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The Americas Strategy Group is an internal "strategy consulting" group that assists the leaders of the Americas Practice of Ernst & Young in developing and implementing strategy. Our key client is the Americas Executive Board, which consists of the senior leaders of the Americas firm. This individual will play a key role in assisting the organization to make better fact-based decisions using analytics. Our projects cover a wide variety of areas, including market analysis (regulatory, competitive, economic, etc.), scenario planning, strategy development and implementation, strategic communications, balanced scorecard development and measurement, and other items of strategic and operational importance to the firm.

Responsibilities:

This position will have access to large volumes of historical data about our clients, our people and our markets, and will be responsible for leveraging this information in creative ways to identify and substantiate new insights about our business. The successful candidate will be able to efficiently integrate and cleanse data from multiple internal and external systems, and then apply modern analytical techniques to the data to prove or disprove hypotheses about our business. Examples of potential projects include mining large volumes of client feedback, building statistical models to predict client behavior, better understanding variances in our internal promotions processes, and building analytical decision frameworks for making investments.

QUALIFICATIONS

To qualify for this career opportunity, candidates must possess the following skills/experience:

• Ability to quickly grasp complex business problems, develop a logical/rational framework for investigating the problem, identify key assumptions and propose and test hypotheses, and develop creative solutions to such problems that leverage quantitative/analytical methods.
• 2-4 years of experience assembling large volumes of financial or transactional data for analytical purposes using SQL. Experience identifying and investigating data anomalies, normalizing/rationalizing data and merging datasets from disparate sources.
• Knowledge of multivariate statistics, such as generalized linear regression models (primarily normal, binary and long-tailed distributed responses) - and expertise in model building and validation techniques including analysis of variance, cross-validation, AIC tests, K-S tests, etc. Experience using statistical modeling software such as S-Plus, R or SAS.
• Strong understanding of probability theory for use in decision making, including conditional probability, decision trees, real options, etc. Experience in sample design and hypothesis testing.
• Advanced proficiency in the use of excel for high level data manipulation and model building, including the use of v(h)lookup, pivot tables, goal seek, solver, etc.
• Ability to quickly create clear and effective visual displays of quantitative information. Ability to explain complex qualitative/analytical approaches to solving business problems, both through written materials and presentations, to business executives who may not have analytical backgrounds.
• Understanding of core financial concepts, such as the time value of money, cash flow projections and the capital asset pricing model.
• Ability to work independently as well as on a team.
• Comfort in a rapidly changing environment with competing and shifting priorities.
• High degree of professionalism and integrity.

Contact:
Send resume to Babette.Meyer@ey.com. No calls or agencies please.