Business Analyst

Profiles is hiring a Business Analyst for a top-tier financial organization on a contract basis that will run through the EOY. 3-days a week on-site is required

Summary: As a Senior Business Analyst, you will apply your strategic and analytical skills to major company challenges. Work collaboratively to develop and test strategies that ultimately impact the bottom line in an environment that values your insight, encourages you to take on new responsibility, promotes continuous learning, and rewards innovation.

General Responsibilities:

• Analysis: Identify business challenges and opportunities for improvement and solve for them using analysis to make strategic or tactical recommendations
• Product: Perform modeling/analytics to assist new product and pricing strategies for various lending products
• Marketing: Support direct-to-consumer marketing efforts for select products, and strategic intent for products distributed through the retail channel. Help build targeted insights to inform the design and development of new customer experiences, as well as breakthrough technology and concepts designed to deliver on new go-to-market strategies
• Credit Risk: Support step-change improvements in credit performance by connecting drivers of future consumer credit trends to historical behavior, creating risk models, and testing hypotheses using rigorous monitoring and analysis
• Execution: Involve problem frameworks, develop hypotheses, test and analysis, solution development, scope operational feasibility, lead implementation efforts, and develop a monitoring plan
• Partnership: Work closely with colleagues across the company including IT, Sales, Operations, Finance, and others, to drive improvement in quality, volume, service, and profitability
• Strategic & analytic orientation: A proven track record of decision-making and problem-solving based on analytics. Conceptual thinking skills must be complemented by a strong quantitative orientation, given that a large part of the business is based on rigorous analytic marketing & credit risk management
• Strong business judgment, leadership, and integrity: He/she should be a tenacious decision maker, able to bring a healthy, aggressive, yet responsible approach to business
• Strong communication skills: Impeccable written and oral communication credentials, coupled with strategic influencing skills and the ability to drive agreement through intellect, interpersonal, and negotiation skills
• Clear results orientation: display an intense focus on achieving both short-term and long-term goals. He/she should be able to drive and execute an agenda in an uncertain and fluid environment
• Successful track record of thriving in a fast-paced, entrepreneurial, and dynamic environment. Previous consulting experience is a plus

Qualifications:

• Bachelor’s Degree in any quantitative field (Business, Math, Economics, Finance, Statistics, Science, Engineering)
• At least 1 year of experience in analysis
• Master’s Degree in Business or quantitative field such as Finance, Economics, Physical Sciences, Math, Statistics, Engineering (preferred)
• 1+ years of experience in Statistical model building (preferred)
• 1+ years of experience in market research (preferred)
• 1+ years of experience in SQL querying (preferred)
• 2+ years of experience in business analysis (preferred)
• 1+ years of experience in consulting (preferred)