Credit Risk Data Scientist

<strong>Recruiter:<br><br></strong>Network Recruitment<br><br><strong>Job Ref:<br><br></strong>NFP017008/ZG<br><br><strong>Date posted:<br><br></strong>Thursday, August 13, 2026<br><br><strong>Location:<br><br></strong>Johannesburg, South Africa<br><br><strong>Salary:<br><br></strong>Annually<br><br><strong>SUMMARY:<br><br></strong>Our client is a leading financial services organisation operating within a data-driven and analytical environment. They are committed to leveraging advanced analytics, technology, and data science to enhance customer outcomes, optimise risk management strategies, and drive sustainable business growth.<br><br>This is an exciting opportunity to join a high-performing analytics team where you will play a key role in credit risk modelling, portfolio analysis, reporting automation, and strategic decision support.<br><br><strong>POSITION INFO:<br><br></strong>We are seeking a technically strong and analytically minded Credit Risk Data Scientist to join a growing risk analytics function. The successful candidate will contribute to the development, monitoring, and enhancement of credit risk models while supporting portfolio monitoring, reporting automation, and analytical investigations across the credit lifecycle. This role offers exposure to a broad range of credit risk analytics activities and is ideal for someone who enjoys working with large datasets, uncovering meaningful insights, building predictive solutions, and influencing business decisions through data-driven recommendations. Key Responsibilities: Assist in the development, enhancement, and monitoring of credit risk models across the customer lifecycle. Perform in-depth portfolio analysis to identify trends, risk drivers, anomalies, and opportunities for performance improvement. Conduct exploratory data analysis, feature engineering, segmentation analysis, and model performance monitoring. Support model validation, back-testing, calibration, and ongoing model governance activities. Develop and maintain recurring analytical reports, dashboards, and automated reporting solutions. Build and enhance business intelligence dashboards to support portfolio monitoring and performance management. Extract, transform, validate, and reconcile large datasets from multiple data sources. Produce regular and ad hoc portfolio monitoring reports and analytical investigations. Support the optimisation of credit risk strategies through data-driven analysis and recommendations. Investigate data quality issues and support remediation initiatives. Collaborate with business stakeholders to translate requirements into analytical and reporting solutions. Contribute to process improvements, automation initiatives, and enhanced risk monitoring capabilities. Experience and Skills Required: Education: Degree in Statistics, Mathematics, Data Science, Computer Science, Engineering, Economics, Finance, Actuarial Science, or another quantitative discipline. Experience: Minimum 3-6 years' experience in a Data Science, Credit Risk Analytics, Quantitative Analytics, Modelling, or Risk Analytics role. Experience within Banking, Financial Services, Lending, FinTech, or Credit Risk environments. Proven experience working with predictive models, scorecards, portfolio analytics, or risk modelling frameworks. Experience analysing large and complex datasets to produce actionable business insights. Exposure to model monitoring, validation, performance tracking, and analytical investigations. Experience building and maintaining automated reporting and dashboard solutions. Strong understanding of credit lifecycle analytics and portfolio management principles. Skills: Advanced SQL skills for data extraction, transformation, and analysis. Strong programming capability in Python, SAS, or similar analytical tools. Experience developing dashboards using Power BI, Tableau, or similar visualisation platforms. Understanding of predictive modelling, statistical techniques, and quantitative analysis. Knowledge of credit risk concepts including scorecards, provisioning, portfolio monitoring, and model performance measurement. Strong analytical, problem-solving, and critical-thinking abilities. Ability to work with large datasets and derive meaningful insights from complex information. Strong stakeholder engagement and communication skills. Ability to clearly present technical findings to both technical and non-technical audiences. Experience automating reporting and analytical processes would be advantageous. Apply now! For more exciting Actuarial and Analytics vacancies, please visit: I also specialise in recruiting in the following: Actuarial Data Analytics Quantitative Specialists Product Development Pricing Valuations Market Risk Credit Risk If you have not had any response in two weeks, please consider the vacancy application unsuccessful. Your profile will be kept on our database for any other suitable roles \/ positions. For more information, contact: Zahrah Gani Specialist Recruitment Consultant Connect with me on LinkedIn:

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