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Position: Data Analyst
Location: Atlanta/Hybrid work model
Who Are We: Purchasing Power (corp.purchasingpower.com)
We are an Atlanta-based voluntary benefit company offering an industry-leading employee purchase program for brand-name consumer products, online education services and travel offerings through convenient payroll deduction, helping employees achieve financial flexibility.
The Opportunity: The Data Analyst is responsible for providing analytics, data sourcing, creating code in support of the Account Recovery department.
What You Will Do:
- Perform data mining/code management using state-of-the-art methods and assisting with prescriptive analysis related to collections and loss rate performance
- Assist with developing predictive models of customer value, behavior, and responsiveness based on various business activities related to supply chain metrics
- Analyze business activities and present results and recommendations to enhance operational strategies both for awareness, effectiveness and overall financial benefit
- Assist with creating and maintaining meaningful and actionable reports/dashboards for business
- Understand underlying business challenges across the organization and communicate accurate data insights that enable confident, effective decision making
- Monitor daily/weekly/monthly metrics and alert business leaders to issues and trends
- Maintain relationships with the IT and Finance teams to assure data accuracy and integrity
- Recognize and communicate financial implications of business decisions and strategy
The Experience You Will Bring:
- Bachelor’s degree in Business Analytics, Economics, Decision Sciences, Mathematics, Finance or related field
- 1-2 years of data/business analysis and data mining experience
- Minimum of 1 year of extensive experience coding with SAS and SQL
- Knowledge of financial reporting and data mining tools such as R, Python, Access, etc.
- Experience using data visualization tools such as Tableau
- Experience using Microsoft Office (Excel, Word)
- Advanced Analytic Techniques: Knowledge of advanced quantitative analytic techniques and protocols used to build necessary business models
- Experience working with cross-functional teams to build consensus and project plans
- Ability to synthesize large quantities of complex data and/or functions into actionable information
- Demonstrated applied statistics skills, such as distributions, statistical testing, regression, etc.
Preferred Skills:
- Financial services and/or E-commerce experience
- Experience with cash management/forecasting
- Experience with high-volume consumer lending platforms
- Experience with Oracle Financials
- Experience with Voluntary Benefits Administration
Your Well Being:
- Hybrid work model (Onsite/Offsite)
- Comprehensive benefits: medical, dental, vision, company paid Basic Life/AD&D
- 401k Retirement Plan
- Flexible PTO
- Career Development
- Employee Purchase Program
What We Stand For:
- We act with intensity, urgency and a passion for supporting our customers and growing our business. We strive for excellence.
- We hold ourselves accountable and expect it of each other. We attack problems with a positive “can do” attitude. We do what we say we’ll do.
- We deliver as one team, working together with integrity, respect, trust, transparency, and fun. We are better because we work here.
- We believe our unique diversity and authenticity makes us a better company, allows us to be our best selves and is a competitive advantage.
- We exhibit innate curiosity and creativity to innovate and reimagine how things can be done. We ask, is there a better way?
Purchasing Power is an equal opportunity employer. At Purchasing Power, we make all employment decisions, which include hiring, promoting, transferring, demoting, evaluating, compensating and separating, without regard to sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, race, color, religion, age, national origin, pregnancy, citizenship, disability, service in the uniform services, or any other classification protected by federal, state or local law.
