Truworths Risk Analyst Training Programme


Advertiser: Truworths
Location: Cape Town

Location: Cape Town

Overview: Amazing opportunity for an entry level role with plenty of growth opportunties! Truworths, South Africa’s leading retailer is looking for a BBusSci / BSc / Act Sci / BCom Investments or an Operations Research graduate (strong Mathematics/Statistics) with a strong academic record to join our team of Risk Analysts.

Key Responsibilities:
- Investigating data integrity issues, testing assumptions and validating analytical results
- Analysing strategy changes and determining impact on areas of application and account management strategies
- Presenting ideas via reports and presentations, outlining findings and making recommendations for improvements
- Forecasting and monitoring implemented strategies using statistical techniques
- Project managing the implementation of strategy changes into live systems
- Developing predictive models aimed at the optimisation of profit in decision-making

Key Requirements:
- Strong ability in analytics, commercial thinking and presenting and communicating information
- Skilled at manipulating and analysing data using analysis tools, such as SAS or SQL, for complex modelling purposes or forecasting exposure to predictive analytics processes such as linear regression, decision trees, clustering, scorecard building.
- Ability to learn new technology quickly without extensive training.

Closing date: Not indicated in advert

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Definitions:

Internship:

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  • The Undergraduate Internship: Usually with bigger organisations that pick undergraduates to attend the internship. It often takes places during the holidays and the average durations is a few weeks. In most cases the intern will receive some sort of stipend or salary and this type of internship may lead to a job offer to the intern once he / she is finished with their studies.
  • The Graduate Internship: This type of internship could be paid or unpaid and it is to gain practical work experience after the qualification has been completed and in a job related to the qualification. It could be from a few weeks or even one or two years long. This type of internship could also lead to permanent employment.

Learnerships:

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In-service training:

In-service training is to gain practical work experience during studies. It usually takes place after a few years of theory has been successfully completed. It is essential work experience that is part of the qualification and the in-service training is necessary to achieve the qualification. It could be paid or unpaid.