Manager - Fraud Analytics

Lourens Grove

Professional and Educational Outline

· SAS Certified Base Programmer

Professional Experience

Lourens Grove has more than ten years’ experience in data analysis and programming with a demonstrated history of working in the management consulting industry. Skilled in Business Process, Enterprise Risk Management, Internal Audit, Business Process Design, and Business Intelligence. He is a strong professional with a focused in Fraud Analytics.

Lourens’s main area of experience include:

  • Solution Development using C#

  • SAS Analytics (Data Profiling, Data Analytics including Advance Analytics techniques)

  • Audit Support (CAATS / Procurement Reviews)

  • Extract, transform and load (ETL) processes

  • Database Architecture Design & Build (MS SQL / Oracle)

  • What-If Analytics

  • Solution Optimisation

  • Data Visualisation (SAS Visual Analytics, Qlikview and Tableau)

He spent more than one year assisting in the development and refining of the simulation of a “One Account” banking product in one of South Africa’s premier private banks. The simulation of the product incorporates the functionality of a savings account, cheque account and credit card. The simulation enables the bank to reprocess all of their customer accounts from the inception of the account to present for the purposes of continuous auditing of the product, what if analysis and scenario planning.

Lourens also has experience working at two of the Big Four banks in South Africa where he was tasked to develop future pricing models based on historical input and redesigning current implemented BASAL II reporting models for regulatory reporting. He was also involved for more than one year at one of the Big Four banks where he and his team was tasked in standardising and cleansing data with the intent of migrating the Bank’s legacy online banking solution to their new online banking platform.

Lourens has performed multiple implementations of the SAS Fraud Framework for Proof of Concepts and Value. He has been involved in deploying the SAS Fraud Framework at South Africa’s Electricity Company for the intent of ongoing risk and fraud management in the Procurement Process. He has also been task to give ongoing support and training after implementing the SAS Fraud Framework for Procurement Integrity.