Job Description
The Senior Quantitative Analyst position will be responsible for developing quantitative models focusing on portfolio analysis and forecasting for auto lending portfolio management, financial planning, and operational analysis. This role will work with the quantitative analysis and forecasting team to provide analytical support for leadership decision-making.
The Senior Quantitative Analyst position can include an advanced level based on additional work experience and education.
What is a day in the life at Flagship as a Senior Quantitative Analyst?
- Develop forecasting models for auto lending portfolio management, financial planning, and operational
analysis - Develop annual, quarterly, and monthly forecasting models for credit loss, delinquency, and origination. As well as funding and servicing operations
- Maintain, optimize, analyze, and deliver forecasts
- Identify and report issues and needs in forecasting
- Monitor portfolio performance and detect business trends, support portfolio management with data-driven recommendations
- Support loss provision and budget planning
- Create and organize the documentation of model build, validation, test, and performance monitoring
- Serve as the subject matter expert on forecasting and work closely with cross-functional teams
- Work with other teams, such as IT, to define the requirements and procedures of model implementation
- Other duties and projects as requested
About you:
- The senior role requires a Bachelor’s degree in statistics, mathematics, engineering, finance, economics, or any other related quantitative education.
- An advanced senior level requires a minimum education of a master’s degree with preference to a PhD, in statistics, mathematics, engineering, finance or economics or any other related quantitative education.
- The senior role requires a minimum of 4-7 years’ hands-on experience in developing quantitative models and portfolio analysis.
- An advanced senior level requires over 7 years of hands-on experience in developing quantitative models and portfolio analysis.
- Experience in auto or consumer finance industry preferred
- Proficient in quantitative modeling methods, understand the capabilities, assumptions, and limits
- Ability to develop quantitative models under minimum supervision
- Ability to prepare and analyze large complex datasets for model development
- Understandings of corporate financial planning a plus
- Strongly detail oriented
- Strong written and verbal communication skills
- Ability to effectively communicate complex technical concepts
- Ability to effectively collaborate with other team members
- Ability to work in a fast-paced work environment and meet tight deadlines
- Highly proficient in SAS or R
- Highly proficient in SQL
- Highly proficient in MS-Office (Excel, PowerPoint, Word) and making Excel Pivot tables
If you’re interested in partnering with a certified Great Place to Work company that encourages you to be your best, visit www.FlagshipCredit.com/Careers for a complete list of career opportunities and information on our company.
Flagship is an Equal Employment Opportunity Employer: We believe that diversity, equity, and inclusion among our associates is critical to successfully achieving our vision and mission, and we seek to recruit, develop, and retain the most talented people from a diverse candidate pool based on merit, qualifications, and business need.