Star Personnel Recruitment

Great opportunity to display your data analytics talents when you join this specialised Risk and Analytics team at one of SA’s biggest fashion retailers. It’s a fast-paced, exciting environment, and one in which you will be constantly encouraged to re-invent the way they do business in their continuous drive to remain at the very top of their industry. You’ll need a stats / maths focused degree and 3 years experience building statistical models for credit strategy development.

Qualifications & Experience

Recognized degree majoring in Statistics or Mathematics or Actuarial

At least 3 years’ experience in building, implementing and using statistical models for business strategy development

SAS Base / Enterprise Guide programming experience

SAS Enterprise Miner programming experience advantageous

Experienced Microsoft Office user

Experience in a retail or financial services industry

Specific experience in collections or recoveries

Experience with bureau data beneficial

Skills

Excellent analytical and numeric skills

High attention to detail driving a need for 100\% accuracy

Able to work effectively in a high-volume, fast-paced, error-free environment

Excellent verbal, written and presentation communication skills required

Ability to prepare well-structured, clear and concise deliverables

Strong collaborative interpersonal skills – both with internal and external parties

High level of integrity and confidentiality

 Responsibilities

The successful candidate will be responsible for:

Ad hoc analyses;

The development of advanced statistical models for use in strategy development;

Monitoring and tracking of existing models;

Reporting.