Data Scientist (Customer Analytics)

Questions come to you at a short-term insurer in Fourways, and you answer them with data. If you like clear targets and knowing where you stand, this is for you.

You'll be based at a short-term insurer in Fourways. Living nearby, or on a taxi route to it, really helps. There's a probation period of three months before the contract is confirmed.

• Check data quality and trace odd numbers back to the source
• Automate weekly reports that used to take hours in Excel
• Present findings to managers in plain language with clear charts
• Mask or remove personal information in data sets under POPIA
• Build ETL pipelines in SSIS, Azure Data Factory or Python
• Build simple forecasting and segmentation models in Python or R

• Hands-on Power BI, Tableau or a similar tool
• Careful with sensitive customer data
• At least 2 years in a data or reporting role (not needed for graduate posts)
• Degree in statistics, maths, computer science, economics or a related field
• Strong SQL, including joins, window functions and CTEs
• Advanced Excel

• Industry knowledge in retail, insurance or credit
• Experience with Databricks, Snowflake or Fabric

• Annual bonus tied to company performance
• Paid cloud and BI certifications
• Latest laptop with extra screen
• Hybrid work with two office days

• Build one public portfolio dashboard on a South African open data set if you have no work samples to share.
• Put SQL and your BI tool in the first line of your CV; these are the keywords every data recruiter searches.