Job Description: Analytics Scientist - Risk Analytics

POSITION SUMMARY

The role of an Analytics Scientist in the Risk Analytics team is to understand and contribute their Analytical and logical skills to support the team in their day to day activities. The key requirement for the role is the ability to understand the business, develop data driven solutions to address business problems and provide analytic support to the risk analytics group. The individual will possess the ability to work in teams and display a proactive learning attitude.

Key responsibilities

• Monitoring key portfolio metrics and take data driven actions based on the performance
• Coming up with data driven solutions to control risk
• Finding opportunities to acquire more customers by modifying/optimizing existing rules
• Doing periodic upgrades of the underwriting strategy based on business requirements
• Evaluating 3rd party solutions for predicting/controlling risk of the portfolio
• Running periodic controlled tests to optimize underwriting

Business Knowledge: Develop an understanding of the domain/function. Manage business process (es) in the work area. The individual is expected to develop domain expertise in his/her work area.

Teamwork: Develop cross site relationships to enhance leverage of ideas. Set and manage partner expectations. Drive implementation of projects with Engineering team while partnering seamlessly with cross site team members.
Communication: Responsibly perform end to end project communication across the various levels in the organization.

SKILLS AND EXPERIENCE

• B. Tech from IIT
• Strong Analytical aptitude and logical reasoning ability
• Strong presentation and communication skills.
• Knowledge of analytical tools such as R/Python/SAS/SQL
• Preferred: Candidates with some project knowledge/ experience in Analytics.