Jobs
From: Gina Berg
Date: 4 Mar 2004
Subject: Novato, CA (North Bay Area): Statistical Modeling Analyst (3 openings available) at Fireman's Fund Insurance Company
Job Description:
As part of the Claims Analyst Team you will support the analytical needs of
executives, regional managers, technical product managers and process
owners throughout the organization. The ideal candidate will be able to
generate management reports and use statistical methodologies on varied
data sources to identify key metrics, baseline and benchmark current
process and business performance, build and maintain capacity planning
models, perform analysis to deepen business understanding, build
statistical models, forecast from those models, communicate results to
non-technical personnel and recommend actionable changes to the
organization and process enhancements.
Qualifications:
- Four-year degree in statistics, business, economics, mathematics or
other applied quantitative field. Graduate degree preferred
- At least four years experience as a data analyst, insurance,
financial services or operations experience preferred.
- Experience running ad-hoc reports
- Extensive SQL experience.
- Experience using and a thorough knowledge of statistical techniques
with an emphasis on exploratory data analysis, multivariate statistics,
time-series analysis, generalized linear regression, logistic
regression, factor analysis, hypothesis testing, etc.
- A thorough knowledge of Microsoft Excel and/or Minitab
- A knowledge of one or more statistical packages: SAS, S/S+/R, SPSS,
or similar package.
- Ability to visually communicate results of complex analyses to
non-technical audiences.
- Ability to apply quantitative approaches to business questions and
problems.
- Ability to interact with multiple internal customers and prioritize
different work requests.
Preferences:
- Advanced degree.
- Working Knowledge of DB2 and MS SQL Server.
- Excel experience that includes generating Pivot Tables, writing
macros using VBA, querying external data sources.
- Some experience with one or more OO-programming languages such as
Visual Basic, Visual Basic for Applications, Perl, C/C#/C++ or Java.
- Experience automating task through shell scripting or similar
techniques.
- Experience with any major integrated Business Intelligence platform,
e.g. Business Object, MicroStrategies, Cognos, etc.
- Experience with automated model building and data mining.
- Knowledge of data warehousing concepts.
Contact: Gina Berg, Gina_R._Berg@ffic.com
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