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    Affin Bank Berhad

    Banking

    Data Scientist

    Menara Affin, TRX, MalaysiaFull-timePosted 3mo ago
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    Job description

    Create the future with Affin! ​​You too can make a difference.

    We continuously innovate to transform our financial services landscape - making banking better and easier. Join us at AFFIN, where the open minds meet and be inspired by a shared commitment to great work. You too can make a difference.

    Job Purpose
    Process the data and turn it into usable data products that are useful and meaningful to the business to uncover insights, patterns, and relationships from a labelled training dataset and produce an inferred function.

    Accountabilities

    • Identify, assess and analyze relevant datasets along with Business Analysts in IT, Data Governance and Business Users.

    • Perform and contribute to ongoing management of new and existing datasets in the Enterprise Data Hub for data analytics purposes.

    • Design and upkeep explanatory data models.

    • Produce predictive models (e.g., propensity, churn, response, cross-sell) and maintain plus evaluate models’ performance.

    • Contribute to data strategy with Data Governance and Data & Analytics team.

    • Conceptualize financial drivers of bank activities and translate them into quantitative systems using advanced analytics, including machine learning techniques.

    • Analyze cross-data correlations and portfolio dependency/performance in different macro environments.

    • Manage the coordination with Data Engineer, Data Governance and IT teams to ensure best practices are utilized.

    • Lead and manage meetings with team members regarding data projects governed by Data & Analytics Projects Delivery Model.

    • Automate and integrate business processes based on request and own research. Propose new use cases to the bank with the assistance of Data & Analytics team members.

    • Research solutions to overcome data analytics challenges.

    • Develop complex mathematical models that integrate business rules and requirements.

    • Create relevant machine learning models in the Google Cloud Platform environment.

    • Communicate and meet with relevant stakeholders, IT teams, and other interested parties.

    • Share complex ideas verbally and visually in an understandable manner with non-technical stakeholders.

    • Execute end-to-end analytics for marketing and customer campaigns, including leads generation, leads tracking, and post-campaign analysis.

    Job Requirements

    • Has a BSc/Masters in Data Science or equivalent.

    • Has a minimum four years of experience in data science and advanced analytics jobs.

    • Good knowledge of Univariate and Multivariate Analysis, Missing Value Treatment, Outlier Detection and Treatment, Probability, Statistics, Statistical Modeling, Supervised, Unsupervised Learning, Time-Series Analysis, Feature Engineering, Model Deployment and Mathematical Optimization.

    • Understanding of programming language (Python and R or equivalent) and common data structures and algorithms for data processing and Data Science Modelling.

    • Has a good understanding of data warehousing and cloud infrastructure for Data Science solutions.

    • Familiarity with high-performance computing.

    • Recognize and understand various Business Intelligence Tools and Participate in the development of dashboards.

    • Expected to keep up with new technologies and apply effects on the existing environment.

    • Good to have experience in campaign analytics, lead generation, or marketing data science.

    • Good to have experience with campaign tracking, attribution, and performance measurement.

    • Must be a team player and team builder to maximize the synergies between each of the teams, which will play a part in the overall success of the Unit.

    • Highly self-motivated and self-directing. Should have the required experience and confidence to independently manage, coordinate and implement an agreed plan of multiple activities.

    • Must have skills in Analytical Thinking, numerically strong, Planning and Organizing, Monitoring Performance, empowerment & Goal Setting.

    • Ability to manage projects while working under pressure, have high spirit, improving as per coaching, attitude & behavior in the office.

    • Change management.

    • Problem solving

    Job details are sourced from the employer's original posting.

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    About the company

    Affin Bank Berhad

    Affin Bank Berhad is a Malaysian bank offering a wide range of financial products and services.

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