Consultant - Analytics - Financial Services

Education: - B.Tech./B.E./Master's Degree/M.Phil./MBA from reputed institute(s) with relevant experience 

- Finance/Risk certifications is a plus

Requirements:

The candidate needs to have the following:

- 4-7 years of work experience in the areas of advanced analytics and consulting

- Experience in executing and overseeing financial services client related work

- Academic background in economics/mathematics/quantitative techniques is a plus

- Work experience in analytics and consulting services environment

- Strong financial / econometric modeling focus;

- Demonstrated proficiency with advanced statistical/econometric modeling techniques and complex Excel-based spreadsheet models;

- Strong programming skills on Python, R, SQL. Experience with Spark & other big data query environments is a plus. Exposure to SAS is a plus.

- Experience with visualization tools (Tableau, PowerBI, etc.) & automation tools (alteryx, etc.)

- Sincere long-term interest in pursuing a private-sector consultancy career

- Strong verbal and written communication skills, and ability to interface effectively

- Experience in traditional analytics methodologies such as Regression (Linear, Logistic, etc.), segmentation, Cluster Analysis, CART/CHAID, etc.

- Exposure to advanced machine learning techniques like SVM, Random Forest, boosting techniques. Knowledge of text mining, neural networks is a plus.

- Exposure in Time series modeling

- Exposure in building PD/LGD Model and behavioral scorecard

Roles and Responsibilities: 

Leadership:

- Define the scope of work and identify opportunities for over-delivering, creating intellectual capital and building reusable methodology/approach/delivery components

- Mentor junior team members

- Project Delivery and Management

- Manage communication and project delivery between India and US teams

- Manage client expectations, presentations and act as subject matter expert on financial analytics discussions

- Responsible for checking the methodology and results used by team

- Responsible for quality assessment of project deliverables

- Help assess the impact of work, and conduct so-what analysis

- Develop storylines and make presentations

- Knowledge sharing on financial analytics project with the extended team.

Business Development:

- Engage with International clients and adapt to different market maturity stages and business needs

- Active contribution to business development and supporting pre-sales activities. - Act as Subject Matter Exp