Lead - Predictive Modeling - BFSI

On an Embark for a Lead - Predictive Modeling, The role will involve taking accountability of end to end client management including analytics deliverables with the support of a team & be the SPOC for the client for all client interactions. The role will be expected to engage with the client from a Business & Data perspective to engage with the client in terms of solutions to be offered.

- The person holding this position will be responsible for leading the solution development and implementing advanced analytical approaches across a variety of projects, industries and solutions.

- Successful candidates are expected to have a mix of analytical, functional and project management skills, someone who can work with business requirements and develop them into a useable and scalable solution, someone who fully understands the value proposition of data mining and analytical methods, someone who has the creativity to develop unique analytical approaches to problems when required and someone who can lead a team of analysts to delivering projects on time and as per client and senior management expectations

Responsibilities :

- Understand business requirements to translate business problems into analytics problems and construct analysis road-map based on the business context

- Manage large volumes of structured and unstructured data, extract & clean data to make it amenable for analysis

- Analyse big data using statistics, econometric, mathematics, operations research, and text mining techniques

- Develop good visualization to communicate business insights from analysis and make actionable recommendations

- Help deploy analytics solutions and enable tracking of business outcomes to measure return on investment

- Keep up with cutting edge analytics techniques and tools in the continuously evolving area of decision science

- Direct/Lead Project teams consisting of analysts & consultants in terms of planning, execution, motivating to perform and managing quality excellence

- Effective utilization and resource management by monitoring and assessing project resources, relinquish resources or request additional resources as needed

- Mitigate the risks associated with successful project plan completion

- Client/Customer engagement & management

- Assist in developing/coaching individuals technically as well as on soft skills during the project

Qualification :

- 5+ years of work in statistical modelling and business analysis role

- Bachelors/Masters in Economics, Engineering, Mathematics, IT, Statistics and MBA/PGDBM

Skills :

- Aware of various statistical analysis methods such as Regression, Logistic regression, decision trees, other segmentation methods and technical expertise in one of these techniques

- Simulation & Mathematical optimization models

- Time series forecasting methods

- Hands on experience in statistical modelling software such as SAS or R

- Strong Microsoft Excel, Access and PowerPoint skills (VBA & SQL experience preferred)