Data, Monitoring and Research Jobs at PostBank Uganda Ltd

Deadline of this Job: 23 November 2022  
JOB DETAILS:
JOB TITLE: Senior Data Analyst
REPORTS TO: Head Of Strategy And Data

The bank recently acquired a tier 1 licence, and it is growing and expanding its operations, leading to new openings, and opportunities for people who wish to grow their careers in Banking. The bank therefore wishes to recruit a competent, hardworking, dependable, and flexible resource, with a clean track record for the role that has fallen vacant.

Job Purpose
• Provide business intelligence solutions and analytical support to the business and support functions
• Gather end user reporting and dashboard requirements
• Communicate insights to the business and support teams to grow revenue and improve operational e¬iciencies
• Support and publish regular business reports and dashboards to assist the business teams track and grow their client portfolios sustainably

Key Responsibilities /Key Deliverables
• Provide high quality data, expertise, and Insight to the business teams and other support functions
• Conduct detailed data analysis on data used across the various business segments to evaluate business processes and improve them
• Perform various data analytics in SQL and MS Excel using statistical models or industry accepted tools
• Participate in ad-hoc data research initiatives to provide data, ideas and support process improvement initiatives
• Lead report automation and distribution using industry wide accepted tools and technologies
• Provide relational database expertise to construct and execute SQL queries to be used in data analysis activities
• Prepare slides and presentations regarding key business insights to senior management stakeholders and attract decisions to be taken by them
• Innovate with how data is presented to senior management to make actionable insights and metrics enabling the business to take data driven decisions
• Provide expertise and translate the business needs to design and develop tools, techniques, and metrics, and dashboards for insights and data visualization

Education And Training
• A Bachelor’s degree in Analytics, Computer Science, Economics or Data Science, Mathematics or in a related field
• Certification in MS PowerBI/Tableau/Qlik Sense/Oracle BI will be added advantage
• Advanced data management techniques with extensive experience. 5+ years of financial services industry experience as a Business/Data Analyst with 5+ experience in data analysis using tools such as SQL and MS Excel
• Practical knowledge of data in various forms (data warehouse environments, unstructured data environments, and PowerPivot models in MS Excel)
• Familiarity with BI reporting tools (i.e., MS PowerBI/Tableau/Qlik Sense/Oracle BI)
• Experience working with process management and improvement methodologies and demonstrated knowledge of data governance, data quality management concepts and data quality tools

Skills And Experience
• Exhibit good knowledge of Banking business operations
• Exhibit good leadership skills
• Ability to multi-task
• Ability to work between functional and technical teams
• Being able to work independently with little or no supervision
• Proficiency in data visualisations tools
• Proficiency in data mining tools
• Advanced data modelling skills
• Competence in data analysis, reviewing and validating data
• Strong numerical skills.



Deadline of this Job: 23 November 2022  
JOB DETAILS:
JOB TITLE: Senior Data Scientist
REPORTS TO: Head Of Strategy And Data

The bank recently acquired a tier 1 licence, and it is growing and expanding its operations, leading to new openings, and opportunities for people who wish to grow their careers in Banking. The bank therefore wishes to recruit a competent, hardworking, dependable, and flexible resource, with a clean track record for the role that has fallen vacant.

Job Purpose

• Creating new, experimental frameworks to collect data
• Building tools to automate data collection
• Searching through large data sets for usable information
• Processing, cleansing, and verifying the integrity of data used for analysis
• Correlating similar data to find actionable results

Key Responsibilities /Key Deliverables
• Support with the execution and management of special projects related to analytics
• Work with stakeholders throughout the organization to identify opportunities for leveraging Bank data to drive business solutions
• Mine and analyse data from Bank databases to drive optimization and improvement of product development, marketing techniques and business strategies
• Assess the e¬ectiveness and accuracy of new data sources and data gathering techniques
• Develop custom data models and algorithms to apply to data sets
• Use predictive modelling to increase and optimize customer experiences, revenue generation and other business outcomes
• Coordinate with di¬erent functional teams to implement models and monitor outcomes
• Develop processes and tools to monitor and analyse model performance and data accuracy.

Education And Training
• Bachelor’s degree in statistics, Computer Science, Information Technology, Applied Mathematics, or a related discipline
• 4+ years’ experience in the financial services industry (experience in a Tier 1 financial institution is an advantage)
• 4+ years’ experience in data analysis, systems analysis and data manipulation
• Proficiency with data mining, mathematics, and statistical analysis
• Advanced pattern recognition and predictive modelling experience
• Experience with MS Excel, MS PowerPivot, MS PowerPivot, SQL Server Integration Services
• Proficiency in at-least 3 programming languages i.e., SQL, JavaScript, Python, R etcetera.

Skills And Experience
• Strong problem-solving skills with an emphasis on product development
• Experience using statistical computer languages (R, Python etcetera.) to manipulate data and draw insights from large data sets
• Experience working with and creating data architectures
• Knowledge of advanced statistical techniques and concepts (regression, properties of distributions, statistical tests and proper usage, etcetera) and experience with applications
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills for coordinating across teams
• A drive to learn and master new technologies and techniques
• Strong business acumen.