Prudential - Assistant Manager - Predictive Analytics

PPMS is Prudential UK's shared services operation based in Mumbai, India. Incorporated on 4th October 2002, PPMS provides a range of services including Customer Operations, IT Services, Finance, Risk, Audit, Knowledge Services and Sourcing.

Overall job purpose :

Independently work on as well as lead projects in the areas of - Risk and Fraud Analytics, Customer Analytics, Digital Analytics, Distribution Analytics, Marketing Analytics, Operations Analytics and HR Analytics - for UK, Asia and US geographies

- Lead projects independently that involve

Statistical modelling (predictive analytics, forecasting, segmentation), data analysis and mining

Analytical solutioning skills

Pre-sales and business development support

- Core experience in predictive modelling preferably with Financial Services or E-commerce

- Manage projects independently and mentor and guide team members

- Manage Stakeholder Relationships

- People management for small function teams within Analytics vertical

- Expert in any one of: R, Python, SQL, SAS, SPSS

- Preferred experience in Risk or Fraud/neural network analytics or exposure with digital data

Competencies required -

- 4-7 years of experience in the Analytics / Quantitative modelling or closely related field

- Master's in Statistics / Operations Research / Econometrics / Financial Engineering or related areas with a Bachelor's in Engineering / Science / Statistics / Operations Research / Economics or related fields

- Expertise in a few of the statistical platforms such as SPSS / SAS / R / SQL /Python/ SPSS - Clementine

- Expertise in applying advanced predictive statistical techniques to develop regression, time-series, segmentation models. Exposure to design of experiments or neural network.

- Basics of database management systems

- Advanced skill in MS-Applications (Word, Excel, PowerPoint)

- Visual Basic for Applications for MS Office

- Ability to summarise and effectively present complex analytical insights, observations and recommendations to an audience using business language

- Excellent oral and written communication skills

- Ability to work alone or with limited supervision

- Responsibility and Attention to Detail - Take responsibility for delivery of precise and accurate analyses, models, dashboards and reports to tight timescales and work to resolve problems when they occur

- Project management skills - ability to scope business requirements, plan series of activities and schedule them within a small project team (AM + 1 Analyst)

- People leadership skills - coaching, career counselling, mentoring and capability development

- Excellent stakeholder management skills - networking, identifying solution gaps and excellent service oriented minds-et