Practice Lead - BFSI Analytics

As the practice leader for BFSI - Analytics, the individual will be required to,

- Lead the practice from a growth, thought leadership, strategic direction and IP-based solution creation standpoint

- Conceive and develop differentiated offerings for our clients in analytics w/ special focus on IP-led solution development

- Own & run pursuits and business development effort for BFSI analytics - both reactive RFPs & pro-active pitches

- Collaborate with other practices, especially data/information sciences and digital for bundled offerings

- Team development and mentoring the next line

- Develop thought leadership through PoVs, blogs, white papers

Detailed Job description:

- 12-15 years of overall experience with at least 5+ years in a core analytics role, including 2+ in leadership role

- Previous experience (prior to the 5+ years recent analytics experience) can be in a domain / consulting / pre-sales / business development role with mature IT services company or core BFSI company like a bank etc.

- Should have very good depth in banking and also should have reasonable exposure to areas like investment banking & Insurance

- Should have good understanding and experience in many of the following functional areas in banking - Customer side (acquisition, CRM, Customer experience) Sales and marketing & Regulatory (risk management, operations, fraud control) etc.

- Should have good depth and understanding of BFSI industry - Investment drivers, challenges, and regulations and how analytics can address some of these

- Exposure to use of big data and analytics based on big data in retail banking

- Should have good understanding of big data platforms and tools

- Experience of creating IP (intellectual property) based solutions / accelerators

- Should have built analytical models and applications using R, Python, SAS (experience in at least 1 and exposure to others) etc.

- Should have solutions mindset and experience business development and presales activities - including creating customer PoVs, pro-active solution pitches etc.

- Good oral and written communication and has the ability to lead sales presentations to customers

- Thought leadership - blogs, research papers, IP creation experience is a HUGE plus