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Saturday, December 23, 2006

Project Manager (Business/Industry Research)


Job Responsibilities :

  1. Direct Industry / business analysis. Typical assignments include
    1. Analyzing a whole industry in general and several specific companies in the industry using various analytical frameworks and financial analytics
    2. Preparing economic research reports either for global parameters or with reference to economic development in specific countries
  2. Lead several teams, each consisting of 3-5 analysts/senior analysts, to deliver analytical output in form of power point reports / extensive excel spreadsheets
  3. Interface with Clients to close on deliveries and participate in client meetings where required.
  4. Assist in the design and final presentation of all projects
  5. Actively contribute to the development of thought capital and/or intellectual property of the company.

Direct the development of research protocols, Standard Operating Procedures (SOPs) and analytical frameworks

  1. Monitor and analyze efficiency as well as utilization parameters of the Business / Industry Research group and implement initiatives to improve on these parameters
Prerequisites: Qualifications & Experience
  1. An MBA (Batch of 2000/01/02/) from a premier institute or a Post Graduate in Management with 7 to 9 years of experience
  2. Undergraduate/graduate degree in engineering (preferably from a reputed institute), business management, statistics, economics or similar analytical field
  3. Experience in consulting, corporate planning, business research or analytics for a period of more than 3 years post MBA
  4. Experience in leading a team for quantitative and qualitative business research
Prerequisites: Skills
  1. Excellent people management skills and ability to work in a time-line driven environment
  2. Exceptional analytical skills and capability to work in project environment marked with insufficient data and derive meaningful conclusions from apparently ambiguous information
  3. Familiarity with strategic analysis frameworks and financial analysis techniques to be deployed for analysis of various industries as a whole and companies in particular
  4. Excellent oral and written communication skills
  5. Excellent working skills with Microsoft Office tools, especially power point and excel
  6. Demonstrated ability to work effectively in a team environment

Preferred industry background of potential candidate:

  1. Analytics- ( Peer Group companies)
  2. Strategic/ management consulting ( Senior Consultants)
  3. Corporate strategic function of large corporates

Reporting structure:

  1. Job Reports To : Vice President – India Operations
  2. Reporting Teams : Currently two teams consisting around 8-10 team members (senior analysts and analysts). Number of teams and size of teams is likely to increase shortly

Location: Mumbai

Contact Details:

Achyut Menon 98490 40820

RSVP menon@optionsindia.com

PS- the company is presently about 60 members in Mumbai-and plan to be hiring aggressively –to reach 150 by June.

Positions also exist for junior team members –in business research as well as financial research for MBAs with 1 to 3 yrs exp.

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Tuesday, December 19, 2006

Statistical Analysts - Mumbai


Job Title:

Sr. Statistical Analyst

Company Overview:

BrainMatics specializes in providing Enterprise-wide Risk Management Solutions, Pricing Solutions for Derivatives, Performance Analysis and Portfolio Optimization Solutions. BrainMatics also provides Risk, CRM and Marketing analytics solutions for the retail customer portfolio.

Job Overview:

Working as a part of our analytics team in India for our clients worldwide, the candidate would be responsible for Data Handling, perform statistical analysis and build models on complex datasets using SAS / SPSS. The position would require working onsite / offsite across varied short term / long term analytics driven projects

Roles and Responsibilities:

  • End-to-end modeling
  • Handle modeling assignments individually; i.e. Requirement gathering to solution development phase
  • Engage with client as a technical / Business Consultant
  • Perform Data Preparation, Trends generation and Statistical Modeling
  • Identify the achievement of milestones to the project team
  • Act as a single point of contact for Modeling Assignments to the client and internal team
  • Provide analysis and insight to the clients on a regular basis

Skills Required:

  • Self motivated
  • Statistical & Econometric Modeling
    • Univariate & Multivariate Analysis
    • Regression Techniques
    • Clustering Techniques
    • Time Series Analysis
    • CHAID & Cart
    • Exposure to sampling techniques
  • Exposure to other techniques like Neural Networks, Bayesian Belief Network & other Machine learning techniques will be an added advantage
  • Ability to Pleasant Personality & Ability to engage well with clients
  • Strong communication skills (written and spoken English)
  • People Management Skills

Work Experience:

  • 2+ years of experience in Statistical Modeling (Advanced) using SAS/SPSS
  • Experience in Financial Services, Telecom, or Retail vertical preferred

Educational Background:

  • B.E./ B Tech., Masters in Statistics/Economics/Mathematics or Equivalent

Job Status: Permanent

Apply to: joinus@brainmatics.net

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SAS Programmer Opportunities - Mumbai


Job Title:

SAS PROGRAMMER


Company Overview:

BrainMatics specializes in providing Enterprise-wide Risk Management Solutions, Pricing Solutions for Derivatives, Performance Analysis and Portfolio Optimization Solutions. BrainMatics also provides Risk, CRM and Marketing analytics solutions for the retail customer portfolio.

Job Overview:

Working as a part of our analytics team in India for our clients worldwide, the successful candidate would be responsible for data handling, processing, manipulation and perform analysis on large-scale and complex datasets using SAS/ SPSS. The position would require working onsite / offsite across varied short term / long term analytics driven projects.

Roles and Responsibilities:
  • Import, cleanse, consolidate and store data from various database environments
  • Manipulate large data sets in SAS / SPSS
  • Work with the programming team to develop and implement reusable programs, macros, and processes.
  • Ability to use basic statistical techniques to perform analysis and develop hypothesis
  • Provide statistical programming and validation support
  • Develop SOP’s and related technical documents
  • Ensure timely progress of analysis datasets, tables, listings, presentations and graphs
  • Interact with clients to formalize data sources, understand data
  • Conduct analysis and develop recommendations

Skills Required:

  • Must have ability to manage & meet deadlines.
  • Proficiency with SAS/BASE, SAS/STAT, SAS/MACRO, SAS/Access, MS Excel
  • Attention to detail, quality and accuracy is essential
  • Advanced knowledge of statistics, high-level math or related areas is a plus.
  • Ability to work independently, perform well within the programming team, and within cross-functional teams
  • Attitude to work in a start-up organization environment; innovative
  • Strong communication skills

Work Experience:

  • 1 - 4 years of experience in of advanced SAS programming experience
  • Experience in Financial Services, Telecom, or Retail vertical preferred

Educational Background:

  • B.E./ B Tech. (or) Masters in Statistics/Economics/Mathematics or Equivalent

Job Status: Permanent

Apply to: joinus@brainmatics.net

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Data Analyst Openings - Mumbai


Job Title:

Data Management Analyst

Company Overview:

BrainMatics specializes in providing Enterprise-wide Risk Management Solutions, Pricing Solutions for Derivatives, Performance Analysis and Portfolio Optimization Solutions. BrainMatics also provides Risk, CRM and Marketing analytics solutions for the retail customer portfolio.

Job Overview:

Working as a part of our analytics team in India for our clients worldwide, the candidate would be responsible for the construction and manipulation of large-scale and complex datasets using SAS/ SPSS/ SQL and the production of aggregate data sets and reports driven by project specific needs and reporting requirements. The position would require working onsite / off site across varied short term / long term analytics driven projects.

Roles and Responsibilities:
  • Manage large data sets in statistical packages
  • Perform data review and query generation
  • Define edit checks to be programmed for the study/project
  • Track study progress and issue periodic status reports
  • Identify the achievement of milestones to the project team
  • May also serve as primary client contact for data management issues
  • Create the Data Management Plan for the study/project and assist in the review of the database design

Skills Required:

  • Ability to manipulate large data sets in SAS/ SPSS/ SQL
  • Attitude to work in a start-up organization environment; innovative
  • Pleasant Personality & Ability to engage well with International clients
  • Strong communication skills (written and spoken English)


Work Experience:

2+ years of experience in Data Management

Experience in Financial Services, Telecom, or Retail vertical preferred


Educational Background:

  • B.E./ B Tech. (or) Masters in Statistics/Economics/Mathematics or Equivalent

Job Status: Permanent


Apply to: joinus@brainmatics.net

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Sunday, November 12, 2006

Analytics Careers Blog!!



This Blog is dedicated to showcase Analytics Careers in India. This blog is specially created for recruiters to post positions they are recruiting in the following areas:-

  • Statistics/Econometrics
  • Operations Research & Quantitative Analysis
  • Business Analysis, Consulting & Planning
  • Database Marketing
  • Market Research/Marketing Science
  • Finance & Banking, Services & Support
  • Consumer Credit/Credit Cards
  • Corporate Credit & Commercial Lending
  • Quantitative Finance/Financial Engineering
  • Risk Management
  • Equities
  • Fixed Income Securities
  • Derivatives/Futures/FX & Structured Transactions
  • Corporate/Structured Finance & Securitization
  • Portfolio Management
Recruiters who would like to be Authors are requested to send an e-mail for an invite. Hiring Manager's can send their requests to my mail ID for publishing the same. Recruiters are requested to ensure that they post only Jobs related to the Analytics Industry.

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