Job responsibilities: 

• Lead the design and implementation of analytics solutions, ensuring alignment with business objectives and integration with business processes.

• Provide thought leadership and client management, offering strategic direction to drive business decisions and enhance customer/employee experience.
• Develop, plan, and execute multiple analytical projects, stakeholder meetings, and facilitating discussions with senior leaders.
• Support a product design discipline to deliver scalable data products informed by analytics.
• Identify, Align, Manage, develop, and retain talent, fostering an environment of open communication and fair performance assessment.
• Identify new project opportunities to grow the business pipeline and evaluate upcoming AI-based tools for strategic adoption.
• Serve as an Analytics Solutions Lead, guiding junior Analytics Solutions analysts/associates to solve business problems that drive qualitative and quantitative business value,  and when necessary, as an individual contributor.
• Leverage Design Thinking practices to develop strategic, end-to-end, scalable solutions; coach others to inject the same practices into their work.
• Guide project teams in synthesizing analytical findings for consumption by internal analytical clients and senior executives.
• Establish and manage relationships with internal clients and partners.
• Identify new project opportunities helping to grow our business pipeline for respective books of work.
• Recruit, develop and retain talent by creating an environment of open communication that prioritizes continued learning and growth.
• Lead internal FAST initiatives to set the strategic direction of FAST, enable the team to operate at scale in a global operating model, and strengthen the team culture, locally and globally.
• Maintain a rigorous controls environment to ensure accurate and timely results.
• Set standards of excellence for the team by demonstrating professional expertise, strong work ethic, integrity and professional behavior.

Required qualifications, capabilities, and skills:

• Excellent communication, with an ability to convey the strategic vision in a digestible manner for varying technical and senior audiences
• Experience with design thinking practices and tools (e.g., Lucid, Figma, customer journey mapping) and product management principles (e.g., Agile)
• 4+ years of industry experience in consulting, banking analytics, or other relevant business analytics roles (e.g., marketing analytics, sales analytics, business insights)
• Consulting orientation with ability to influence and effectively lead cross-functional teams
• Experience leading project teams and coaching/mentoring early career talent, and improving team culture of a new or existing team
• Self-starter with out-of-the box problem solving skills and a drive to bring new ideas to life
• Strong time management skills, with ability to multi-task and keep multiple projects on track
• Experience with data analytics and/or visualization techniques (e.g. SQL, Python, Tableau, Alteryx)
• Experience and knowledge of data science and analytical methodologies and approaches, and familiarity with various artificial intelligence functionalities
• Experience managing a team and developing talent.
• Strong time management skills and experience with project management tools.

Preferred qualifications, capabilities, and skills:

• Deep understanding of the financial services or retail banking industry.

• MBA or other Master's degree

• Experience with data wrangling, data analytics techniques, and/or visualization techniques (e.g. SQL, Python, Tableau)