Senior Specialist/Specialist - Data Analytics - Financial Services

What do we expect from you-

Learning Quotient: Having a continuous learning focus around math, science, technology/tools and business domain, taking efforts in increasing knowledge through self-learning and exploration utilizing the repertoire of learning resources available at disposal

Communication: Strong communication skills demonstrated through confident communication and Q&A with various stakeholders including 1:1 interactions with onshore partners

Business Understanding: Energy to quickly build a basic understanding of business and outcome drivers for financial services industry

Problem Solving through Analytics and Project Management: Time management and operational discipline with an approach to problem solving in a consultative and structured manner. Knowledge of data extraction, exposure to analytical tools and techniques and visualization tools.

Self-Development: Demonstrate high degree of self-review and evaluation as well as seeking peer / manager feedback for continuous improvement

How will your typical day look like :

- Interactions with colleagues over audio/video/in-person meetings and emails to catch up on work delivered and new requests received

- Synthesize structured and unstructured communication with partners to build work plan

- Frame an approach using your understanding of business, data and relevant questions at hand. One day it might be an easier solve with you working alone, on another day it may require digging around meeting other team members and collaborating to form an approach and execute.

- On some days, you will make time to attend knowledge sharing sessions on projects pertaining to your direct work area or what other team members are doing across different competencies and business verticals. You can pick up a thread from these interactions and then see how it can be applied to your projects working with other experts from other teams. Eventually, you will be on the giving end sharing your expertise with others.

- The day will stretch into evening with you talking to the onshore team, presenting insights from work you performed during the day and addressing concerns, if any

What we offer in return-

- Getting to see how analytics is applied to solve for real business problems at one of the largest financial services company in the world. You get to see and question where the problem emanated from and where your work was applied to make a difference

- High respect for individuals and their talent in an extended team model where the offshore team is seen as a part of the larger global analytics team

- Confluence of different analytics disciplines in one place working to solve problems across different business verticals

- Working with top notch talent with great depth in research and analytics experience combined with domain and business understanding to make their efforts stick

Education and Experience

- Masters in statistics/economics/management/operations research from a reputed university

- 3- 8 years of overall analytics experience