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Data Analyst

Full Time

Website Santam Insurance

Santam is a South African financial services group that also has business interests in Malawi, Tanzania, Uganda, Zimbabwe and Zambia.

What will you do?

  • The purpose of the role is to join a small group of data pioneers to wrangle data, enhance business reporting and build models to enhance decision-making and profitability.
  • This is a unique opportunity to work in a dynamic environment and collaborate across analytics teams, while having the freedom to create the data assets that you will model on; with technical data work, reporting and modelling being the core responsibilities of the role.

What will make you successful in this role?

  • Data wrangling
  • Building data flows from multiple sources in SAS and creating data assets in Hadoop
  • Dashboard and Report creation
  • Data extracts for adhoc business requests
  • Trend analysis and reporting from extracted data
  • Assist stakeholders by doing manual extracts from existing dashboards and SQL sources where required
  • Look for opportunities to improve existing reports and dashboards
  • Collaborate with multiple analytics teams to ensure efficient delivery
  • Work closely with actuarial and pricing teams on collaborative insights and modelling projects
  • Work with the underwriting team to come up with unique insights that drive underwriting rules and decisions
  • Do web scraping and data acquisition from novel data sources for insights and analysis

Qualification and Experience

  • Degree in Actuarial Science/Econometrics/Statistics/Computer Science/Data Science or related field.
  • 2-3 years of work experience, preferably in the insurance industry
  • Advanced SQL skills, including data processing, query optimisation, ability to utilize different SQL dialects (MsSQL, Hadoop SQL, Sybase)
  • Experience in R, Python (essential) and SAS (preferred) – SAS and Python are used in the role
  • Experience with PowerBi (essential) and Qlik/QlikSense (preferred)
  • Advanced Excel skills (Power query, VBA, complex formulas)
  • Hands on understanding of insurance concepts and accounting data
  • Hands on experience with web scraping, API development and data science application development will be beneficial
  • Previous practical experience within insurance pricing, underwriting and claims environments will be beneficial
  • Understanding and working experience with machine learning and statistical modelling, especially GLMs, decisions trees and feature engineering

Knowledge and Skills

  • Data design
  • Problem solving
  • Business Knowledge
  • Statistical and Data modelling

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