Data Analytics Associate

Summary

Join First Help Financial, a fast-growing company offering auto loans, as a Data Analytics Associate! This remote position, reporting to the Data Analytics Lead, offers a competitive salary plus bonus. You will design analytical infrastructure, derive insights from portfolio data, develop pricing models, and conduct analyses to improve portfolio performance and collection strategies. The role requires a Bachelor's degree, 2+ years of data science experience, and advanced Excel/PowerPoint skills. First Help Financial provides excellent benefits, including competitive health and welfare benefits, paid vacation, 401(k) match, tuition reimbursement, and opportunities for career growth.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in Finance, Statistics, Mathematics, Engineering or similar is required
• 2+ years experience as a Data Scientist/Statistical Modeling
• Advanced expertise in Microsoft Excel and Microsoft PowerPoint
• Strong written communication skills, with an ability to create clear and concise communication
• Strong oral communication skills, with experience in presenting to mid-senior management
• Basic exposure to translating a business problem into a structured analysis. Experience in analyzing large and complex data sets
• Experience in business analytics and data-based decision making
• Experience with a data scripting language (Python, SAS, R)
• Experience with SQL or relational databases (Candidate will be trained on harnessing big data using SQL queries for analytics)
• Experience with VBA for Excel
• Experience with machine learning principals such as AB testing, association analysis, clustering, decision trees, neural networks, principal component analysis, regression, etc

Responsibilities

• Design and develop analytical infrastructure to monitor portfolio performance including KPI dashboards, reports and other tools
• Derive analytical insights from portfolio data and evaluate risk profile trends
• Develop pricing models to evaluate and price bulk portfolios for purchase
• Conduct analysis on impact on portfolio due to changes in the macroeconomic factors and make business recommendations
• Develop metrics to monitor and improve collector effectiveness along several key Servicing dimensions
• Formulate actionable tasks to lower delinquency rates, losses and roll-rates
• Ideate and innovate superior collection strategies to increase the effectiveness and efficiency of collector activities
• Champion operational process improvements to leverage technology & analytical tools as appropriate. Standardize & automate reports generation
• Partner with Servicing Operations team to leverage analytics to develop superior operational processes
• Partner with Technology team for evaluation and roll out of cutting-edge innovation in financial technology
• Coordinate with Risk team to refine existing underwriting models and build newer risk models
• Support C-level executives with ad hoc analyses to address specific business problems. Provide operational support to Servicing team as required

Benefits

• Generous salaries
• Competitive health and welfare benefits
• Paid vacation
• 401(k) match
• Tuition reimbursement
• Quarterly social outings
• Monthly lunches
• A robust employee recognition, and training development program to enhance your career with us