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Lead Data Science Analyst

Lead Data Science Analyst

CompanyDiscover
LocationWheeling, IL, USA
Salary$105500 – $147100
TypeFull-Time
DegreesBachelor’s, Master’s
Experience LevelMid Level, Senior

Requirements

  • Bachelors Analytics, Engineering and Statistics or related
  • 4+ years Credit Risk, Fraud Risk, Marketing Analytics, Optimization, Operations Analytics, Modeling/Data Science or related

Responsibilities

  • Responsible for working closely with management to execute analytical initiatives.
  • Responsible for solving business problem by leveraging techniques such as segmentation, optimization, advanced analytics and machine learning.
  • Reviews and provides effective challenge to credit strategies including underlying assumptions, vintage analysis and expected impacts.
  • Evaluate credit strategy performance against expectations and opine on source/cause of variances.
  • Actively manages and escalates risk and customer-impacting issues within the day-to-day role to management.
  • Conduct and support detailed review of credit strategy proposals using tools such as SQL, SAS, Python, Tableau, Snowflake.
  • Leads the development and implementation of advanced analytics including customer segmentation, optimization, prescriptive analytics and machine learning algorithm & recommendation to solve business problems.
  • Operates as a subject matter expert on statistical analysis, test and design of experiment, analysis methodology, modeling & application, and financial impact analysis.
  • Collaborates with cross-functional partners to understand their business needs, formulate and complete end-to-end analysis that includes data gathering, analysis, ongoing scaled deliverables and presentations.
  • Delivers effective presentations of findings and recommendations to multiple levels of leadership, creating visual displays of quantitative information.
  • Establishes and maintains effective performance tracking; identify improvement opportunity, form hypothesis, proposes, designs and implements tests to drive strategy enhancement and optimization.
  • Manages multiple priorities, communicate business performance and project progress to management & business partners.
  • Develops and automates reports, iteratively build and prototype dashboards to provide insights at scale, solving for analytical needs.
  • Facilitates implementation of work product and ensure accuracy.
  • Consistently follows standard work processes and documentation requirements.
  • Recommends improvement to work processes to increase efficiency while maintaining quality of work.
  • Continuously improves technical and leadership skills through training and development.

Preferred Qualifications

  • Masters Analytics, Engineering, Mathematics and Statistics