Senior Analyst-Data Analytics (Card Lending Analytics, GCS Product Analytics)

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Overview of the Business:

Global Commercial Services (GCS) is the leading payment issuer and partner for businesses with products and services that help them grow and run their businesses. The GCS Product Analytics team plays a pivotal role within the GCS Products organization by applying advanced analytics and statistical methodologies to drive deep insights into client behavior. Our mission is to inform and shape product strategies and deliver connected, personalized experiences that foster deeper client engagement and drive balanced, profitable growth.

Within GCS Product Analytics, the Small Business Card Lending Analytics team seeks to benefit the Small Businesses by delivering actionable data-based insights that enable strategic decisions. The Senior Analyst - Card Lending Analytics, will be responsible for building new analytical data assets and generating valuable insights using advanced statistical and analytical techniques that accelerate the growth of our SBS card portfolio and deepen lending engagement. This role represents an outstanding opportunity to apply quantitative skills to influence business strategy and requires good relationship management skills to partner with multiple stakeholders. The ideal candidate will bring an outstanding balance of technical skills combined with a strategic mindset and the ability to communicate effectively.

Responsibilities:

• Partner cross-functionally with Product, Risk Management, Marketing, and Finance teams to provide analytical input in supporting product strategic decisions and evaluating SBS Card lending feature performance
• Apply advanced analytics in analyzing customer usage data across SBS Card products to drive in-depth understanding of how customers engage with lending products, identify areas of product friction, improve customer experience, deepen lending engagement and drive customer value
• Build behavior and financial based portfolio segmentation and develop segment-based treatment strategies in partnership with cross-functional partners; measure test campaign results and continuously apply learnings
• Develop expertise of SBS charge and lend data sources and metrics, leverage new data sources/intelligence and build data dictionaries / metric definitions to understand and analyze our SBS Card customer base
• Build automated self-service Tableau dashboards tracking SBS charge and lend performance, perform ad hoc analysis for portfolio performance tracking, monitor variance from actuals across drivers and understand associated drivers, and communicate results across teams

Critical Factors to Success:

• Strong analytical skills and initiative in tackling complex business analysis; Ability and desire to dive deeply into data, relentlessly pursuing its meaning and how these insights can drive business performance
• Prior experience building balanced data assets using cloud-based analytical tools, querying languages, and visualization software (e.g., SQL, Python, Databricks, Tableau)
• Familiarity with statistical methods and concepts
• Teammate with proven ability to influence and collaborate across all parts of an organization
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills with the ability to explain technical concepts and analytics-driven findings to non-technical stakeholders

Minimum Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree required and Master’s degree or equivalent experience preferred in following areas: Statistics, Economics, Mathematics, Engineering, Business, Finance, Computer Science, or related quantitative fields.
• 2+ years professional experience driving performance optimization through the application of advanced decision sciences.
• Hands-on expertise using statistical analysis and data manipulation software/tools (e.g. SAS, SQL, and Big Data analytic techniques).

Preferred Qualifications

• Good understanding of the card economics. Experience in credit risk functional processes and/or marketing and product analytics is a plus

We back you with benefits that support your holistic well-being so you can be and deliver your best. This means caring for you and your loved ones' physical, financial, and mental health, as well as providing the flexibility you need to thrive personally and professionally:

• Competitive base salaries
• Bonus incentives
• Support for financial-well-being and retirement
• Comprehensive medical, dental, vision, life insurance, and disability benefits (depending on location)
• Flexible working model with hybrid, onsite or virtual arrangements depending on role and business need
• Generous paid parental leave policies (depending on your location)
• Free access to global on-site wellness centers staffed with nurses and doctors (depending on location)
• Free and confidential counseling support through our Healthy Minds program
• Career development and training opportunities

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