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Analytics Consultant / SAS / Financial Services Industry
Workplace: Warszawa
Job Description:
Join the Capability Network in Warsaw and become part of the next generation of Management Consulting. Working with prestigious global brands and organizations around the world, you will provide deep and strategic industry, functional or analytical expertise, irrespective of client location, to help them target and deliver new sources of value and confront their most strategic challenges. You will enjoy real variety of consulting projects with diverse clients and unique challenges. Your impact will be truly global as you leverage an unmatched network of people, knowledge, tools and technology and work alongside some of the best thinkers in the industry.
Currently we are expanding the Capability Network Team in Warsaw and we are looking for experienced and accomplished Analytics professionals.
Working Conditions:
- Headquarter: Warsaw as primary place of work
- Willing to work at client's locations mostly across Europe, but also other locations, for short or long term
- Willing to travel min. 50% (annual) of time and could be more. Travel is required and may be 80%-100% on a weekly basis on some projects (typically Monday - Friday) for some periods during the year
- Minimum Master's degree in discipline like Mathematics, Informatics, Physics, Statistics, Quantitative Finance from an university of repute
- Excellent English communication skills (written & spoken) and good level of the other foreign language e.g. German, Italian, Russian, French, Spanish would be an asset
- 4+ years of overall experience within industry or consulting (preferred) with an international exposure in Banking or Insurance sector
- Experience in one or more of the following areas:
- data mining, data modeling, statistical analysis, predictive modeling, insight generation, analysis of marketing databases, customer segmentation, customer profiling, acquisition models, retention models, cross-selling models
- development and validation of various categories of risk models including credit, market, operational etc.; quantification and validation of Basel parameters, i.e. PDs, LGDs and EADs; VaR and exposure modeling, stress testing, capital & liquidity modeling, counterparty risk
- Deep knowledge of SAS. Other tools like SQL, Matlab, Cognos, R, SPSS, KXEN, Hadoop and other data management tools will be an asset
- Ability to derive insights from large amounts of data from diverse sources
- Strong aptitude, ability, motivation and interest in placing quantitative analysis in the context of marketing and business economics
- Understanding of various statistical techniques like regression including logistic and OLS, Monte Carlo simulation, classification and forecasting techniques
- Experience in planning and executing quantitative analytical projects will be an asset
- Understanding of ETL and/ or participation in Data Warehouse projects and design will be an asset
- Should possesses consulting experience
- Possesses excellent communication (written and oral) skills and excellent presentation skills
- Comfortable functioning in a broadly positioned and highly diverse consulting firm
- Excellent team work and ability to work in distributed delivery environment
- Skilled in using MS Excel and MS PowerPoint
- Should have team management and project delivery experience
- Should express business development abilities
- Permanent employment contract
- Attractive benefits package
- Challenging job in a professional and multinational environment
- Opportunity to gain skills, knowledge and experience, together with highly marketable specialists
- Opportunity to work with Global TOP Clients on large projects
- Core training program in US headquarter
- Dynamic, international working environment
All of our consulting professionals receive comprehensive training covering business acumen, technical and professional skills development. You'll also have opportunities to hone your functional skills and expertise in an area of specialization. We offer a variety of formal and informal training programs at every level to help you acquire and build specialized skills faster. Learning takes place both on the job and through formal training conducted online, in the classroom, or in collaboration with teammates. The sheer variety of work we do, and the experience it offers, provide an unbeatable platform from which to continue building your career.