Lead Specialist, Data Analyst - Malaysia - GXBank

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Lead Specialist, Data Analyst

Apply locations Petaling Jaya (First Avenue) time type Full time posted on Posted 3 Days Ago job requisition id R

GX Bank Berhad - the Grab-led Digital Bank - is the the FIRST digital bank in Malaysia, approved by BNM to commence operations. We aim to leverage technology and innovation to serve the financial needs of the unserved and underserved individuals, and micro and small medium enterprises.

We are driven by our shared purpose and passion to bring positive transformation to the banking industry, starting with solutions that addresses the financial struggles of Malaysians and businesses.

You will lead and build a team of data analysts to build GXBank

• Develop a roadmap for data analytics for GxBank k to partner with the commercial teams
• Explore and extract insights from massive dataset of geospatial, behavioural, economic, and the extraction of 3rd party data, to power a credit scoring model that can make financing decisions instantly, accurately and in fairness to the end customer
• Build models for the digibank based on alternative data (e.g. Credit profile/score)
• Leveraging data to help the business answer questions around further expansion, products, customer acquisition/retention/churn and any other business goals that can be addressed through data insights.
• Build, validate, test, and deploy machine learning or other data science models to predict and influence the behaviour of consumers with the goal of optimising system efficiency of the platform
• Develop a deep behavioral understanding and intuition of users and translate these intuitions into actionable, creative insights that produces heuristic or classification models to identify system violators
• Manage and own the entire end-to-end lifecycle of designing models, working with Engineering for implementation, scaling, to maintenance and enforcement
• Work independently or in a team to solve complex problem statements
• Test and validate these insights via rapid experimentation and deployment
• Interface with business & operation teams to formulate solutions & product changes informed by your findings

The must haves:

• Experience in leading a team of data scientists, preferably in a startup or tech company
• PhD/Masters degree in Statistics, Mathematics, Econometrics, Operation Research, Computer Science or equivalent
• 8+ years relevant industry experience (preferably in an Internet or 'Direct to Consumer' company with high velocity data and scaled controlled experiments)
• Strong statistical knowledge - ideally having utilized controlled experiments in the industry
• Experience solving prediction, classification, reinforcement problems using applied statistics & machine learning
• Experience with Data Science / scripting / programming tools, including but not limited to Python, R or SQL
• Experience in Spark (Scala / pySpark) would be a plus
• Strong Product sense
• Self-Starter. Ability to work independently and drive own projects.

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GX Bank Berhad (GXBank) is Malaysia's first digital bank that commenced operation on 1 September 2023. With a workforce of more than 95% Malaysians from both the finance and technology sectors, the bank aims to disrupt the current banking industry with customised innovative solutions that empower Malaysians to be financially resilient and support their financial goals. Powered by Grab, GXBank is a subsidiary of GXS Bank Pte. Ltd., – the digital bank joint venture between Grab Holdings Limited and Singapore Telecommunications Limited (Singtel) – and a consortium of other Malaysian investors, including Kuok Group.

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