📍 Mbabane, Eswatini
🏢 Standard Bank Group
💼 Full-time
📂 Business Segment: Personal & Private Banking

Company Description

Standard Bank Group is a leading Africa-focused financial services group and an innovative player on the global stage. The organisation offers a variety of career-enhancing opportunities and the chance to work alongside talented and motivated professionals.

Their clients range from individuals and small businesses to multinational corporates and institutions. Standard Bank is passionate about driving growth in Africa and creating meaningful value for clients, communities, and employees.

Job Description

The successful candidate will assist in applying data mining techniques and conducting statistical analysis on large structured and unstructured datasets to analyse business phenomena.

The role involves modelling business problems, discovering insights and opportunities through statistical, algorithmic, machine learning, and visualisation techniques. The candidate will work closely with clients, data, and technology teams to transform data into critical information used for strategic business decisions.

Qualifications

Required Qualifications

First Degree in Information Studies
First Degree in Information Technology

Experience Required

Data Monetisation – Data & Analytics

3–4 Years Experience

Working with unstructured data (e.g., streams, images)
Understanding of data flows, data architecture, ETL, and data processing
Using data mining techniques to discover patterns from large datasets
Implementing standard and proprietary algorithms for data handling and processing
Experience with data science toolkits such as:
- SAS
- R
- SPSS
Experience with data visualisation tools such as:
- Power BI
- Tableau

Additional Technical Experience

3–4 Years Experience

Software development and software engineering
Understanding financial services data processes, systems, and products
Technical business intelligence
IT infrastructure and data principles
Project management
Building predictive models such as:
- Credit scoring
- Propensity models
- Churn models

Behavioural Competencies

Adopting Practical Approaches
Articulating Information
Challenging Ideas
Checking Things
Examining Information
Exploring Possibilities
Interacting with People
Interpreting Data
Meeting Timescales
Producing Output
Providing Insights
Team Working

Technical Competencies

Data Analysis
Database Administration
Data Integrity
Knowledge Classification
Research & Information Gathering

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