Job posting at SAS
Analytic Engineer - Financial Modeler - 09001600
You will support customer analytic business needs through data discovery, analysis, and reporting. Building, maintaining, stress testing, and validating structured financial models will be included within your scope of responsibilities.
You will also review and analyze financial reports and ensure alignment of financial models with financial strategies; translate model performance to the financial benefit of the business by incorporating knowledge of customer business practices; and specify, modify, and update models and approaches based upon emerging ideas and methodologies. Your duties will also involve participating in end-to-end customer analytic needs to include identifying data analysis requirements, processing and exploring client data, translating business requirements into analytic methods, building analytic models, developing analysis reports, and presenting reports to customers.
Qualifications
Essential
* Master's degree in financial mathematics, applied mathematics, statistics, or a related quantitative field
* 4 years experience developing financial models for risk or credit scoring, portfolio optimization, retention, customer LTV analysis, and/or direct marketing of financial products
Additional
* Familiarity with data mining techniques
* Ability to write and edit technical statistical documentation
* Ability to communicate both verbally and in writing with people with various technical backgrounds
* Ability to detect issues in data, creating and testing hypotheses about causes and cures
Preferences
* Ph.D. degree in financial mathematics or a quantitative field
* Experience with the SAS Financial Product set
Additional Information
To qualify, applicants must be legally authorized to work in the United States and should not require now, or in the future, sponsorship for employment visa status.
The level of this position will be determined based on the applicant's education, skills and experience.
Resumes may be considered in the order they are received.
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Job Software R&D
Primary LocationUS-NC-Cary
Organization SAS Institute Inc.
Job Posting Aug 24, 2009
Unposting Date Ongoing
* Classification Full-time
Recruiter Melody Whitford
Hiring Manager Thomas Lehman
Posted at
07:48PM Sep 24, 2009
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