Data Analyst - Cape Town, South Africa

- Harare, Zimbabwe
Job Details
Job ID: | #16371 |
Job Location | Cape Town, South Africa |
Company Type | Retail/Sales |
Job Role | Data Analyst |
Joining Date | ASAP |
Employment Type | Full Time |
Monthly Salary | Negotiable |
Preferred Candidate
Career Level | Middle Management |
Years of Experience | 2 |
Residence Location | Cape Town, South Africa |
Gender | Not Specified |
Nationality | SA ID |
Degree | BCom / BBusSci / BSc Actuarial Science / BCom Investments or similar qualification |
Job Description
• Responsible for ad hoc analyses
• Feature engineering
• Data preparation
• Development of statistical models
• Strategy development
• Monitoring and tracking
Key Skills
• Excellent analytical and numeric skills
• 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 with 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
• Self-starter
Required Skills
• At least 2 years’ experience in building, implementing and using statistical models
• Experience conceptualizing, coding and implementing feature engineering
• Experience working with large datasets and preparing data
• SAS Base / Enterprise Guide programming experience
• Experienced Microsoft Office user
• SAS Enterprise Miner programming experience advantageous
• Experience with bureau data beneficial
• Experience using Python and Hadoop advantageous