The role holder is responsible for identifying, designing, and delivering cross-functional analytics use cases that will enhance the BUs/FUs decision-making abilities, including dashboards, reports, tools, solutions, real-time and interactive analysis, as well as forward predictive analysis required for effective business decision-making. The role holder also ensures the allocation of resources to the different advanced analytics projects and the nature of support to be provided to the business units when required.
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Job Responsibilities
- Selects and leads a team of advanced analytics experts and data scientists (SWAT team) to serve cross-sector and strategic (CEO type) requests.
- Ensures collaboration between the SWAT team and BU specific insight specialists and data scientists to provide additional capacity or guidance to meet internal BU analytical needs.
- Supports the BUs/FUs need for complex and standardized analytics requests by allocating analytical resources from the SWAT team.
- Proposes cross-functional analytics use cases based on available data and needs from the BUs/FUs.
- Prioritizes implementation of cross-functional analyses based on the assessment of value creation potential for the company.
Requirements
- 5+ years of experience in analytics and BI, with at least 3 years in big data.
- Prior experience in Telco or Financial Services (Information Products) or e-commerce.
- Proven experience in defining complex models that include mobile, digital, and social data.
- Expert in predictive algorithms including K-means, Naïve-Bayes, etc.
Skills
- Good analytical and organizational skills.
- Proficient in planning and organizing.
- Decision-making and problem-solving skills.
- Good risk management skills.
- Excellent communication skills.
Education
- Bachelor Degree in Computer Science or Information Technology.
Additional Education Certifications
- Relevant certification in applicable Business Intelligence Suite/Tools (Oracle, MS Business Productivity Suite, Cognos, etc.).
- Relevant certification in Business Intelligence (Certified Business Intelligence Professional).
- Relevant certification in applicable Data Integration Tools (Informatica, SAS, Pentaho, etc.).
- Relevant certification in Software Quality Management systems/tools.
- Relevant certification in Unix/Shell Scripting, PL/SQL.
