Job summary
Cape Town, South Africa, Africa
Mid Career (2+ years of experience)
Bachelor's Degree
Full time
1
Negotiable
Credit Risk Analyst (Cape Town)(Ref 117)
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
Duties
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.
Job keywords/tags: degree majoring in Statistics or Mathematics or Actuarial