Senior Analyst - Risk Analytics - BFSI

Role Outline

The role of Senior Analyst - Risk Analytics is based in Chennai and reports to the Manager/Sr. Manager leading the team.

The key requirement for the role is the ability to understand the business, develop data driven solutions to address business problems and provide analytic support to the risk analytics group. The individual will possess the ability to work in teams and display a proactive learning attitude.

Preferred:

- 2-4 years of experience in Financial Services/Analytics Industry

- Understanding of the financial services business

- Experience in working on advanced machine learning techniques

Key responsibilities

- Key responsibilities include

Building models to predict risk and other key metrics

Coming up with data driven solutions to control risk

Finding opportunities to acquire more customers by modifying/optimizing existing rules

Doing periodic upgrades of the underwriting strategy based on business requirements

Evaluating 3rd party solutions for predicting/controlling risk of the portfolio

Running periodic controlled tests to optimize underwriting

Monitoring key portfolio metrics and take data driven actions based on the performance

- Business Knowledge: Develop an understanding of the domain/function. Manage business process (es) in the work area. The individual is expected to develop domain expertise in his/her work area.

- Teamwork: Develop cross site relationships to enhance leverage of ideas. Set and manage partner expectations. Drive implementation of projects with Engineering team while partnering seamlessly with cross site team members.

- Travel - Should be flexible to travel between Noida and Chennai frequently.

- Communication: Responsibly perform end to end project communication across the various levels in the organization.

Candidate Specification:

Skills:

- Knowledge of analytical tools such as R/Python/SAS/SQL

- Established competency in statistical modeling

- Experience in handling complex data sources

- Dexterity with MySQL, MS Excel

- Strong Analytical aptitude and logical reasoning ability

- Strong presentation and communication skills.

- Strong process/project management skill