Data Science Manager Job Opportunity at FirstRand Corporate Centre

Job Description

Join our team as a Data Science Manager at FirstRand Corporate Centre and play a pivotal role in implementing analytics standards within our business units. This position is key to monetizing data through the development and delivery of advanced mathematical models and business principles. Your expertise will help uncover hidden patterns and associations in data, influencing business strategy, informing channel design, and predicting client behavior.

Key Responsibilities

As a Data Science Manager, you will:

• Ensure the adoption and localization of model-building policies, standards, frameworks, governance processes, and integration of the business modeling and analytics value chain.
• Collaborate with senior data analytics management to establish goals and strategies for your area of accountability.
• Ensure ethical usage of information in compliance with privacy and sensitivity classification restrictions.
• Understand and implement privacy business requirements, legislation, and policy.
• Report any Information Privacy Incidents and drive the resolution of privacy and protection audit findings, complaints, incidents, investigations, and assessments.
• Leverage data and analytic insights to enhance customer experience by understanding customer context and identifying monetization opportunities.
• Manage an analytics team in the production of high-quality analyses across business functions.
• Create tactical plans for output deliverables in collaboration with business stakeholders, defining metrics to track performance.
• Drive team performance in delivering analytics solutions, enhancing data systems, and streamlining business processes to impact overall business results while keeping costs in check.
• Identify information commercialization opportunities through data analysis to address business needs and explore new revenue options.
• Ensure analytics productionization within the approved FirstRand architecture, translating technical data into practical business information.
• Oversee data manipulation and analysis to meet business needs and ensure data quality and reliability.
• Integrate analytics into operational processes to improve efficiency and client experience.
• Develop core analytical capabilities or model libraries using advanced statistical, quantitative, or econometric techniques.
• Manage overall project dependencies and prioritize the business's analytical needs and opportunities.
• Serve as a Subject Matter Expert (SME) for analytics, applying your understanding of business operations and services.
• Define business questions, appropriate models, and identify relevant data sources for analysis.
• Translate business requirements into tangible solutions or models, leveraging your understanding of business value and project interrelatedness.
• Ensure accurate development and application of analytical algorithms and methods to build, test, and implement advanced mathematical models and solutions that improve business outcomes.
• Provide requirements to the Business Information Management function, ensuring data is prepared for organizational consumption.
• Create tactical plans in collaboration with Technology stakeholders to implement analytical solutions and models supporting business requirements.
• Ensure governance and compliance in the application and implementation of predictive models to manage risk.
• Monitor and document the output and accuracy of models.
• Provide input into business strategies through data analysis, proactively improving efficiency and driving innovation.
• Lead efforts to drive business performance and potential using existing and new data sources and techniques.
• Enable business units to understand their health, identify growth levers, and find optimization opportunities.
• Create data-driven approaches for generating business insights, visualizing information, and addressing business issues proactively.
• Validate and interpret analytical results, creating reports and presentations for data analytics management and stakeholders.
• Collaborate across departments to ensure the effective use of data for operational results.
• Promote a data-driven culture that values data as an asset with business value.
• Lead and manage employees, fostering an environment that encourages growth and performance excellence.
• Identify process improvements and ensure compliance with relevant statutory, legislative, policy, and governance requirements.
• Maintain expert knowledge on legislative amendments, industry best practices, and internal compliance procedures.
• Ensure compliance with systems and procedures as defined by the business.
• Implement and provide input on governance and compliance procedures within your specialization area.
• Build relationships to manage expectations, share knowledge, and create buy-in.
• Engage in cross-functional relationships to provide and receive work support.

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