Assistant Director - Econometric Modeling Advisory - Big4

For this role, desired skillsets are :

- Strong academic and professional background in Economics, Business or Industrial Economics and Econometrics

- Good understanding of macro and micro economics and exposure in applying these concepts for analytics and forecasting.

- Ability to guide team on the best way to synthesize relevant information from huge datasets and producing insights that are relevant as per the business needs

- Knowledge and application of core data science and advanced analytics methods, such as statistics, segmentation & clustering, predictive modelling, simulation, and optimization in varied scenarios depending on the project requirements

Familiarity with a broad base of statistical and analytics tools as below and expertise in a few of them :

- Tools like Eviews, SPSS etc

- Analytics Platforms (R, SAS)

- Data Management (Excel, SQL, Alteryx)

- Data Visualization (Tableau, Spotfire)

- Programming or scripting experience (Python,VBA)

Job requirements -

To qualify, candidates must have:

- Proven experience of 10 years + in developing and growing practices to serve new markets or provide new offerings, including ability to hold strategic conversations with stakeholders in senior and decision-making positions

- People management experience of 5+ years, including recruiting, training, performance appraisals and overall team development

- Excellent analytical, communication, organizational, interpersonal and teaming skills

- Willingness and ability to travel, when necessary

KRAs :

- Stay abreast of current business and economic developments relevant to our as well as the client's business

- Manage a team of professionals and ensure that workflow is seamless and well managed with on time delivery of engagements /projects

- Identify issues and propose strategies related to the procedures executed

- Demonstrate teamwork and responsibility by engaging with team members

- Manage own time to budgets and communicate progress against plan to assignment manager

- Specific engagement responsibilities will include end to end project delivery starting from scoping a project and breaking it down to smaller tasks with timelines attached, to allocation to review and delivery.

- Guiding and coaching team members and preparing the team to take on more complicated tasks

- Assess how to increase the effectiveness of services provided with use of better tools and techniques