Analytics India Magazine - Data Analyst - BFSI Sector

Job Description :

- Housing Development Finance Corporation Limited (HDFC Ltd.) pioneered housing finance in India and has assisted 6.6 million Indians to own a home of their own thus far. Our extensive distribution network of 474 inter-connected offices (including 148 offices of HDFC Sales) caters to over 2,400 towns & cities across the country in our endeavour to serve the housing demand in India. We have 3 representative offices in Dubai, London and Singapore offering Home Loan products to Non-Resident Indians and Persons of Indian Origin. (Figures as on 31st March, 2018). HDFC has successfully emerged as the trusted ecosystem leader and has been voted the best managed financial services company with a proven track record of excellent corporate governance and value creation for its stakeholders.

- At HDFC Ltd, we're proud to stand at the forefront of the AI and ML revolution. Using the latest analytic tools and processes, we're able to maximize our offerings and deliver unparalleled service and support to stakeholders. To help carry us even further, we're searching for an experienced data analyst to join our team. The ideal candidate should be highly skilled in all aspects of data analytics, including mining, generation, and visualization. Additionally, you should be committed to transforming data into readable, goal-driven reports for continued innovation and growth.

Objectives of this Role :

- Develop, implement, and maintain leading-edge analytic systems, taking complicated problems and building simple frameworks

- Identify trends and opportunities for growth through analysis of complex data sets

- Evaluate organizational methods and provide source-to-target mappings and information-model specification documents for data sets

- Create best-practice reports based on data mining, analysis, and visualization

- Evaluate internal data systems for efficiency, problems, and inaccuracies, developing and maintaining protocols for handling, processing, and cleaning data

- Work directly with management and users to gather requirements, provide status updates, and build relationships

Daily and Monthly Responsibilities:

- Work closely with stakeholders to understand and maintain focus on their analytical needs, including identifying critical metrics and KPIs, and deliver actionable insights to relevant decision-makers

- Proactively analyze data to answer key questions from stakeholders or out of self-initiated curiosity with an eye for what drives business performance, investigating and communicating areas for improvement in efficiency and productivity

- Create and maintain rich interactive visualizations through data interpretation and analysis integrating various reporting components from multiple data sources

- Define and implement data acquisition and integration logic, selecting appropriate combination of methods and tools within defined technology stack to ensure optimal scalability and performance of the solution

- Develop and maintain databases by acquiring data from primary and secondary sources, and build scripts that will make our data evaluation process more flexible or scalable across data sets

Skills and Qualifications:

- Bachelor's degree/Master's degree in Mathematics, Computer Science, Economics, or Statistics

- 2+ years experience mining data as a data analyst, preferably in BFSI sector

- Proven analytic skills, including mining, evaluation, analysis, and visualization

- Technical writing experience in relevant areas, including queries, reports, and presentations

- Strong SQL and Excel skills with the ability to learn other analytic tools

Preferred Qualifications:

- Prior experience with data model design and segmentation techniques

- Strong programming experience with frameworks including XML, Javascript, and ETL

- Practical experience in statistical analysis through the use of statistical languages including R, Python

- Knowledge in Machine Learning and Statistical models

- Proven success in a collaborative, team-oriented environment