Ovations Technologies (Pty) Ltd

Agricultural Valuation & Machine Learning Model SME (OVA5725)

Ovations Technologies (Pty) Ltd  •  Johannesburg, ZA (Onsite)  •  9 hours ago
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Job Description

This is a 2 - month contract with our client in the banking sector.

Bridge the gap between agricultural valuation, data science, and credit decisioning by providing expert advisory and research to support machine learning-driven valuation models.

Key Responsibilities

  • Model & Methodology Advisory: Guide agricultural valuation methodologies, asset pricing principles, and the development/refinement of ML models.
  • Output Interpretation: Identify valuation drivers and assumptions; translate complex technical modelling outputs into actionable business language.
  • Cross-Functional Collaboration: Engage with Product, Credit Risk, Agriculture Banking, Data Science, and Tech teams.
  • Research & Governance: Conduct market trend research, produce executive presentation packs, and support model review governance forums.
  • Knowledge Management: Document valuation frameworks and facilitate stakeholder education workshops.

Minimum Requirements

  • Experience: Proven background in agricultural valuation, agribusiness economics, agricultural finance, or related fields.
  • Model Support: Direct experience supporting analytical, statistical, or machine learning models.
  • Technical Knowledge: Deep understanding of valuation methodologies and collateral valuation principles.
  • Skills: Strong research, documentation, and stakeholder communication skills.
  • Advantageous: Experience within a banking, lending, or credit risk environment.
Ovations Technologies (Pty) Ltd

About Ovations Technologies (Pty) Ltd

Enabling the Digital Enterprise

South African business leadership has always been early adopters and significantly used information technology to improve productivity, efficiency, reach new markets and optimize supply chains. What is significant in recent years is that customer expectations have changed radically from the past. The challenge facing all South African and global organisations for that matter is:

• How can they best respond to this paradigm shift?

• How can they take advantage of the opportunity to innovate and grow through technology adoption? And,

• How can they do all this as cost effectively as possible?

This in Ovations’ opinion is the highly strategic journey of Digital Enablement including the critical intersection with Cloud Adoption as the strategic enabler. We, at Ovations, believe that digital enablement incorporates the change associated with the application of modern technology in all aspects of business and society, whereby Cloud Adoption is the way in which all business will implement and accelerate digital enablement.

Ovations has core domain expertise in process automation, content services, data & analytics and financial crime and risk prevention solutions. As Ovations, we provide guidance to our clients through an entire lifecycle of the cloud adoption process including initiatives to mitigate strategic workloads to the cloud deployment models encompassing IaaS, PaaS, FaaS and SaaS. We provide the following summary core cloud adoption services in this regard:

• Enterprise architecture and cloud adoption

• Cloud adoption architecture design

• Cloud people structures, roles and change management

• Cloud governance models and business cases

• Cloud adoption platform and public cloud selection

• Cloud data security and privacy

• Cloud migration strategies

• Cloud operational SLA and platform management

• DevSecOps design and implementations

Industry
IT & Software
Company Size
51-200 employees
Headquarters
Johannesburg, ZA
Year Founded
1998
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