Data Scientist

Recruiter:

Network Recruitment

Job Ref:

ITE006808/Mon

Date posted:

Thursday, May 22, 2025

Location:

Johannesburg, South Africa

Salary:

Annually

SUMMARY:
A Financial Services company is looking for a skilled Graduate or Junior Data Scientist who is eager to apply data science in real-world financial contexts. You will also be responsible for building models, automating insights, and contributing to data pipelines that support fraud detection and portfolio optimisation.

POSITION INFO:
Responsibilities:

Collect, clean and prepare structured and unstructured financial data.
Assist with preparing, cleansing and transforming data for the BI environment, ensuring data quality and consistency.
Create reports (Power BI) to communicate finding to stakeholders.
Partner with Data Engineers, Analysts, and business stakeholders to ensure that analytical outputs are relevant and actionable.
Contribute to internal automation, reconciliation and alerting tools, to streamline operations.
Identify and propose improvements and efficiencies.

Education:

Bachelor Degree in Data Science, Statistics, Finance, Economics, Computer Science or relevant
Min 0 - 2 years of experience in data analysis
Technical experience in Python, Power BI, and SQL Queries
Understanding data pipelines, version control (Git) and Clouds (advantageous)

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