Senior Data Analyst

Company: SPECTRUM
Location: Stamford
Posted on: November 20, 2020

Job Description:

Job Description The Credit Services Risk Management team is a large and complex critical function for company success. We are staffed with highly-skilled and motivated individuals with a large emphasis on analytical abilities & problem solving skills. The Sr. Data Analyst will provide critical analysis to enhance credit risk functions such as underwriting and/or collections. This person will be the central point of contact to drive business decisions by leveraging deep analytics. MAJOR DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES * Provide recommendations for new or enhanced strategies to reduce losses and to retain customers * Partner with others to build predictive models and/or to implement solutions in production processes * Ensures that programming tasks are completed before the deadline and are fully tested with minimal defects * Gather business requirements. This individual will need to work with leadership and business partners to identify data and reporting needs for analysis * Develop/select methodologies to derive answers to business problems * Analyze data to provide meaningful insights. This individual must have strong data manipulation and interpretation skills, and be able to quantitatively assess business problems * Identify data sources and data attributes across and outside the company that will support the business needs * Conduct analyses that drive meaningful change on key objectives established by senior Charter leadership * Synthesize actionable insights by joining together large data sets from across the company, and applying appropriate analytical techniques * Communicate findings clearly and concisely through narrative-driven presentations and effective data visualizations to Charter executives and decision makers * Develop analytic plans and testable hypotheses for key business questions raised by partners to ensure that all important questions are addressed fully, appropriately, and accurately * Perform other duties as may be requested by manager REQUIRED QUALIFICATIONS * Strong expertise in SQL * Business and quantitative analysis experience using packages such as SAS/Python/R * Ability to communicate orally and in writing in a clear and straightforward manner * Ability to plan, prioritize and organize effectively * Ability to adapt to change * Detail oriented, self-motivated, proactive and results driven * Highly energetic; ability to partner across business lines; a go-getter who seeks out information and does not wait for others to reach out PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS * Experience in scripting languages such as Java/Ruby/Perl. * Experience in using large databases; conducting complex analysis languages as noted above * Solving business problems through deep analytics * Ability to see patterns in the data where others are unable to; * Desire to use large databases and complex analysis to solve problems * Ability to explain complex analysis results in an easy-to-understand language * Advance skills in Excel, PowerPoint and Access * Excellent quantitative analysis skills * Ability to create conceptual frameworks enabling the analysis of varied business problems Education B.S. in quantitative sciences, including statistics, computer science, engineering, Business with focus on analytics. M.S. in a similar discipline preferred. Related Work Experience * 5+ years experience solving business problems through analytics (with a Bachelor's Degree) OR, * 2+ years experience solving business problems through analytics (with a Masters Degree) * Industry experience in Financial services, insurance or actuarial services or medical research perferred but not required WORKING CONDITIONS Office Environment

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