Job Description

The Opportunity

“ As part of our team, you will work closely with our clients on customized projects to design, develop, and deploy state-of-the-art, data-driven predictive models to solve business problems using the latest technologies in data mining, statistical modeling, pattern recognition, and performance inference.”– VP, Analytic Consulting.

What You’ll Contribute

• Design and develop state-of-the-art, data-driven exploratory analysis as well as predictive and decision models to solve business problems across the financial services industry.
• Build and evaluate predictive and decision models to be deployed in production systems, or for research. This includes the analysis of large amounts of historical data, determining suitability for modeling, data clean-up and filtering, pattern identification and variable creation, selection of sampling criteria and performance definition, and variable selection, and experiments with different types of algorithms and models, analyzing performance, to identify the best algorithms to employ.
• Mentor and coach junior team members.
• Set priorities and manage projects of medium to large scope; identify roadblocks and work to resolve them.
• Review project variances against deliverables; negotiate necessary changes without committing to the impossible, and engage in direct dialogue with client to achieve agreement on project outcomes.
• Adapt to changing environments, resources, and project demands.
• Establish appropriate model report format for communication with clients.
• Participate in pre-sales support and/or provide post-implementation support that may require travel.
• Create, review, and deliver formal presentations of work to clients.
• Participate in authoring white papers, proposals and publications.
  

What We’re Seeking

• BS degree in a statistics, engineering, mathematics, computer science, physics, operations research field (MS preferred)
• Significant hands-on experience conducting and driving medium/large predictive analytics engagements, exploratory data analysis, data management and data preparation.
• Experience analyzing data in order to draw conclusions about data integrity, accuracy, and general relationships with proficiency in analytic tools.
• Ability to anticipate, investigate and analyze database and data processing problems to pinpoint cause of problems and recommend possible solutions.
• Experience in financial services industry strongly preferred
• Ability to use object oriented languages such as Java/C++ and/or scripting languages such as Python/Perl to manipulate data for purposes of model development is a plus.

Our Offer to You

• A culture and work environment strongly reflecting our core values: Act Like an Owner, Delight Our Customers and Earn the Respect of Others.
• The opportunity to make a difference by leveraging your unique strengths.
• Highly competitive compensation and rewards.
• Flexible work options, opportunities to give back to your community, social events with colleagues and a comprehensive benefits program inclusive of progressive parental leave.