Manager - Acquisition Credit Strategy - BFSI

Position: Manager - Acquisition Credit Strategy

Role Summary/Purpose:

As a Manager you will have the opportunity to work on major business initiatives in the Credit Acquisition team that contribute to Financial's growth and productivity objectives. This role enables you to work directly with the business in catering to the end-to-end analytical needs. You will have the opportunity to work with cross-functional teams and leverage state of the art tools (viz., SAS, Model builder suite of products) and also expected to manage communication rhythm with stakeholders on a regular basis.

Essential Functions / Responsibilities:

- Develop and support Best-in-class analytic solutions/algorithms as part of Acquisition strategy team within the Credit analytics function

- Understand requirements and create reports based on adhoc requests & streamline processes.

- Leverage internal and external customer and account information - use numerical, computational and operations research techniques to solve for optimal customer acquisition and fraud strategies.

- Work closely with client/portfolio teams to develop and implement customer acquisition strategies across the businesses.

- Support tracking and reporting of champion/challenger strategy tests including preliminary analysis of the performance of the different strategies.

- Perform other duties and/or special projects as assigned.

Qualifications / Requirements:

- A minimum of 5 years of experience in Consumer Credit with a Degree in following Majors - Mathematics/Statistics, Operations Research,

- Economics, Computer Science/Engineering or other quantitative majors

- 5+ years of hands on experience in SAS, Unix, Excel.

- Strong communication skills with the ability to prepare clear communication and confidently present meaningful analysis to senior and executive management level.

- Knowledge of Logistical/Linear/Regressions CHAID/CART/Clustering techniques, Optimization (LP, NLP, Integer Programming), Simulation & Neural network tools.

- Experience in report automation using SAS, Unix, VBA

- Strong Team Player in cross-functional environment.

- Strong written/oral communication skills.

Desired Qualifications:

- Demonstrated experience analyzing business data with the ability to distill large amounts of information down to the critical areas of focus.

- Clear thinker with an ability to think through processes Proven ability to successfully interact with all levels of an organization

- Working knowledge of credit bureaus.

- Work experience in a US financial institution or bank.

- Systems Implementation experience.

- Knowledge of US, Canadian credit bureau dat