American Express - Business Analyst - SAS/SQL/Statistics - IIM/IIT/DSE/XLRI/NITIE/MDI/FMS

Job Description :

The candidate would be placed in the Risk & Information Management -Centre of Excellence in a Decision Science/Strategy role and would be required to work on US or International Card portfolios.

- Develop and enhance existing statistical models by leveraging best-in-class modeling techniques. Models could belong to Customer Acquisition, Underwriting or Customer Management stages of the card member lifecycle.

- Lead the analytics for driving billing, revenue growth and profitability through diverse analytical projects spanning across Line Management, Yield Management, Lending on Charge and Central Lending Capabilities.

- Enhance the economic logic, optimization models and business rules to maximize through the Cycle returns for all business functions.

- Application of machine learning techniques to complement existing conventional prediction framework.

- Exploration of new Information sources to create predictive attributes that provide incremental discrimination over and above existing framework.

- Partnering with other Teams to develop System Capabilities and other predictive logic(s) that will help in more optimal downstream decisioning.

Qualifications :

- Post Graduate/Masters Degree In Business Administration, Statistics, Mathematics, Economics, Engineering Or related fields from tier 1 premium institutes only (IIM, IIT, DSE, XLRI, NITIE,MDI,FMS etc)

- (2013, 2014 and 2015 batch only)

- Prior experience In SAS/SQL programming and/or statistical modeling would be preferred

- Ability to learn quickly and work independently with complex, unstructured initiatives

- Flexibility and adaptability to work within tight deadlines and changing priorities

- Strong communication & interpersonal skills with ability to work effectively in a team environment