Analytics Consultant

**Job Details**

**About the company**

illion is the leading independent provider of trusted data and analytics products and services in Australia and New Zealand. illion is headquartered in Melbourne with offices in all major metropolitan cities across Australia and New Zealand. Our team work with leading brands in our region to bring data & analytics to life.

**About the role**

We're looking for passionate data and analytics people to join our growing team, and you would be:

- An insightful thinker who can problem solve and is a go-to-person when issues arrive.
- A team player who supports the wider group.

As an Analytics Consultant, you will be developing analytical insights into internal and external customer datasets to drive growth and prove value throughout the credit life-cycle. This will involve performing management, interpretation and analysis of data, business processes and products using database, statistical and numerical techniques, and presenting results in a clear and informative manner.

**Functional tasks and responsibilities**:

- Main responsibility of this role involves working on client projects to product analytical-based and data-driven propositions that show the value of illion's data products & services.
- Types of client projects vary from creating pre-sales presentation decks, analytical POCs, building credit scorecards, and forming credit strategy solutions. A typical end-to-end project would involve:

- Initial scope and requirements building, and understanding the customer problem statement
- Data discovery, cleansing, wrangling and investigation
- Merging and combining multiple, disparate data sets
- Developing analytical insights with a key focus on driving value
- Developing high quality presentations for both internal and external stakeholders
- Presenting findings in a clear and informative manner based on content and audience
- Solve client's business problems using a wide variety of data science techniques. Analyses will be simplistic for some use cases and very advanced for others.
- Use data to derive insights and trends to provide commentary on the wider credit market.
- Work collaboratively with members of other teams such as Sales, IT, Legal, Data, and Product functions
- Use of data in compliance with contractual terms and conditions and / or the law, in particular compliance to the National Privacy Principles and the Credit Bureau Code of Conduct.

**Skills & Experience**

**Essential Skills**
- Strong knowledge and experience with relational databases such as MS SQL Server
- Highly proficient coding capability in SAS EG and/or SQL
- Exceptional abstract reasoning and attention to detail
- Strong verbal and written business communication skills including the ability to communicate complex ideas simply
- Ability to work independently, manage timelines, proactively provide updates to management on progress, handle multiple tasks simultaneously, and be flexible in an environment where priorities may change at short notice.
- Openness and ability to learn quickly in a complex, data-rich environment
- Advanced Microsoft Office skills (Word, Excel, and PowerPoint) including the creation of high-quality client presentation decks.

**Skills**
- Ability to code in R and Python
- Experience with BI tools such as PowerBi, Tableau, Qlik
- Ability to convert client needs into business requirements and needs, providing analytical solutions which support those needs
- Experience with advanced analytical and modelling techniques, including logistic regression and other ML algorithms
- General understanding of how the credit or insurance sectors operate as well as general understanding of commercial businesses
- Experience with the development and validation of Credit Risk models
- Ideally 2-5 years of work experience in insights and analytics
- Completion of a degree in Data Science, IT, Mathematics, Engineering, Business or similar related industry experience

**Culture**

At illion, we are always seeking innovative and forward-thinking individuals to join us on our journey. Our culture is unique. It's fast, results-driven and dynamic. It's certainly not for everyone. But if you thrive in a high performing environment - illion could be for you

**Benefits**
- Feel good in the workplace - Australia and NZ wide wellness program to foster positive health & wellbeing for all employees.
- I'm worth illion's Program - be rewarded for your hard work and dedication to illion
- Career Development Opportunities - we are committed to filling our role internally

**How to Apply**

To be considered for this position, you must be an Australian/NZ Citizen or have a Permanent Residency visa.

Here at illion, we value diversity and inclusion and believe that we are able to grow and learn better together with a diverse team of employees. By joining illion you'll be part of an inclusive culture that celebrates a diversity of cultures, skill sets, educations and opinions. People from all cu