About First National Bank (FNB)

First National Bank (FNB) is one of the “big four” banks in South Africa and a division of the financial services conglomerate, FirstRand. It provides a full range of banking and financial services to individuals, businesses, and corporations. An acclaimed mobile banking app and online banking platforms that offer secure and convenient access to financial services, including Secure Chat for customer support.

Job Description

To implement the Analytics standards in allocated business units, that contribute to the monetisation of data through the
development and delivery of advanced mathematical models and business principles that find hidden patterns and associations in data used to influence business strategy, inform channel design and make predictions on the behaviour of clients.

As part of our HSL team, you will be surrounded by unique talents, diverse minds, and an adaptable environment that lives up to the promise of staying curious. Now’s the time to imagine your potential in a team where experts come together and ignite effective change.

Are you someone who can:

• Manage a team of 3 data scientists
• Manage Outbound Campaigns:
  • Daily monitoring and redropping to increase reach
  • Campaign automation, testing, and reporting
  • Input into early-stage campaign planning
  • Troubleshooting automation or data-related issues
  • Volumes, values, and logic for campaign approval forums

• Do Monthly strategic reviews and campaign overlap analysis
• Manage Inbound Campaigns:

• Trigger build, testing, and monitoring
• Feature engineering and data extraction
• Weekly data drops and personalized messaging
• Strategic insights and support for Context Steerco approvals
• Opportunity Sizing & Identification
• Ad hoc business analytics requests
• Strategic input to continuously improve campaign effectiveness

You will be an ideal candidate if you have:

• Strong Management experience
• Qualified in Mathematics, Actuary, Statistics or similar
• Minimum 5 years’ experience in a similar role
• Strong SAS skills
• PowerBI & Python skills as an advantage

You will have access to:

• Inspiring work environment
• Work that is challenging
• Space to make a difference.
• Opportunities to innovate.

We can be a match if you are:

• Curious – you’re driven by always wanting to know more and learn more.
• Obsessed with mastery – you know what it takes to become good at what you do and are constantly pushing yourself to do it.
• Courageous – you’re brave enough to think and do things differently and are always ready to put your hand up and take ownership.
• A team player – you believe in the power of teams so you’re always part of one, building and leveraging your networks.
• Emotionally intelligent – you have a high EQ that enables you to truly connect with people, no matter how technical or specialist your role is.