Africa’s leading financial long- and short-term insurance providers are seeking their next Data Science Guru.

Do you have more than 5 years of work experience in a company as a Data Scientist? Do you perform those day-to-day tasks such as advanced and predictive analytics, data exploration, information and business consulting, insights and reporting, stakeholder engagement, continuous improvement, and machine learning?
If this interests you, and you want to be a value add to our business, APPLY NOW!

Requirements:

  • 5 to 7 years working experience within an analytical, data science
  • Data analytics and optimization using the latest statistical tools and packages (Essential)
  • Experience in financial insurance
  • Employ machine learning techniques and build predictive, descriptive, and behavioural models to help achieve various business performance indicators and to help identify business opportunities, linking insights to actionable recommendations environment (Advantageous)

  • Proficient In Ms Office, SQL, Business Intelligence Software, SAS, R Programming, Python

Qualifications:

  • Degree in Information Technology, Quantitative sciences / Actuarial sciences / Data Mining / Economics (Essential); Master’s / Sciences / Informatics / Applied Mathematics / Statistics

The Reference Number for this position is PP57164 which is a Permanent position based at their client in Johannesburg is offering a salary of up to [URL Removed] Per Annum negotiable on experience and ability. Contact Prinuchka Pather at [Email Address Removed] or call her at [Phone Number Removed]; to discuss this and other opportunities.

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Desired Skills:

  • SQL
  • SAS
  • R
  • Python
  • Predictive modelling
  • Data Science
  • Text mining

Desired Work Experience:

  • 5 to 10 years Data Analysis / Data Warehousing

Desired Qualification Level:

  • Diploma

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