Econ One Research - Senior Economic Analyst

Position Title : Senior Analyst

Experience : 3-6 years

Employment Type : Permanent/Full-Time

Location : Connaught Place, New Delhi

Educational Qualification : Masters in Economics

Job Requirement :

We are looking for a candidate with a strong hold in base and advanced SAS programing (advance sql, macros, loops, etc.) with sound knowledge of economics and econometrics/statistical concepts

- Substantial experience in programming skills in SAS

- Excellent attention to detail for flagging issues and key observations in data

- Good knowledge of microeconomic, statistics, and econometrics concepts

- Ability to present statistical results in clear and concise manner

- Ability to work independently with data and devise efficient methods of handling large data and undertake analysis

- Good working knowledge of MS Excel, MS Word, MS Powerpoint

- Knowledge of Stata/Python/R/SQL would be an added advantage

- Can work efficiently under tight deadlines with high level of accuracy

- Team player and ability to meet short and long term goals with flexible working hours

- Ability to quickly adapt to other statistical tool, if required

- Proven record of the highest ethical standards is non-negotiable

Key Role and Responsibilities :

- Processing and cleaning large datasets in SAS to be used for analysis

a. Handle large datasets (importing, cleaning, summarizing, and visualizations) in various formats - excel, txt, csv

b. Clean numeric (including datetime variables) and string variables in datasets

c. Identify issues with data and perform sanity checks

d. Summarize data

- Produce report quality tables, graphs etc. with minimum supervision

- Write down statistical results articulately

- Work closely with team members in data analysis. Also, coordinate and work with US colleagues on various data related requests

- Audit work output of co-workers using efficient methods

- Mentor team members on advanced programming

- Assist team with secondary research tasks if required