Senior Data Scientist

[Company / Industry] Global Digital Payment / Financial Services

[Position] Senior Data Scientist

[Function] Consulting

[Reporting Line] Country Consulting & Analytics Lead

[Employment Type] Permanent

[Compensation] TBD

[Location] Seoul, Korea

[Consultant in charge] Simon S. Kim

Company Description:

Global leader in digital payments

Position Description:

The position is responsible for developing and advising clients on strategic business directions through data analysis

Job Description:

• As a key member of fast growing team, He/she will lead the efforts to grow client engagements

• Directing and executing multiple medium to large analytic projects along with rest of the stakeholders in analytics & consulting teams

• Develop analytical solutions, engage clients, develop strategies, testing & monitoring frameworks and in totality oversee the deployment of said solutions

• Actively seek out opportunities to innovate by using non-traditional data and new modeling techniques. Experience in deep learning will be a significant advantage

• Collaborating with the internal teams to fully understand business requirements and desired business outcomes

• Defining detailed analytic scope and methodology, and creating analytic plan

• Executing on the analytic plan with appropriate data mining and analytic techniques

• Providing thought leadership in both using data to solve business problems and in arriving at innovative statistical solutions

• Ensuring all project documentation is up to date and maintain the highest levels of quality in deliverables

• Ensuring project delivery within timelines and budget requirements

• Contribute to the development of the team’s analytical skills and business knowledge

• Work as independent contributor mostly and as a team lead if needed by providing guidance to other team members when required

• Enhancing existing analytic techniques by promoting new methodology and best practices in analytics field

• Providing subject matter expertise and quality assurance of complex data driven analytic projects

Job Requirements: 

[Technical]

• Minimum of 5 years of analytical experience in applying statistical solutions to business problems

• Post Graduate degree (Masters or Ph.D.) in Quantitative field such as Statistics, Mathematics, Computer Science, Economics, or equivalent experience preferred

• Hands on experience with one or more data analytics/programming tools such as SAS/Salford SPM/Hadoop/R/SQL/Python/Hive

• Proficiency in some of the following statistical techniques: Neural Networks, Gradient Boosting, Linear & Logistic Regression, Decision Trees, Random Forests, Markov Chains, Support Vector Machines, Clustering, etc

• Familiar with project based client engagement (i.e. data preparation, defining data dictionary, setting up the process and protocol for the sake of secure data transfer etc.)

• Demonstrated experience in planning, organizing, and managing multiple analytic projects with diverse cross-functional stakeholders

• Demonstrated ability to innovate solutions to solve business problems

[Business]

• Results oriented with strong analytical and problem solving skills, with demonstrated intellectual and analytical rigor

• Good business acumen with strong ability to solve business problems through data driven quantitative methodologies. Experience in cards/payments, retail banking, or retail merchant industries is important

• Team oriented, collaborative, diplomatic, and flexible style, with the ability to tailor data driven results to various audience levels

• Detailed oriented, is expected to ensure highest level of quality/rigor in reports & data analysis

• Proven skills in translating analytics output to actionable recommendations, and delivery

• Experience in presenting ideas and analysis to stakeholders

• Exhibit intellectual curiosity and strive to continually learn

• Detailed oriented, is expected to ensure highest level of quality/rigor in reports & data analysis

• Global mindset, desire and demonstrated ability to be a team player and collaborator in a cross-cultural and matrixed organization

• Multi-disciplinary thinking skills: creative, analytic, strategic

• Demonstrated experience in planning, organizing, and managing multiple analytic projects with diverse cross-functional stakeholders

• Must have experience in simultaneously managing multiple projects

If you are interested, please contact simon.kim@rp4rp.com +82-2-6123-0100