Analyst - MasterCard - Gurgaon

Designation: Analyst

Location: Gurgaon

Experience: 3-7 yrs

Job Description:

Join the data revolution! MasterCard Advisors is helping to shape the future of data insights by leveraging billions of anonymised, aggregated transactions in a 10 petabyte date warehouse to help financial institutions, merchants, media, and governments manage their businesses more effectively. Be part of an Analytics Center of Excellence that is developing consumer insights that are reshaping how businesses make decisions.
Advanced Analytics is charged with servicing Consulting Services, Information Services and Managed Services by centralizing and optimizing the world class analytical, modeling, software coding, data sourcing, product development, product management, econometrics, and associated delivery capabilities of the MasterCard Advisors organization.
Use broad retail, capital markets, media, and/or payments industry experience and deep knowledge of the application of big data quantitative analytics to provide hands-on support for information product development and custom analytical project delivery that satisfies and retains a global client base.
Major Responsibilities:
 Analyze large volumes of transaction and customer data to generate insights and actionable recommendations to drive business growth
 Synthesize analyses into clear, sound recommendations; takes responsibility for structuring and writing reports and client ready presentations from a work stream or project level.
 Build behavioral scorecards for target marketing and risk management solutions using econometric and statistical modeling techniques
 Create highly predictive models using segmentation and regression techniques to drive profits
 Apply knowledge of metrics, measurements, and benchmarking to complex and demanding solutions across multiple industry verticals
 Set the department standard for data driven insights and advanced analytics solutions using tools such as SAS, SQL and MS office suite
 Collect and synthesize feedback from clients, project delivery analysts, and sales teams for new solutions or product enhancements. Provide design specifications, functional and technical requirements for development of new products and solutions.
 Generates key hypotheses and independently structures work at the work stream or project level
 Reviews analytics end-products to ensure accuracy, quality and timeliness.
 Develops effective working relationships with global teams and business partners
 Proactively seeks new knowledge and structures project work to facilitate the capture of Intellectual Capital with minimal oversight

Desired Candidate Profile:

 3 - 7+ years of experience in hands-on business analysis, modeling and segmentation and data mining using large volumes of granular data to deliver analytical solutions
 Advanced degree in Economics/Statistics/Mathematics or B.A. in a technical or quantitative discipline with an emphasis on business applications. M.S./M.B.A. preferred
 Strong SAS, MS-Excel and PowerPoint skills.
 Platforms/Environments: Unix, SAS, SQL, Netezza, VBA, Microsoft BI Stack
 Experience in financial sector and payments industry preferred

Suitable candidates can submit their updated resumes at http://goo.gl/qrsauG