First Bank of Nigeria Limited Recruitment 2024

First Bank of Nigeria

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.

We are recruiting to fill the position below:

Job Title: Data Scientist

Job Identification: 989
Location: Nigeria

Key Responsibilities

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

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Serve as subject matter expert on available visualization & analytical tools i.e. features, capabilities and best practices
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
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
Other duties as may be delegated by Data Analytics Lead

Job Requirements

Bachelor’s Degree in Statistics, Machine Learning, Mathematics, Computer Science, Economics, or any other related quantitative field. Advanced degrees are an advantage
Minimum of 3 years experience as a data scientist