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DEPARTMENTS: Finance and Marketing
SUPERVISOR: Director, Pricing and Profitability

JOB DESCRIPTION / WHO IS THIS FOR:

1. Orange County, CA financial services firm is seeking a Statistician who will play a key role in advancing the company to the next level.
2. This is a sole contributor position that will have extensive exposure to executive management and will be part of the "brain trust".
3. This is for a statistician who relishes strategy and tactics in an environment in which measurement, expectations, inspections and optimizations are the norm.
4. You will find this position challenging and stimulating, including exposure to:
     a. Financial modeling - profit optimization,
     b. Marketing modeling - marketing campaigns, marketing mix, product testing, market testing, segmentation, and advertising ROI optimization,
     c. Predictive modeling - includes analytics surrounding the lead lifecycle ranging from account acquisition through cancellation or funding, and
     d. Demand modeling - identify key drivers, opportunities and challenges to our future growth.

5. Must be first and foremost an excellent analyst.
6. Must have a demonstrated track record of success in an analytical environment and must be driven by results, profitability and business success.
7. Must be able to succinctly articulate and present findings and complex statistical approaches and results to executive management.
8. Must possess excellent interpersonal skills which will facilitate collaboration with talented and experienced professionals in a dynamic, energetic and open atmosphere.
9. Must be an enthusiastic self-starter with the ability to take a variety of projects from inception to completion with limited supervision.

DUTIES
The successful candidate will be responsible for providing management with insightful analytics supporting profit optimization (pricing, marketing and operations) objectives for a nationally respected financial services company. Specific tasks will include:

1. Responsible for providing oversight and inspection of the analytics from separate, but closely related, cutting-edge analytical models.
2. Must be willing and able to challenge and document complex statistical analyses provided by various vendors with respect to both pricing and marketing data analyses.
3. Responsible for conducting analysis and developing statistical models addressing critical pricing and marketing components not addressed in other solutions. Design, develop and deploy systematic improvements across the organization.
4. Responsible for providing analyses to internal customers in the areas of customer acquisition marketing, pricing and price optimization, and operational pipeline performance.
5. Provide insights to management on an ad-hoc and regular basis utilizing, where possible, visual depiction.
6. Mine data from a variety of databases, analyze the output and develop predictive models using linear regression, time series models and survival analysis and other techniques.
7. Perform factor analysis to identify the most significant drivers influencing various aspects of the business.
8. Offer innovative suggestions for improvements backed by solid analytics
9. Develop, maintain, and execute regularly updated reports for ongoing operations support, some of which are Business Objects based.

QUALIFICATIONS:

1. Prefer Ph.D. (M.S. minimum) in one of the following fields - statistics, mathematics, finance, marketing, economics, operations research, or computer science,
2. Must have exceptional, broad-based statistical aptitude
3. Must have ability to fully understand business valuation and strategy.
4. Prefer in-depth knowledge of quantitative syndicated research, products and methodologies.
5. Must have substantial exposure (minimum 3 years preferably) to financial services in applied environments (e.g. banking, mortgage, insurance, credit, etc.).
6. Significant experience programming SAS and developing econometric models.
7. Must have mastery of SAS, SQL, VBA, Excel and Powerpoint.
8. Successful candidate will have a proven background in statistics with significant SAS programming abilities and data mining / SQL retrieval capability.
9. Ability to effectively communicate in writing, prepared presentations, and orally.
10. Must be an out of the box thinker.

Please reply only if:

1. You want to be part of a small, elite corps of analysts who are developing and applying cutting edge architecture and systems,
2. You have the aptitude, and
3. You are willing to commit and persevere to ensure organizational success across a broad range of activities related to your area of expertise.

Competitive Package

Contact:
John Bunnel, jbunnel@ditech.com