Data Scientist at First Bank

First BankLagos, Nigeria Data and Artificial Intelligence

Full Time

First Bank of Nigeria Limited (FirstBank) is Nigeria’s largest financial services institution by total assets and gross earnings. With more than 10 million customer accounts, FirstBank has over 750 branches providing a comprehensive range of retail and corporate financial services. The Bank has international presence through its subsidiaries, FBN Bank (UK) Limited in London and Paris, FBNBank DRC, FBNBank Ghana, FBNBank Gambia, FBNBank Guinea, FBNBank Sierra-Leone and FBNBank Senegal, as well as its Representative Offices in Johannesburg, Beijing and Abu Dhabi. Since its establishment in 1894, FirstBank has consistently built relationships with customers focusing on the fundamentals of good corporate governance, strong liquidity, risk management and leadership. Over the years, the Bank has led the financing of private investment in infrastructure development in the Nigerian economy by playing key roles in the Federal Government’s privatisation and commercialisation schemes. With its global reach, FirstBank provides prospective investors wishing to explore the vast business opportunities that are available in Nigeria, an internationally competitive world-class brand and a credible financial partner. The Bank has been named "The Best Bank Brand in Nigeria” four times in a row - 2011, 2012, 2013, 2014 - by the globally renowned "The Banker Magazine” of the Financial Times Group; and "Most Innovative Bank in Africa” in the EMEA Finance African Banking Awards 2014. FirstBank’s brand purpose is to always put its customers, partners and all stakeholders at the heart of its business, even as it is poised to standardise customer experience and excellence in financial solutions across Sub Saharan Africa, in consonance with its brand vision "To be the partner of first choice in building your future”. Our brand promise is to always deliver the ultimate "gold standard” of value and excellence. This commitment is anchored on FirstBank’s inherent values of passion, partnership and people, to position our customers first in every respect.

JOB DESCRIPTION

Support the implementation of the Data Science & Analytics as an enterprise capability in line with framework, analytics vision, strategies, roadmaps & projects
Design, develop and deploy statistical and mathematical models to solve critical financial services & operational business problems
Apply machine learning and AI techniques to financial services & operational business problems to deliver differentiated value
Continuously engage stakeholders to gather requirements, viewpoints and perspectives
Support the development and management of enterprise analytics requirements
Maintain analytics tools capability catalogs
Serve as subject matter expert on available visualization & analytical tools i.e. features, capabilities and best practices
Support capability increments by conducting training/info sessions with analytics stakeholders and business users with the overarching objective of insight driven enterprise transformation
Keep abreast of changes in visualization tools marketplace and changes to existing enterprise tools
Provide quarterly change impact assessment on existing visualization tools where applicable
Develop analytics solutions leveraging a variety of available tools as assigned based on requirements and assigned priorities
Build ingestion processes to, prepare, extract, and annotate a rich data variety of structured & unstructured data sources
Participate in working group meetings as required
Collaborate closely with other teams within the CDO office to ensure consistency and a synchronized approach to all data related issues
Serve as a resource on projects as required
Ensure that all analytics operations are aligned to the enterprise analytics strategy & initiatives are synchronized where possible
Other duties as may be delegated by Data Analytics Lead

JOB REQUIREMENTS

Education

Minimum Education: Degree in Statistics, Machine Learning, Mathematics, Computer Science, Economics, or any other related quantitative field. Advanced degrees are an advantage

Experience