Assistant Vice President - Business Analytics

Citi; Bengaluru; On-site; INR 1,200,000 - 1,500,000; Full time

Job summary

Citi is looking for an AVP in Retail Bank Fraud Analytics to analyze transaction data and develop strategies to minimize fraud losses. The role requires 8+ years of analytics experience, preferably in fraud analytics, and strong communication and project management skills.

The ideal candidate will leverage SAS, SQL, and various analytical tools to generate insights and assist in stakeholder management. A Bachelor's degree is required, and a Master's degree is preferred.

Qualifications

• 8+ years of analytics experience, prior experience in fraud analytics preferred.
• Effective communication and project management skills.
• Strong analytical and business strategy skills.

Responsibilities

• Analyze transaction data and develop fraud loss mitigation strategies.
• Collaborate with the strategy implementation team and monitor performance.
• Present insights clearly to stakeholders and senior management.

Skills

Fraud Analytics

Data Analysis

SAS

SQL

Excel

Python

Presentation Skills

Education

Bachelor's degree or equivalent

Master's degree preferred

Tools

Tableau

Hive

Impala

Job description

Job Description

Citi Analytics & Information Management (AIM) team is a global community that objectively connects and analyzes information to create actionable intelligence for our business leaders. It identifies fact‑based opportunities for revenue growth and expense reduction in partnership with the businesses. The role of C12 (Individual Contributor) AVP is within Retail Bank Fraud Analytics team in Citi AIM. The primary area of focus for this position is to analyze transaction data, understand fraud patterns, develop fraud loss mitigation strategies with the objective of minimizing fraud losses and customer impact. The person will also be responsible for monitoring strategy performance, collaborating with the strategy implementation team, and proactively developing fraud loss mitigation measures leveraging new data sources and advanced analytics techniques where applicable.

Job Description Summary

• The individual is expected to be hands‑on with analysis on regular and/or ad‑hoc basis, extract different data sources not only limited to transactions depending on business objective, generate fraud risk insights, recommend business solutions as well as regular monitoring of strategy performance, and optimize existing rules to improve rule performance.
• Individual should be able to have a holistic view of different retail banking products, best practices and integrate analytical thinking and knowledge of business along with data analysis tools and methodologies to develop client centric solutions and recommendations.
• Analytics experience preferably in BFSI domain with proficiency in basic statistics, hypothesis testing, segmentation and predictive modeling. Comfortable in decision tree (CHAID/CART), logistic regression, exploratory data analysis. Strong in SAS, SQL, Hive, Impala and Excel. Knowledge in Python is desirable. Prior experience in fraud analytics is preferable. Knowledge in Tableau or any other data visualization tool is preferable.
• Experience in stakeholder management across various functions and regions. Translate data into consumer or customer behavioral insights to drive targeting and segmentation strategies and communicate clearly and effectively to business partners and senior leaders. Developed communication and diplomacy skills are required in order to exchange potentially complex/sensitive information.
• Presentation skills: delivering clean and clear presentations to share the thoughts, the solutions or the problem for business stakeholders and senior management.
• Project management – Should have skillset to manage project in terms of creating project plan, assigning responsibilities among junior team members, and completion of projects in timely fashion and escalating managing and reporting control issues with transparency. Own and deliver multiple and complex analytic projects. This would require an understanding of business context, conversion of business problems into business solutions and/or modeling and implementing such solutions to create economic value.
• The individual is expected to support regulatory/audit activities and/or other risk and control activities whenever needed.

Qualifications

• 8+ years of analytics experience, prior experience in fraud analytics preferable
• Advanced analytical and business strategy skills
• Effective communication skills
• Ability to present to business partners and/or leaders to gain approvals
• Project and process management skills
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills
• Experience with a prior focus in financial services analytics
• Solid organizational skills and ability to manage multiple projects at one time
• Self‑starter who also has a demonstrated ability to work successfully in a team environment and drive

Education

• Bachelor’s/University degree or equivalent experience. Master’s degree is preferable

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