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Data Scientist and Modelling Analyst

DigiOutsourceCape Town, ZA

12 days ago

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Job title : Data Scientist and Modelling Analyst

Job Location : Western Cape, Cape Town

Deadline : November 16, 2025

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Why we need you

We’re on a mission to create extraordinary experiences for our customers, and we believe that your unique skills, passion and SuperDrive will help us achieve our vision.

As a Mid or Junior Actuary at SGHC, you’ll play a pivotal role in advancing our Actuarial Super Model (ASM) and supporting our subsidiaries with robust financial forecasting and scenario analysis.

Your expertise will help us deliver accurate, actionable insights by developing user-friendly tools, integrating advanced modelling techniques, and collaborating across teams to ensure our models are accessible and impactful. By joining us, you’ll empower non-actuarial colleagues, drive innovation in our modelling processes, and support strategic decisions—from due diligence on acquisitions to ongoing commercial performance analysis.

Your analytical mindset, technical skills, and collaborative spirit will be key to shaping the future of our business and delivering value to our customers and stakeholders.

Ready to become a game-changer? Supercharge your career with us and be part of something extraordinary.

What you’ll be doing

As part of your role, your responsibilities will include :

Assistance in the ongoing development of the ASM (writing code, testing / debugging, etc.)

Development and maintenance of user-friendly tools for assumption setting

Development and maintenance of reporting dashboards in PowerBI

Working with software engineers to integrate model outputs into group financial and reporting systems

Onboarding and providing support to non-actuarial users of the ASM

Using the ASM for financial forecasting purposes, including the following subtasks

Extracting, transforming and analysing customer and transactional data;

Setting assumptions by reference to past experience and future expectations;

Executing model runs and analysing / reporting on the results.

Scenario analyses

Regression modelling

Ongoing analysis of the commercial performance of SGHC’s various subsidiaries in order to inform the structure, design and future development path of the ASM.

Roll out and support the use of the ASM by SGHC’s subsidiaries, including assistance with setting of assumptions and interpretation of results;

Sense-check the budget setting and capital market guidance outputs derived by SGHC’s subsidiaries, including explaining significant variances (if any) in outputs compared with that which experience and data supports;

Due diligence and evaluation of potential acquisition targets, with particular reference to analysis of the target company’s customers and revenues, modelling of scenarios for expected future revenue streams of the target business and projecting the value of potential synergies (if any) resulting from the consolidation of the target business into SGHC.

This job description is not intended to be an exhaustive list of responsibilities. You may be required to complete other reasonable duties in order to achieve business objectives.

Essential skills you’ll bring to the table

The necessary skills that we require for this role include :

BSc, BBusSc or similar 3- or 4-year degree qualification with actuarial science and statistics as majors

Ideally 3 years of actuarial work experience within an actuarial valuations / pricing / modelling team in the fields of life insurance or retirement funds (specifically DB fund valuations or PRML valuations or similar)

Advanced Excel and at least intermediate SQL skills

Experience with Python, VBA and other software languages

Have passed or been exempted from the following ASSA Exams (or similar)

A213 – Contingencies Exam (previously CT5)

A211 – Financial Mathematics (previously CT1)

A113 – Business Finance (previously CT2)

Good communication and report-writing abilities, including the ability to articulate complex concepts in simple terms to lay audiences

Desirable skills you’ve got up your sleeve

Experience with coding in cashflow modelling software (e.g. Tyche, Prophet or similar)

Experience with stochastic modelling and Monte Carlo methods

Experience with GLMs and time series analyses

Experience with ML and AI modelling

Experience with PowerBI or similar

Beneficial to have passed or been exempted from the following ASSA exams (or similar)

NS Model, Documentation Analysis and Reporting (A402 / A420) / Module 3 of N111 (i.e. Modelling Fundamentals)

N211 – Professional Communications for actuaries

Experience in consulting to clients

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