Senior Data Analyst at Banco PopularPuerto Rico, United States — contract

Full Time Job Opportunity

Location

Hybrid / Señorial Center / San Juan, P.R.

General Description

The Senior Data Analyst facilitates gathering business/functional requirements and supports fraud systems implementation, operational processes, and applications to drive business decisions. They support strategic initiatives, standardize process documentation, and identify solutions to improve efficiency and productivity. Tasks include assessing threats and vulnerabilities, developing mitigation measures, managing incident processes, conducting investigations, and creating remediation plans. The role also involves analytics and reporting for operational areas, with potential supervisory duties. The analyst develops and implements complex statistical, financial, and accounting models for predicting and monitoring fraud risk.

Essential Duties and Responsibilities

Conduct rigorous data analyses, employing statistical methods and mathematical models to derive insights from complex data sets.

Assist in the validation and testing of quantitative models to ensure the accuracy and reliability of the results.

Apply statistical theory and methods to collect, organize, interpret, and summarize numerical and text data to provide usable information. Interpret quantitative data and design statistical or machine learning models for researching problems or questions.

Analyze data using statistical analysis software programs such as Python, R, SAS, Stata or SPSS.

Analyze and interpret data to identify trends or patterns that may indicate financial distress and emerging credit risk in clients using quantitative techniques such as detection models, prediction models, text matching, clustering, among others.

Conducts special studies to analyze complex financial actions and prepares recommendations for policy, procedure, control, or action. Analyzes financial information to determine present and future financial performance. Identifies trends and recommends improvements accordingly.

Evaluates complex profit plans, operating records, and financial statements. Directs preparation of studies, reports, and analyses in areas such as forecasts, financial plans, regulatory requirements, statistical reports,

Makes recommendations to management regarding cost saving or profit generating opportunities and profitability improvement strategies. Coordinates with all levels of management to gather, analyze, summarize, and prepare recommendations regarding financial plans, acquisition activity, new business planning, trended future requirements, go