Analytics Manager Jobs at Standard Bank of South Africa in Johannesburg

 Job Title: Analytics Manager

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Johannesburg, South Africa (Gauteng)

Permanent skilled level position at Standard Bank of South Africa in the Financial industry.

Benefits: Group Retirement Fund, Medical Aid Fund, Performance Bonus, Preferential Financial Rates, 25 Working Days Leave and Other Attractive Staff Benefits..

Job Purpose
The Analytics Manager is accountable for the analytics that guides and steers VAF's strategy.
Analytics will cover all dimensions of the business, i. e. the end-to-end value chain, all customer segments and origination channels, as well as the complete spectrum of products and pricing.
The complexity of analytics will range from commenting on historical data, to the development of complex models for predicting future behaviour.


Key Result Areas
Lead and Manage the Analytics department.
Provide thought-leadership on Business-critical analytical requirements.
Interaction with all senior staff in VAF to ensure an understanding of the issues that will lead to the analytical work.
Research of the economic environment, as well as the vehicle and asset finance industry, and associated analytics.
Analysis of both internal and external data to drive VAF's decision-making process.
Where relevant, the development of models that will predict future behaviour.
Interpretation of analytical outputs to ensure relevance to the business.
Developing recommendations that will address the risks or opportunities.
These will typically involve changes to Processes, Business Rules, Systems, etc.
"Selling" these recommendations to the relevant staff, at senior levels.
Where applicable, Project Manage the implementation.

The ideal candidate will have the following competencies:

Ability

(MS Excel, MS PowerPoint, MS Word, MS Outlook, MS Project), but also the ability to utilise these tools to perform the required analysis.
Must be equally comfortable working in a team, and analysing information.

Experience

Minimum of 5 years experience in an analytics-related role within a banking or vehicle and asset finance environment
Minimum of 7 to 8 years experience in business.
Must have people management experience.

Knowledge

Business/ Technical Knowledge:.
Analytical-type Bachelors Degree, ideally including Computer science, Statistics, and/or Mathematics.
Cognos and SQL qualifications beneficial.

Standard Bank is a South African-based financial services company with a global presence. Standard Bank believes that it is through their people that they will succeed and that only by working together will they make their offering to its customers. Standard Bank - Moving Forward.

To Apply:

http://standardbank.careerjunction.co.za/car/job/jobvuw.asp?p=1&adno=1415658&pageno=A&adv=-1&inf=0&comtype=3&comloc=-1&reczoneNo=-1&cofilter=0&cokeywords=0&cotype=all&reu=1&refer=car

Deadline: 14th August 2012