Analyst - Economics - US Consulting Firm - DSE/ISI

Analyst - Economics (DSE/ISI) - Fresher - Females Only

- The job is for the top US Consulting company. The Advanced Analytics Team within the organization leverages anonymous transaction data, big data analytics and quantitative methods for experimental design, statistical testing, propensity modeling, marketing modeling, credit risk modeling, and forecasting.

Required Skills & Abilities :

Analytics & Insight :

- Highly organized with strong attention to detail

- Research and development of quantitative based solutions to support business partners and stakeholders

- Creatively develop & synthesize insights into actions

- Data mining, model development, time series analysis, forecasting

- Data reduction, including principal component analysis and factor analysis

- Ability to quickly pick up new tools, technologies, and methodologies

Major Responsibilities :

- Analyze large volumes of transaction and customer data to generate insights and actionable recommendations to drive business growth.

- Build behavioral scorecards for target marketing and risk management solutions using econometric and statistical modeling techniques

- Create highly predictive models using segmentation and regression techniques to drive profits

- Knowledge of metrics, measurements, and benchmarking to complex and demanding solutions across multiple industry verticals

- Generate key hypotheses and independently structure work at the work stream or project level

- Synthesize analyses into clear, sound recommendations, take responsibility for structuring and writing reports and client ready presentations from a work stream or project level.

- Collect and synthesize feedback from clients, project delivery analysts, and sales teams for new solutions or product enhancements. Provide design specifications, functional and technical requirements for development of new products and solutions.

- Review analytics end-products to ensure accuracy, quality and timeliness.

- Proactively seek new knowledge and structures project work to facilitate the capture of Intellectual Capital with minimal oversight

- Develop effective working relationships with local and global teams including business partners

- If necessary, travel to client sites in India or international locations to deliver analytics projects by collaborating with global teams and clients

Communications :

- Excellent oral and written communication skills

- Aptitude in displaying and communicating data analysis

- Demonstrate active listening

Team Contribution and Engagement Management :

- High energy level; flexible, adaptive and inquisitive

- Valued team contributor and team player who also works well independently

- Well planned, organized & structured to manage time & work effectively

- Uses coaching & development effectively

Education, Qualifications and Experience :

Education Needed :

- Master degree in Economics and Statistics, Computer Science, Finance, or related quantitative discipline with an emphasis on analytics and business applications is required.

Experience Needed :

- 0-1 years hands on work experience

- Experience with SQL, SAS

- Experience with PC and UNIX environments

- Experience in the Financial Services industry a plus