AVP - Strategy & Modeling - Bank

About our Client

Our client is a leading global bank with significant growth plans for the India region. As part of growth of their captive center, they are looking for an AVP - Risk Analytics (Strategy & Modeling) to lead their analytics team based out of Mumbai supporting global geographies. They are looking for a highly talented, innovative and collaborative leader to grow the team of analytics professionals.

Job Description

Reporting into the Director, you would be responsible for:

- Driving credit risk policies in any of the following areas - authorizations, underwriting and existing customer management

- To define, analyze, implement, and monitor credit risk strategies.

- Strategy Development including Approve / Decline, Limit Assignment, Risk Based Pricing, Line Management, Authorizations, Re-pricing & Re-issue

- Developing understanding and changing regulatory environment to develop and recommend strategies that are suitable to the Business area

- Identify hiring and training needs for the team, make sound hiring decisions and implement a solid training plan to upskill both new hires and existing / tenured employees

- Drive innovation for self and the team to deliver incremental business value to the Region

The Successful Applicant

As a Successful Applicant, you need to have :

Education Qualifications:

- Bachelor's degree in a quantitative discipline: Mathematics, Economics, Operations Research, Statistics
Master's degree in a quantitative discipline: Mathematics, Economics, Operations Research, Statistics (Preferred)

Professional Experience:

- At least 7+ years of relevant experience in analytics preferably in the fields like Strategy Development, Loss Forecasting/Reserving , Modeling, Risk Strategy, Marketing etc.

- Excellent communication skills with technical (the team) and non-technical (senior entity management in region) counterparts

- Prior experience in managing Retail portfolios such as Mortgage, Cards, Loans and Overdrafts

- Prior experience with acquisition risk strategy, account management strategy or strategy analysis and portfolio management would be preferred

- Credit card industry experience especially in an analytics or policy role is preferred

- Strong analytical skills in conducting sophisticate analysis using bureau/vendor data, customer performance data and marketing data to solve business problems

- Good programming skills in advanced SAS and SQL in mainframe, UNIX and PC environments.
Highly proficient in Excel/pivot tables and PowerPoint.

What's on Offer

This is an excellent opportunity to develop your career within one of the prestigious financial services firms and head their fast growing analytics business.