultants, Analysts and Business Development Managers) to ensure seamless delivery of projects

PRE-SALES AND SALES SUPPORT (15%)

• Support the conversion of major sales prospects, with increased emphasis on winning business from customers not presently serviced by Experian.
• Identifies the opportunities to deliver small to medium sized analytics solutions and consultancy projects to clients.
• Conduct feasibility studies in support of sales activities.
• Contribute to winning new business from new and existing customers – nurture and enhance existing client relationships; identify and progress opportunities to enhance existing solutions and cross sell other products and services.
• Specify initial product/service requirements for new clients.
• Develop and maintain strong relationships with key client contacts.
• Takes responsibility to produce proposals.

PERSONAL AND TEAM DEVELOPMENT (15%)

• Improve personal and professional competencies and business knowledge through continual learning.
• Own and action personal development plan.
• Keeps abreast of developments in the regulatory and compliance environment which affects our use of data and analytics
• Extend knowledge of Experian analytics solutions, products, services, clients and business processes.
• Extend VM and industry knowledge.
• Seek feedback to improve personal performance.
• Seeks to develop an effective and wide network of business contacts.
• Displays energy and enthusiasm for the ongoing success of the team.
• Participate in industry events, conferences and seminars.
• Ensure that potential learning from each project is maximised.
• Regularly participate in webinars and knowledge sharing sessions.
• Shared targets with Team Leader/Senior Consultants/Global Consultants to transfer knowledge.
• Mentoring and training of analysts in ML, Databricks or Azure Cloud environment

Qualifications

• Degree or equivalent standard, with a high mathematical content e.g. Mathematics, Statistics, Operational Research, Economics, Physical Sciences.
• Good understanding of key market sectors.
• Understanding of Experian analytics solutions capabilities, specific limitations and functions so that consultant can apply the solution.
• 7-10 years experience