Data Analyst / Sr Data Analyst
Phoenix
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Upgrade is a fintech unicorn backed by a top 10 global bank and other leading fintech investors. Founded in 2017, Upgrade has already delivered $5 billion in consumer credit and achieved $125 million in annual revenue run rate and cash profitability.
Upgrade is building a neobank offering exceptional value to mainstream consumers, including affordable and responsible credit through cards and loans. In 4 short years 12 million people have already applied for an Upgrade Card or loan.
Upgrade has been named a “Best Place to Work in the Bay Area” by the San Francisco Business Times and Silicon Valley Business Journal 3 years in a row, and received “Best Company for Women” and “Best Company for Diversity” awards from Comparably.
We are looking for new team members who get excited about designing and implementing new and better products to join a team of over 500 talented and passionate professionals. Come join us if you like to tackle big problems and make a meaningful difference in people's lives.
Are you a data-savvy professional with analytical genes that thrives on driving data-based decisions through exploring data and extracting insights? Do you have an aptitude for visualizing those insights that improve operational decision making and are you attracted to an entrepreneurial culture and energized by high growth? If so, read on…Upgrade Inc., a fast-growing fintech "unicorn", is looking for a "rockstar" Data Analyst to join our Analytical Insights & Decision Optimization team. This key role will leverage data to increase the organizational value of the Phoenix Service Center through better "influencing" decision making (Analytics), and "optimizing" decision making (Prediction). We have large data sets that need to be analyzed to better understand our business and to identify new opportunities for efficiencies and improvement. You will be critical in exploring and modeling data then visualizing critical insights to improve decision making. You will also work with business teams across the Phoenix Service Center in areas like capacity planning, workload forecasting, workforce analytics, business impact analytics, call center analytics, and customer analytics. To be successful in this role, you must be a self-starter, entrepreneurial by nature, and enjoy a fast-paced challenging environment. Experience in taking data analytics projects from soup to nuts is a must.
Upgrade is building a neobank offering exceptional value to mainstream consumers, including affordable and responsible credit through cards and loans. In 4 short years 12 million people have already applied for an Upgrade Card or loan.
Upgrade has been named a “Best Place to Work in the Bay Area” by the San Francisco Business Times and Silicon Valley Business Journal 3 years in a row, and received “Best Company for Women” and “Best Company for Diversity” awards from Comparably.
We are looking for new team members who get excited about designing and implementing new and better products to join a team of over 500 talented and passionate professionals. Come join us if you like to tackle big problems and make a meaningful difference in people's lives.
Are you a data-savvy professional with analytical genes that thrives on driving data-based decisions through exploring data and extracting insights? Do you have an aptitude for visualizing those insights that improve operational decision making and are you attracted to an entrepreneurial culture and energized by high growth? If so, read on…Upgrade Inc., a fast-growing fintech "unicorn", is looking for a "rockstar" Data Analyst to join our Analytical Insights & Decision Optimization team. This key role will leverage data to increase the organizational value of the Phoenix Service Center through better "influencing" decision making (Analytics), and "optimizing" decision making (Prediction). We have large data sets that need to be analyzed to better understand our business and to identify new opportunities for efficiencies and improvement. You will be critical in exploring and modeling data then visualizing critical insights to improve decision making. You will also work with business teams across the Phoenix Service Center in areas like capacity planning, workload forecasting, workforce analytics, business impact analytics, call center analytics, and customer analytics. To be successful in this role, you must be a self-starter, entrepreneurial by nature, and enjoy a fast-paced challenging environment. Experience in taking data analytics projects from soup to nuts is a must.
Primary Responsibilities
- Hire and develop a team of data analysts, data scientists and data engineers
- Build strong and effective relationships with internal business leaders and SMEs
- Develop knowledge about business processes & systems and become data SME
- Organize and drive successful completion of analytics projects related things like capacity planning, workload forecasting, workforce analytics, business impact analytics, call center analytics and customer analytics
- Oversee in-depth analyses and the creation of statistical models to identify trends and key drivers that inform important decisions across the business
- Oversee development of best practices for examining, interpreting and communicating results of analytical initiatives to stakeholders in operations
- Oversee development of best practices to improve the overall quality of data being ingested to maximize reliability of models / insights
- Manage and optimize processes for data intake, validation, mining and engineering as well as modeling, visualization and communication deliverables.
- Collaborate with the corporate Data Architect and oversee the development of an operational DataMart
- Partner with the Performance Measurement and Reporting team to ensure high quality data feeds and automated extraction practices are being deployed
- Identify opportunities to automate manual processes and improve efficiencies
Skills, Experience & Qualifications
- Comfortable with ambiguity, developing creative solutions, and delivering against aggressive timelines
- Bachelor's degree required (Computer Science or related major (i.e. Computer Science, Information Systems, etc.,) preferred)
- Advanced degree preferred (Masters in Data Analytics, PHD etc.)
- Minimum 6+ years relevant professional experience required
- Minimum 3+ years of relevant work experience within data science-related fields required
- Working knowledge of data mining principles: predictive analytics, mapping, collecting data from multiple data systems on-premises and cloud-based data sources.
- Working knowledge of complex data models, BI methodologies, data architecture principles (MDM, Metadata, API Integration, Database Design etc.)
- Experience using analytical concepts and statistical techniques: hypothesis development, designing tests/experiments, analyzing data, drawing conclusions, and developing actionable recommendations for business units.
- Experience in financial services is preferred
- Able to write SQL, minimum 2+ years of experience in SQL or alternative coding language
- Strong leadership and management capabilities
- Strong analytical and problem-solving skills
- Strong interpersonal communication and active listening skills
- Proficiency with the Microsoft Office Suite, highly proficient in MS Excel & PowerPoint
Tags: APIs Computer Science Data Analytics Data Mining Engineering Excel FinTech PhD SQL
Perks/benefits: Career development Startup environment
Region:
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Country:
United States
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