Business Analyst - Advanced

BCforward is currently seeking highly motivated Business Analyst - Advanced opportunity in Jersey City, NJ.

Our client is one of the oldest financial institutions and offers innovative financial solutions to millions of consumers, small businesses and many of the world's most prominent corporations. Their history spans over 200 years and today are the leaders in investment banking, consumer and small business banking, commercial banking, financial transaction processing and asset management.

Position Title: Business Analyst - Advanced
Location: Jersey City, NJ
Duration: 3 Months Contract to Hire
Pay Rate Range: $64/hr W2 - $68/hr W2
Candidates must be legally authorized to work in the United States without sponsorship.

Job Description:
Transform data into business insights and drive innovation in the Payments Digital product business, enhancing customer experiences and shaping the future of financial services.
As an Analytics Solutions Senior Associate on the Digital & Design Domain Services team, you will be at the forefront of developing data solutions that drive business impact. Your role is pivotal in ensuring data-driven analysis and automated reporting shape group strategy, assess opportunities, and measure progress against key objectives. This role is a mix of data science, consulting (problem solving, thought leadership, client management), and product management across the development and implement lifecycle for product analytics solutions. Overall, this role presents an opportunity to apply analytics and strategy skills to a broad range of challenges, learn about financial services lines of business and products (e.g., payments, banking, and digital), gain exposure to cutting edge technologies (e.g. Python, Snowflake, Streamlit, and Tableau) and methods, and communicate insights to a wide range of stakeholders and leadership audiences.

Job responsibilities
* Conducting quantitative analysis to identify strategic, actionable opportunities for the Payments Digital & Design Product business
* Working with large data sets to conduct analyses that include scoping, gathering, wrangling, and visualization
* Automating analyses into dashboards and analytics products used across Payments Digital & Design product teams and senior-level management reporting to enhance the customer experience at scale
* Supporting the prototyping of machine learning algorithms, communicating analytical results to various audiences, and assessing new data sources and techniques
* Using product design and management discipline working with Data Science and Technology partners to deliver scalable data solutions
* Adhering to standards of excellence of the team by demonstrating professional expertise, strong work ethic, integrity, and professional behavior

Required qualifications, capabilities, and skills
* 3+ years of experience within MIS, Business Intelligence, and/or Analytics roles
* Deep understanding of the financial services or Payments industry
* Experience analyzing large data sets using programming languages such as Python, R, SQL and/or Spark and experience using data science libraries (e.g. Pandas, NumPy, scikit-learn, Matplotlib, and Seaborn)
* Demonstrated knowledge of data warehousing concepts and exposure to one or more Business Intelligence toolsets and database platforms: Tableau, Snowflake, Databricks, Oracle/SQL Server/Teradata, Cognos/BO, SAS/R
* Experience using machine learning techniques and advanced analytics (e.g. regression, classification, clustering, time series, causal inference, and natural language processing)
* Deep understanding of the financial services or Payments industry
* Excellent communication, presentation, problem solving, and teamwork skills
* Undergraduate degree in a quantitative discipline, MBA or other Masters degree preferred


About BCforward:
BCforward began as an IT business solutions and staffing firm. Founded in 1998, BCforward has grown with our customers' needs into a full service personnel solutions organization. Headquartered in Indianapolis, Indiana, BCforward also operates numerous delivery centers across North America and India. We are currently the largest consulting firm and largest MBE certified firm in Indiana. Our uninterrupted growth has allowed BCforward to deliver uniquely configured IT staffing and project solutions for over years of catering to our customers' specific needs. BCforward currently maintains a team of over 5000 global resources. With our additional brand, Stafforward, together we have the capabilities to deliver services for a variety of industries in both public and private sectors which allows us to address your most challenging needs.
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This posting is not an offer of employment. All applicants must be authorized to work in the United States and willing cooperate with a background check and drug screen, to the extent permitted by federal and local laws up to, and including, both criminal and financial reviews. The submission of intentionally false or fraudulent information in response to this job posting shall render the applicant ineligible for the position. BCforward is an equal opportunity employer. Any subsequent offer of employment shall be considered employment at will regardless of the anticipated assignment duration.

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