Role Summary
- Looking for an opportunity to use your analytical skills and
business insight to alleviate poverty and empower access to financial
services? Angaza is building a modern analytics practice around a deep
commitment to our core values, high-quality tools, proven development
practices, and a philosophy of continuous professional improvement, and we
need you to help us make that vision a reality! You will interface with
colleagues across the company to develop a deep understanding of the
sources of our various data streams as well as design consumer credit and
decision models that will best support the business.
Duties and Responsibilities
- Deliver business solutions via a collaborative approach to
make optimal consumer credit and underwriting decisions
- Do this by:
- Analysing data
- Building and monitoring predictive models (Credit Scorecards
and other ML Models)
- Monitoring portfolio performance
- Identifying opportunities to improve profitability and
portfolio health
- Being creative in creating new features from available data
- Evaluating new data sources in terms potential predictive
lift
Competencies:
- Strong SQL skills
- Proficiency with an open source data science language for
building predictive models (Python, R)
- Experienced in building and evaluating Credit Scorecards
- Understanding of retail credit / unsecured consumer lending /
BNPL products
- Strong business insight and appreciation of the challenges
facing growing businesses.
- Bonus if you have:
- Any experience working with alternative data such as mobile
money transactions
- Git change control practices
Qualifications:
- Have a minimum of 3 years experience as decision scientist
working in a consumer lending/credit environment
- Are highly proficient in working with SQL and Python or
R
- Thrive in a cooperative, dynamic environment
- Have strong quantitative and problem-solving skills
- Demonstrate excellent written and verbal communication skills
- Pride yourself on attention to detail
- Exhibit a strong tendency towards self-management
- Exemplify Angaza’s key values: maximizing impact, empathetic,
courageous, trustworthy, curious, and collaborative
How To Apply