Location: Jersey City, NJ, United States

Job responsibilities: 

• Lead the design and implementation of analytics solutions, ensuring alignment with business objectives and integration with business processes.

• Provide thought leadership and client management, offering strategic direction to drive business decisions and enhance customer/employee experience.
• Develop, plan, and execute multiple analytical projects, stakeholder meetings, and facilitating discussions with senior leaders.
• Support a product design discipline to deliver scalable data products informed by analytics.
• Identify, Align, Manage, develop, and retain talent, fostering an environment of open communication and fair performance assessment.
• Identify new project opportunities to grow the business pipeline and evaluate upcoming AI-based tools for strategic adoption.
• Serve as an Analytics Solutions Lead, guiding junior Analytics Solutions analysts/associates to solve business problems that drive qualitative and quantitative business value,  and when necessary, as an individual contributor.
• Leverage Design Thinking practices to develop strategic, end-to-end, scalable solutions; coach others to inject the same practices into their work.
• Guide project teams in synthesizing analytical findings for consumption by internal analytical clients and senior executives.
• Establish and manage relationships with internal clients and partners.
• Identify new project opportunities helping to grow our business pipeline for respective books of work.
• Recruit, develop and retain talent by creating an environment of open communication that prioritizes continued learning and growth.
• Lead internal FAST initiatives to set the strategic direction of FAST, enable the team to operate at scale in a global operating model, and strengthen the team culture, locally and globally.
• Maintain a rigorous controls environment to ensure accurate and timely results.
• Set standards of excellence for the team by demonstrating professional expertise, strong work ethic, integrity and professional behavior.

 

 

Required qualifications, capabilities, and skills:

• Excellent communication, with an ability to convey the strategic vision in a digestible manner for varying technical and senior audiences
• Experience with design thinking practices and tools (e.g., Lucid, Figma, customer journey mapping) and product management principles (e.g., Agile)
• 4+ years of industry experience in consulting, banking analytics, or other relevant business analytics roles (e.g., marketing analytics, sales analytics, business insights)
• Consulting orientation with ability to influence and effectively lead cross-functional teams
• Experience leading project teams and coaching/mentoring early career talent, and improving team culture of a new or existing team
• Self-starter with out-of-the box problem solving skills and a drive to bring new ideas to life
• Strong time management skills, with ability to multi-task and keep multiple projects on track
• Experience with data analytics and/or visualization techniques (e.g. SQL, Python, Tableau, Alteryx)
• Experience and knowledge of data science and analytical methodologies and approaches, and familiarity with various artificial intelligence functionalities
• Experience managing a team and developing talent.
• Strong time management skills and experience with project management tools.

 

Preferred qualifications, capabilities, and skills:

• Deep understanding of the financial services or retail banking industry.

• MBA or other Master's degree

• Experience with data wrangling, data analytics techniques, and/or visualization techniques (e.g. SQL, Python, Tableau) 

The Focused Analytics Solutions Team (FAST) is a centralized team that develops and executes actionable data science and analytical solutions in a consulting-style environment, while placing a premium on creative, practical problem solving and superior client interaction. An equally important part of the FAST mission is to facilitate classroom and apprenticeship style training and development for the next generation of data and analytics talent. The team works on a large range of strategic, highly visible projects with internal clients such as CCB Strategy, Corporate Development, and AML / KYC as well as analytics teams aligned to Consumer Banking, Home Lending, Card Services, Business Banking, Auto Finance, Digital, Marketing, and more. We develop data-centric solutions that move the bottom line for the firm, and this role is a unique opportunity to have meaningful impact on a large scale at a leading financial services firm.