Analytical Business Advisor – Analytics Sales Consultant, Fintech

Job Description:

  • Develop strong relationships with clients, evaluate strategies, and recommend profitability driving solutions
  • Enhance the client relationship, drive new programs/revenues, and position Equifax as a strategic advisor at assigned accounts
  • Proactively identify and design quantitative analyses to generate new sales opportunities and support ongoing sales initiatives
  • Maintain a thorough understanding of the prevailing economic environment and its key drivers
  • Collaborate with both the sales team and the rest of the Equifax organization to optimize the use of data and analytical assets
  • Act as a project leader for the development and delivery of analytical solutions such as quantitative analysis, model deployment and custom analytics
  • Cultivate key relationships and provide customer feedback to the account team

Requirements:

  • Bachelor's degree in a quantitative field of study or related discipline
  • 7+ years of relevant experience in some or all of the following areas relating to data analysis: Credit risk and/or marketing analytics, as well as general credit file or credit account analytics
  • Credit risk strategy development
  • Systems analysis
  • Statistical R&D
  • Credit Union, banking, or other consumer lending
  • 7+ years of experience with credit risk scoring, credit data, data attribution, and credit lifecycle management
  • 7+ years of experience presenting analysis findings to internal stakeholders or clients
  • 7+ years of experience synthesizing in-depth analyses that leverage data directly supplied from a Credit Bureau or other third party data provider into appropriately positioned and impactful customer facing presentations

Benefits:

  • comprehensive compensation and healthcare packages
  • 401k matching
  • paid time off
  • organizational growth potential through our online learning platform with guided career tracks
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