Data Analyst - CHN

Location: Chennai
Experience: 6 - 9 Years

The Purpose of This Role

You will be responsible for conducting consultative analytics and creating executive level recommendations for business partners and line finance. You will also provide a broad range of ad hoc analytical support as needed. The analyses and insights delivered are critical components to drive business planning and ongoing decision making.

The Value You Deliver

• Providing analyses and strategic recommendations to team, management, and business partners
• Synthesizing data, analyses, and conclusions into self-service dashboards or presentations for senior management
• Finding opportunities to streamline work processes to make the team more efficient and effective
• Proactive partnership and communication with business and Finance partners
• Using tools and business knowledge to continuously provide insightful information, reporting and analytics that evolve with changes in the business
• Work with the business to understand investment opportunities and provide cost benefit analyses to support decision making
• Contributing to the finance community with your energy, enthusiasm and team spirit

The Skills that are Key to this role

Technical / Behavioral

• Expertise and significant experience in Data Analytics and modelling, including predictive modelling and time series forecasting is essential. Preferably in workforce optimization area.
• Outstanding analytical and problem-solving skills. Comfortable working through ambiguous asks and ideas from concept to delivery. Working independently to perform most analyses.
• Translate research findings as well as quantitative analyses into accessible visuals for non-technical audiences, providing a clear view into interpreting data, and crisply communicating recommendations
• Willingness and ability to learn new tools and technologies as needed.
• Ability to respond to shifting priorities while maintaining progress of regularly scheduled work.
• Excellent written and verbal communications skills, including the ability to communicate effectively at varying levels of the organization. Ability to communicate complex ideas in simple terms.
• Intellectually curious and willing to ask questions and challenge status quo to benefit the organization
• Strong interpersonal skills. Flexible and adaptable team player.

The Skills that are Good To Have for this role

• Proficiency in Python
• Confidence and ability to influence senior leaders in the organization

How Your Work Impacts the Organization

The team enables informed staffing strategies that position our business partners to meet their goals. We do this by developing fact-based, data-driven insights that inform multi-year business strategies and the day-to-day execution of business plans.  Our methodologies and analytics enable our business leaders to better understand their organizations’ capabilities and establish a credible point-of-view for strategic staff planning, workforce optimization and business performance improvement opportunities.

• Work closely with business partners to support and influence the development and on-going assessment of operational forecasts, staffing strategies, and multi-year business plans
• Identify trends and create insights to improve management’s ability to build effective workforce plans, evaluate performance, and clearly understand team and associate capabilities
• Assess the impact of improvement and new product initiatives on long range staffing plans and contribute to business case development or validation
• Build trust and leverage solid working relationships with a global team, finance partners and all levels of business leadership
• Develop innovative solutions contributing to the evolution of the operating environment, enabling improved performance and results for our business partners.

The Expertise We’re Looking For

• Ideal candidate will have 5+ years in the financial service industry, with experience using data and analytics to consult and inform strategy
• Bachelors or Masters in a quantitative analysis field (Engineering, Mathematics, Statistics, Finance or Business)
• Proficiency in Business Intelligence tools, analyzing large data sets, modeling, and presentation tools (MS Excel, MS PowerPoint) with experience in Tableau, Power BI and SQL. 
• Hands-on analytics experience with working on Time-series and Advanced machine learning techniques in forecasting applications, and strong data skills are critical for this role.
• Experience working with US teams preferred