Advanced Analytics Manager - SAS / SQL - Cardiff
- Location:
- Cardiff jobs
,
South Glamorgan jobs
- Salary:
- £40000 to £55000 per annum - Car, London Weighting, Bonus, Pension et
- Company:
- Aspire Data Recruitment
- Job type:
- Permanent jobs
- Date posted:
- 06/11/2009 18:56
- Job id:
- 45884677
- Contact:
- Phillip Hartley
- Ref:
- Totaljobs/A13-06-11 -09
Job Title: Statistical Modelling Manager ? Advanced Analytics
Start: January 10
Location: Cardiff
Salary: £40,000 - £55,000 + Bonus, Car, etc...
Overview
- Lead and develop a team of Modelling and Analytical experts to ensure that Retail Decision Science builds excellent Retail Credit Risk models.
- Communicate and work with business stakeholders to build appropriate plans and manage the team to deliver against these plans.
- Provide technical leadership and coaching to Senior Analysts and Analysts in the team, and work with Decision Science Senior Managers to support and develop wider initiatives across the team.
- Develop and raise awareness of best practices within all aspect of Decision Science Modelling and Analytics.
- Work with the business to prepare business cases and resource plans for individual model developments. Project manage individual model development projects as well as managing the activities of teams working on such developments, to ensure that high quality models are delivered on time that meet business requirements and can be implemented.
- Manage a team of statistical specialists to ensure that their contribution to the business is optimised and that staff are developed to their maximum potential and that their overall capacity is increased, avoiding key skill dependencies.
Candidate Profile
- A good degree in a numerate subject, preferably at a postgraduate level, and preferably in a relevant subject (maths, statistics, operational research, economics).
- At least 4 years experience in the development of risk statistical models.
- Experienced and competent in the use of statistical packages e.g. SAS (including dealing with large datasets) and model development environments.
- Experienced in the extraction and manipulation of data to support risk model development, including defining observation periods, outcome periods, choosing a suitable "bad" definition.
- Good team management, project management and communication (both written and verbal) skills, including the ability to lead and motivate others.
- A high level of creativity, drive, innovation and initiative.
- Good time management and people management skills.
- A natural ability with numbers, with the ability to work quickly and at a high level of detail and accuracy.
Please send your CV to phillip@aspiredata.co.uk.
