Senior Data Scientist - Cape Town, South Africa - Project Management Connection

Project Management Connection
Project Management Connection
Verified Company
Cape Town, South Africa

1 week ago

Thabo Mthembu

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About the Job:


  • Personal Finance is looking for a suitably qualified individual to join the Channel Finance team. This role has accountability for monitoring and review of remuneration and incentive schemes within the Personal Finance Sales and Distribution channels. The role will require various financial modeling of new schemes, making sure the strategic outcome of the business is achieved within the available funding. It will also require the incumbent to monitor existing schemes monthly, provide insights and give input into the design of new remuneration and incentive schemes across channels. This role will provide exposure to senior management and will require you to partner closely with a range of teams across Personal Finance, including distribution channels, strategy, operations, human capital, etc. The incumbent is individually accountable for achieving results over periods of 3 months to1 year.

Key Result Areas:


  • Financial modelling of new business initiatives
  • Understanding and interpreting business requirements and translating them into analytical reporting
  • Produce regular analysis of how the rem and incentive payments compare to the expectations/models
  • Translate data into insights. Present insights to business to enable strategic decisionmaking process.
  • Design models that will track various metrics and schemes across the business (actual vs planned design outcomes)
  • Support the Head of Remuneration by providing input designing future fit remand incentive models to achieve the strategic objective of PF supported by field research and market insights and ensuring legislative compliance
  • Responsible for building strong working relationships with internal clients

Personal Attributes

  • Numeracy
  • Analytical
  • Ability to work on a wide range of deliverables at once
  • Good communication skills both written and verbal
  • Good interpersonal skills and building relationships across multi discipline functions
  • Business acumen
  • Selfstarter

Qualifications and Experience:


  • Newly qualified CA / Actuary / Engineer
  • 4 years' experience in financial industry Marketing and sales knowledge/ experience preferable
  • Selfstarter
  • Strong relationship building at various level of stakeholder management
  • Business acumen
  • An established track record of experience in working with big data
  • Experience and knowledge of the distribution of Personal Finance products is advantages

Competencies:


Strategic

  • Identifies, understands and acts on broader opportunities in order to drive longerterm valueadding change. Identifies and acts on market and/or competitor trends/opportunities to set, develop and drive out value adding change. Is able to understand, identify and act on broader opportunities in order to drive longerterm, valueadding change. Applies judgment effectively. Identifies and acts on market and/or competitor trends/opportunities to set, develop and drive out strategic value adding change.

Leading with Influence

  • Influences and rallies people behind common goals and inspires others to exceed expectations. Actively supports the growth and performance of people around them. Communicates clear strategies and objectives for own function.

Collaboration (Relating)

  • Proactively establishes and maintains relationships. Values driven in relating to others. Engenders trust, respect and the building of meaningful relationships across a variety of contexts. Able to handle a wide range of relational challenges including conflict and confrontation to collaborate across boundaries.

Customer First

  • Puts the customer at the heart of business decisions and drives to improve value for customers. Builds inspiring customer relationships. Being a customer champion and being responsive to customer needs so as to improve our speed to market.

Execution

  • Displays consistent energy, drive and perseverance in order to deliver results. Demonstrates a willingness to take calculated risks to achieve stretch performance goals.

Innovation (Perspective)

  • Demonstrates ability to relate to challenges from a range of diverse but relevant perspectives. Generates creative/outofthebox solutions. Challenges the status quo and/or demonstrates ability to relate to challenges from arrange of diverse but relevant perspectives. Generates new perspectives that allow a more creative approach to be followed. Willing to take calculated risks when introducing novel ideas.

Personal Mastery (Learning)

  • Learns and actively works to build selfawareness; develop through experience and feedback from others. Copes effectively with stress and has the resilience to take on stretching and challenging assignments which carry a risk of failure. Adjusts effectively to work within new work structures; processes; requirements, or cultures.
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