Deloitte is a leading global provider of audit and assurance, consulting, financial advisory, risk advisory, tax, and related services. With more than 150 years of hard work and commitment to making a real difference, our organization has grown in scale and diversity approximately 286,000 people in 150 countries and territories, providing these services yet our shared culture remains the same. Click here to read more about Deloitte.

About the Division

The value that Deloitte Risk Advisory Africa creates for organisations is synonymous with operational excellence. Our five business areas work in unison to provide integrated solutions unique to the organisational requirements of any business.

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Deloitte Analytics is the practice of using data to drive business strategy and performance. It includes a range of approaches and solutions, from looking backward to evaluate what happened in the past to looking forward, to do scenario planning and predictive modelling.

The analytical insights team forms part of Deloitte Analytics and is a unique collection of data scientists and data engineers from different backgrounds that use advanced data modelling, Machine Learning, visualisation, rapid prototyping techniques and software development skills to provide new value embedded in customers’ existing data, with a focus on Artificial Intelligence and cognitive computing.

By utilising a combination of tools, processes and frameworks, we are able to combine diverse sources of structured and unstructured data into a data-comb that exposes hidden relationships and linkages required to address critical business and strategic questions from our stakeholders.

We are looking for enthusiastic, proactive and passionate individuals, who have a keen interest to transform the future of Deloitte and our clients with profound and impactful data insights using Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning, to create a distinct competitive edge.

The job will expect you to:

• Communicate effectively and build relationships with stakeholders to understand their business and identify data solutions using Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning.
• Deliver on both client and strategic internal engagements.
• Provide expertise on specific predictive modelling techniques and/or software solutions.
• Understand the fundamentals of Machine Learning and other advanced techniques.
• Design overall predictive modelling/Machine Learning project approach from data sourcing to deployment including data architecture that will be required to execute project.
• Perform sophisticated model development analyses.
• Write programs to import data into various technology tools and to scrub, manipulate, and analyse data.
• Report on all findings from analytical programs written in various technology tools
• Understand how to translate technical complexities and solutions into business insights in order to create value for our clients.
• Understand the fundamentals of software development lifecycle and how to make it practical when developing advanced Machine Learning solutions.
• Travel locally and internationally.

• BSc Data Science
• BSc Statistics
• BSc Financial Mathematics
• BSc IT / Computer Science
• Preferred: Master’s in data science/ ML

*Please note that this job advertisement provides a summary of the capabilities required and all candidates shortlisted will receive a full list of capabilities.