Position Summary

The Senior Manager, Advanced Analytics and Data Science, will develop end-to-end statistical models required to drive decision-making and quality improvement in the delivery of financial products, working either directly with Financial Service Providers (FSPs) or consulting organizations that support and work with FSPs or new-age fintech companies.

Position Responsibilities

- Data science team management
- Define scope, milestones, KPIs, and deliverables to ensure focused execution for statistical/ML model development.
- In coordination with project managers and appropriate teams, lead the assigned model development projects from proposal through implementation, working closely with other project areas and project teams.
- Set expectations and data requirements for all ML and other statistical model developments with data analyst/engineer teams and work with the project teams to ensure all the data required for model design, development, deployment, and statistical analysis is prepared within defined standards.

- Advanced Analytics Risk

- Develop and control statistical transactional analytic models, integrating applicable Machine learning and relevant AI techniques.
- Manage, develop, and implement statistical models to support credit, collection, account maintenance, recovery processes, customer profiling, and segmentation for product-related marketing and uptake, etc.
- Validate, through statistical tools, the consistency of the information required for constructing the statistical and expert models required.
- Guide to continuously validate the prediction capabilities of the statistical models developed and implemented.
- Coordinate the preparation and documentation of the specific ML developments and follow up on related results.
- Develop and present training material to facilitate the implementation of the risk-based segmentation tools and other models developed.
- Contribute to the development of monitoring and maintenance tools for the risk-based segmentation tools implemented
- Ensure that overall project plan objectives are met and advise Regional leads and project managers on performance through timely reporting.

- Product Development Strategy





- Support business development and project delivery meetings with partners to effectively represent and communicate the value of the Advisory's modeling and analytics service offering and how it can be integrated into solutions for partners.
- Lead solutions efforts with partners and support project managers in refining and finalizing specific project related deliverables from a model development and analytics perspective.
- Lead and coordinate model development requirements for agreed-upon business implementations with platform/FSP partner teams. Ensure timely communications and updates to project managers and appropriate teams on all interactions with partners and support any partner discussions with modeling, data science, and analytics requirements.
- Develop high quality documentation and project collaterals to support all BD and implementations.
- Support documentation and collateral development to disseminate learnings and information from various implementations to support knowledge exchange both internally and for external consumption.

- Position Qualifications

- Minimum of a Bachelors/MSc/MA in Finance, Mathematics, Statistics, or Business. MBA is desirable.
- 10+ years of experience in the development of statistical models, including proven experience in guiding teams of data engineers and data scientists supporting financial institutions/financial service providers in statistical decision modeling.
- Strong experience in model development and statistical analysis
- Experience in MSE-focused technology businesses and/or Fintech; a financial services background is preferred
- Use and advanced understanding of statistical modeling tools (SPSS, SAS, or similar platforms)
- Knowledge of Web programming languages like Python and Java.
- Knowledge of Microsoft SQL Server, MySQL, or PostgreSQL
- Knowledge in DevOps tools like Git, Jenkins, Docker is ideal
- Advanced statistical and financial skills, Credit Risk Modeling/Analysis, Data Mining,



Financial knowledge; background in statistics or programming is preferred.
- Hands-on experience working in the design, building, and implementation of financial solutions/services. Strong experience in score-building and statistical analysis
- Excellent relationship-building skills, orientation to customer service, and an ability to sell ideas and motivate others.
- Ability to create and share project management-related documentation, including comprehensive and appealing presentations to partners.
- Ability to structure and scope complex problems and apply various analytical tools to develop solutions.
- Curious mindset demonstrated initiative to learn the developments in fintech and the financial inclusion domain, with an entrepreneurial spirit.
- Excellent people skills and experience with multi-cultural environments are preferred.
- Willingness to embody Accion's values of excellence, respect, and passion for social change
- Interested in our mission and working globally.
- Willingness to embody our values of excellence, respect and passion for social change.
- Excellence: Accion staff should always put forth their best effort in all activities, strive for high quality of collective and individual performance; and demonstrate honesty and integrity at all times while in the workplace and while working on behalf of the organization.
- Respect: Accion staff should value one another's roles and responsibilities as much as their own, be encouraging, and value the diverse and unique perspectives of colleagues. They should honor obligations and commitments to each other and to external partners.
- Passion for Social Change: Accion staff should be committed to making a difference in the lives of those less fortunate, value the greater positive of the organization over personal gain, and promote a productive workplace by acknowledging the accomplishments of others.

- Travel Requirements

- Travel up to 30% domestically and occasional international trips.

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📌 Senior Manager, Advanced Analytics and Data Science, Accion Advisory (Mumbai)
🏢 Accion International
📍 Mumbai