Statistical Modeling Lead - 379601

Description

Be a part of our success story. Washington Mutual offers talented and motivated people

the opportunity to do the best work of their lives in a dynamic and growing company.

Through competitive salaries, outstanding benefits, internal advancement opportunities,

and nationally recognized community involvement, you'll have the chance to create a

career you can be proud of. Your success story starts here.

Position Summary

The Statistical Modeling Lead will provide direction to Statistical Modeling staff, along

with analytical, sampling, and modeling support to multiple business areas including market

research, consumer lending, investments, deposits and loss management. He/she will be

accountable for:

•Leadership of Statistical Modeling department

•Conducting necessary coaching/mentoring and development of staff

•Designing the analytic framework for solving the problem

•Using programming skills to extract the proper data from a variety of systems

•Manipulating the data using statistical tools to perform strategic analysis and developing high

quality models which solve the business problem

•Presenting findings and making recommendations on how to best use the output.

Key Responsibilities

•Combines advanced statistical techniques, direct business experience and computer

programming skills to analyze business problems, create solutions and make clear

business recommendations.

•Designs, evaluates, and implements statistical models for direct marketing campaigns,

risk management and loss projection.

•Provides sampling support for marketing research and operational excellence surveys.

•Uses a variety of programming languages (e.g., SAS, SPSS, SQL, etc…) as necessary to

manipulate data from different systems.

•Provides in-depth analysis on business problems and applies advanced mathematical and

statistical principles to the complex research and development-related projects.

•Performs other tasks as required.

Qualifications

Strong education and experience in statistical modeling, and ability and desire to lead a team

in addition to conducting modeling as an individual contributor. Experience with financial

services or closely related industry. The successful candidate will be able to bring state of the

art techniques to bear on challenging business problems, and be able to identify and communicate

key drivers to our business partners.

•Ph. D in statistics, math, economics or equivalent quantitative field is required. Master's degree

with significant work experience will be considered.

•3+ years previous work experience managing in analytics and modeling environments

is strongly preferred.

•Proficient in SAS/SPSS and proven experience with SQL for data extraction.

•Work experience with data warehouse and extremely large data sets.

•Excellent verbal and written communication skills.

•Outstanding interpersonal and customer service skills.

Washington Mutual is an Equal Opportunity Employer. Anyone needing accommodation to

complete the interview process should notify the recruiter.

Apply online at www.wamu.com, careers, job #379601.