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Job Title:   Scientist, Data 

Organisation: Stanbic Bank

Duty Station:  Kampala, Uganda

About US:

Stanbic Bank Uganda Limited is a subsidiary of Stanbic Africa Holdings Limited which is in turn owned by Standard Bank Group Limited (“the Group”), Africa’s leading banking and financial services group. The Standard Bank Group is the leading banking group focused on emerging markets. It is the largest African banking group ranked by assets and earnings. Stanbic Bank Uganda Limited is the largest bank in Uganda by assets and market capitalization. It offers a full range of banking services through two business units; Personal and Business Banking (PBB), and Corporate and Investment Banking (CIB).

Key Duties and Responsibilities:

• To create and deliver data-driven measurement, analytics, insights and analysis to provide value to a portfolio of business areas in Country PPB,BCC, CIB and Corporate Functions, including next-best action, segmentation, churn, life time value, or loyalty analysis and modelling in order to enable optimal decision making.
• To analyze, model and predict key parameters, trends and behaviors within the Country customer base, taking into account the economic environment, seasonality, business cycles, knowledge of the bank’s customers, pricing and key business strategies.
• Defines and implements (relative to data) the insights and analytics approach, plan, policies and processes for Country, aligned to the Information Management and Customer Insights strategy and the target business operating model and strategy.
• Provide insights and analytics models, analysis and reporting for Country.
• Drives consistency amongst various data sources in order to ensure a single version of the truth, thus minimising confusion regarding insights and analytics
• Creates standards and reduces reworks, through ensuring completeness of the to-be insights and analytics framework.
• Responsible for ensuring compliance to the Data Science Model build Framework.
• Identify data quality issues that affect the accuracy of insights and analytics and pass on to Data Governance and Data Quality Team for remediation.

Qualifications, Skills and Experience:

• The applicant must hold a First Degree; B.Sc. degree in Statistics and/or Mathematics / Quantitative Economics / Information / Computer Science
• Three years of experience in Data Science, Machine Learning, Insights, analytics and data visualization tools such as Power BI, Tableau, etc.
• Experience with common data science toolkits, such as SAS, R, SPSS, etc.,
• Understanding of financial services data processes, systems, and products would be an added advantage
• Project management experience.

Behavioral Competencies:

• Examining Information
• Interpreting Data
• Producing Output
• Providing Insights
• Team Working

Technical Competencies:

• Data Analysis
• Data Integrity
• Database Administration
• Knowledge Classification
• Research & Information Gathering

How to Apply:

All candidates who wish to join the one of Africa’s biggest Banking Groups, Standard Bank in the aforementioned capacity is encouraged to Apply Online by visiting Link below.

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