Assistant Vice President - Analytics - BFSI/Retail

- Natural curiosity and passion to drive change in consumer banking for the better.

- Hands-on experience in SAS & SQL.

- Having Knowledge on Statistical Modelling & Machine Learning techniques.

- Master's degree preferred in computer programming, computer science, mathematics, engineering, or other quantitative fields

- Proven analytical skills with strong attention to detail and quality control of work product.

- Ability to accurately condense large amounts of information and present in a simple, cogent manner to senior level management

- Experience in Financial Services or Retail industry

- Demonstrated excellent planning and organizational skills

- Experience collaborating with teams of internal and external technical staff, business analysts, software support and operations staff.

- Excellent interpersonal skills in areas such as teamwork, facilitation and presentation to business users or management teams.

- Demonstrated ability to quickly learn new languages and tools.

Essential Responsibilities:

- Support the development of the Analytics Platform initiative

- Lead Credit Innovation team and provide thought leadership to the team

- Engage with external and internal parties to understand data from different sources

- Analyze and explore datasets to find opportunities for fraud/credit innovation through data analytics.

- Independently extract, analyze & import data from multiple technology systems/platforms and related data sources into the analytics platform

- Partner with end-user appropriately configure/develop analytical working environments and reporting capabilities

- Partner with SME's across the organization to accelerate learning of data structure and contents

- Create metrics to measure/track the performance of initiatives

- Excellent communication skills to be able to present findings to senior management

- Work closely with rest of the team to provide necessary guidance and support

Qualifications/Requirements:

- Bachelor's degree and 8+ years- experience with data/analytics in the banking/financial services industry, credit/fraud strategy, modeling

- 3+ years hands-on experience in coding with Python, Spark, R, C++, Scala or another equivalent programming language.

- Experience in creating POC projects in banking/ retail domain and driving it to completion.

- Experience in leading the teams with diverse skillset