Data Scientist at ACCION Microfinance Bank

• The role entails reviewing information such as sales figures, logistics or market research, analyzing large amounts of raw information to find patterns that will help improve our company.

Duties of the position

• Work with business leaders to identify problems that can be resolved using data science techn iques.
• Identify valuable data sources and automate collection processes.
• Apply business acumen to develop feasible data-based recommendations that will address organizational issues.
• Undertake preprocessing of structured and unstructured data.
• Mine and analyze data from company databases to drive optimization and improvement of product development, marketing techniques and business strategies.
• Analyze large amounts of information to discover trends and patterns.
• Coordinate with different functional teams to implement models and monitor outcomes.
• Build predictive models and machine-learning algorithms

Qualification

• Bachelor's degree or higher in a relevant field such as Computer Science, Statistics, Mathematics, Data Science, or other quantitative field is preferred.
• Minimum of 3 years proven work experience as a Data Scientist or Data Analyst.
• Experience in data mining.
• Understanding of machine-learning and operations research
• Knowledge of R, SQL and Python; familiarity with Scala, Java or C++ is an asset
• Experience using business intelligence tools (e.g. Tableau) and data frameworks (e.g. Hadoop)
• Analytical mind and business acumen
• Strong math skills (eg. statistics, algebra)