Data Scientist (Johannesburg) needed at FNB South Africa

Job Description

• To build, optimise and implement innovative quantitative analytical methodologies, procedures, and advanced mathematical models that provide analytical support and interpret insights, to address business opportunities and problems and implement business strategy, under guidance against predicted results and deliver according to set processes and procedures.

Hello Future Quantitative Analyst!

• Welcome to FNB, the home of the #changeables. We design for the shapeshifters and deliver products and services that make us incredibly proud of people that make it happen.
• As part of FR Life, you will be surrounded by unique talents, diverse minds, and an adaptable environment that lives up to the promise of staying curious. Now’s the time to imagine your potential in a team where experts come together and ignite effective change. 

Are you someone who can:

• Work with large volumes of data and critically assess assumptions as inputs into complex models
• Work with multiple coding platforms to build models and compile analysis that deliver insights and facilitate decision making
• Collaborate and communicate with technical and business stakeholders in the delivery of your objectives
• Innovate to come up with new solutions and improve how we work

You will be an ideal candidate if you:

• Have 1 – 5 years of relative experience
• Have an actuarial science background
• Have made good process with exams
• Have life insurance pricing and/or valuations experience (advantageous)
• Have experience with actuarial modelling software, Prophet software experience is highly advantageous

You will have access to:

• Opportunities to network and collaborate
• Challenging Working
• Opportunities to innovate

We can be a match if you are:

• Curious & courageous – you’re driven by always wanting to know more and learn more and you’re brave enough to
• Obsessed with mastery – you know what it takes to become good at what you do and are constantly pushing yourself to do it