Financial Services - Data, Analytics, & Technology - Senior Associate

Senior Associate

At PwC, our people in data and analytics focus on leveraging data to drive insights and make informed business decisions. They utilize advanced analytics techniques to help clients optimize their operations and achieve their strategic goals. In business intelligence at PwC, you will focus on leveraging data and analytics to provide strategic insights and drive informed decision-making for clients. You will develop and implement innovative solutions to optimize business performance and enhance competitive advantage.

Focused on relationships, you are building meaningful client connections, and learning how to manage and inspire others. Navigating increasingly complex situations, you are growing your personal brand, deepening technical expertise and awareness of your strengths. You are expected to anticipate the needs of your teams and clients, and to deliver quality. Embracing increased ambiguity, you are comfortable when the path forward isn't clear, you ask questions, and you use these moments as opportunities to grow.

Examples of the skills, knowledge, and experiences you need to lead and deliver value at this level include but are not limited to:

• Respond effectively to the diverse perspectives, needs, and feelings of others.
• Use a broad range of tools, methodologies and techniques to generate new ideas and solve problems.
• Use critical thinking to break down complex concepts.
• Understand the broader objectives of your project or role and how your work fits into the overall strategy.
• Develop a deeper understanding of the business context and how it is changing.
• Use reflection to develop self awareness, enhance strengths and address development areas.
• Interpret data to inform insights and recommendations.
• Uphold and reinforce professional and technical standards (e.g. refer to specific PwC tax and audit guidance), the Firm's code of conduct, and independence requirements.

Job Requirements and Preferences:

Basic Qualifications:

Minimum Degree Required: Bachelor Degree

Minimum Year(s) of Experience: 3 year(s)

Preferred Qualifications:

Preferred Fields of Study: Financial Mathematics, Mathematical Economics, Mathematical Statistics, Statistics, Applied Mathematics, Mathematics, Engineering, Engineering and Business

Additional Educational Preferences:

Advanced Degree in Mathematics or other quantitative discipline

Preferred Knowledge/Skills:

Demonstrates thorough abilities with, and/or a proven record of success identifying and addressing client needs in the following areas:

• Developing Credit and Capital models within the Financial Services sector, including; the Retail/Commercial banking industry, consulting, or government regulatory positions;
• Knowledge in following areas is preferred: securities and derivatives valuation and risk management, including retail and/or wholesale, market and credit risk models, mortgage prepayment models, and/or complex discounted cash flow models;
• Demonstrating Credit/Capital Modeling and Data Technology skills which can advise and work with clients to build, develop, and migrate Model environment to Cloud based Data science platforms;
• Experience in statistical and machine learning techniques for analyzing large sets of financial data, including sampling, hypothesis testing, optimization; time series, regression, decision tree, and cluster analyses. Displays techniques for visualizing complex financial data analyses;
• Knowledge in statistical modeling utilizing SAS or R software, Excel/VBA, SQL, Python and other programming languages and applications;
• Experience on cloud-based data solutions using technologies like AWS, Azure, Data Bricks, Snowflake, or other AI/ML platforms like Dataiku;
• Understanding of best practices across Data Lakes Data Warehouse and Data Analytics;
• Displays ability to identify and address client needs, which includes building relationships with clients, developing an awareness of Firm services, approaching client in an organized manner, and delivering clear requests for information;
• Provides problem solving skills, communicates effectively in written and verbal formats to various audiences (including various levels of management and external clients) in a professional business environment;
• Displays ability to research and analyze pertinent client, industry, and technical matters;
• Demonstrates ability to contributes to a positive working environment by building relationships with team members; proactively seeking guidance, clarification and feedback;
• Demonstrates ability to identify, escalate and communicate potential issues and conflicts;
• Utilizes flexibility in handling multiple tasks by prioritizing and focusing on successful execution.

Travel Requirements: Up to 60%