Job Description

The Identity and Fraud Analytics team are looking for an Analytics Consultant to work as part of a fast paced, dynamic, innovative team developing new analytical fraud and financial crime products and working directly with clients delivering bespoke data science and analytical projects. This is a great opportunity to experience a huge range of data science and analytical projects in the ID&F space.

Analytics and predictive models are crucial in the fight against fraud; we recently worked with NewDay to improve their fraud detection solution by developing and deploying a bespoke Machine Learning score. This was able to increase fraud detection at point of application by 25%, with no increase in the number of applications being referred, which resulted in an incremental £9.6m per year of fraud detection.

With your help, as an Analytics Consultant

This role represents an exciting opportunity to be part of the growing ID&F Analytics team and is critical to our success.

Working across the ID&F Analytics team, and under the guidance of the Head of ID&F Analytics, you will be responsible for engaging with clients / product directors to identify problems and define, design and deliver analytical solutions.

We need your help to continue to drive our ID&F business, by supporting our vision, strategy, and analytics roadmap.

The Role

You will be designing and leading multiple analytics projects from concept to implementation, to benefit our clients and their customers whilst managing and motivating your project team to ensure we deliver high quality analytical solutions.

In addition, this role provides the opportunity to manage a small team of junior analysts and hence carries responsibility to drive your own and your team’s performance to achieve our ambitions.

Responsibilities of the role will include:

Analytics Deliveries

Engaging with clients to identify problems and define, design and deliver analytics solutions Designing and leading internal projects to develop new analytics solutions and/or embed cutting edge analytical techniques into existing products to improve performance Mentoring and coaching junior team members in the development of robust analytical solutions, including the development of predictive models and ad hoc data analysis Driving high standards of customer service and proactive client communication throughout all internal and external engagements Working with product managers to define the analytics roadmap for Fraud, Identity and Financial Crime products Participating in pre-sales and sales meetings with clients and prospects to describe and position Experian’s analytics projects and propositions and to adapt it to the specific client’s needs

Qualifications

We do not expect everyone to have fully developed expertise from day one. With the right support and attitude many of these things can be learned and developed further in role so we are looking for people that can demonstrate the principles.

Significant experience In the development of analytical solutions Deep knowledge of analytical techniques with hands-on experience of developing predictive models Experience and proficiency in programming and data preparation Degree or equivalent standard, with a high numeric content e.g. Engineering, Mathematics, Statistics, Economics, Econometrics, Operational Research from top universities. Degree in Data Science is a plus. Ability to work on research and development projects and develop innovative analytical solutions and methodologies Ability to identify business problems that can be solved using a combination of data and analytics and translate this into compelling propositions for our clients A proven communicator, able to effectively communicate solutions and business benefits to stakeholders Excellent interpersonal skills Ability to build and maintain solid, long term relationships Excellent planning, organising, time management & prioritisation skills A creative problem solver

The following skills would be considered a further advantage:

Deep knowledge of analytical techniques with hands-on experience of developing predictive models in the fraud space Experience of developing Machine Learning models Experience and proficiency in Python Previous line management experience

Additional Information

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Our 21k amazing employees in 40+ countries believe the possibilities for you, and the world, are growing. We’re investing in the future, through new technologies, talented people and innovation so we can help create a better tomorrow. To do this we employ the brightest minds that share our purpose and want to make a difference.

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