Valley Bank · 7 hours ago
Head of Consumer & SMB Data Analytics
Morristown, NJ
Full-time
Onsite
Director/Executive
7+ years expValley Bank is focused on enhancing its Retail and Consumer segment through data analytics. The Head of Consumer & SMB Data Analytics will enable strategic objectives by analyzing data, developing predictive models, and leading a team of business analysts to drive a data-driven culture within the organization.
Banking
Responsibilities
Enable strategic objectives for the Retail and Consumer segment, with new internal and external data sources, tracking key metrics and development of hypotheses
Translate analysis findings and technical topics, visualize data to explain results to a business audience and to senior management
Conduct thorough data analysis to identify trends, patterns, and insights that inform business strategies
Lead the development of predictive models and machine learning algorithms to forecast business outcomes and customer behavior
Partner with Retail team to increase effectiveness and efficiency through a holistic view of consumer relationships, performance scorecards for sales/service effectiveness and geo-spatial insights for branch strategy
Stay current with industry trends and explore the use of AI, new analytics tools, and methodologies
Drive a strong data-driven culture within the company by mentoring data analysts, increasing data capabilities in other internal functions and building data literacy across business teams
Build and lead a team of high-performing business analysts; develop talent to increase data capabilities and financial acumen across the bank
Qualification
Required
Hands-on experience in translating business objectives into data needs and building metrics to inform strategy
Strong communication, organizational and interpersonal skills, as well as the ability to prioritize and execute on multiple objectives
Proven ability to influence and partner at the senior leadership level
Prior experience working with client-facing teams such as Retail, consumer lending, and variety of internal functions such as finance, digital, marketing preferably in financial services and/or highly regulated industry
Hands-on experience in data modelling, data engineering and data analysis tools such as BI tools, Power BI, SQL, Python
Strong understanding of machine learning principles and statistical analysis techniques
Demonstrated ability to build and motivate high performing teams towards high levels of excellence and standards
Superior presentation and storytelling skills, customer focus and ability to work in diverse, cross functional team environment
Collaborative approach and ability to partner effectively with business, data, and technology teams
Bachelor's degree in a quantitative discipline, such as Data Science, Mathematics, Business Analytics, Econometrics, Engineering, Sciences
Minumum of 7 years working in a data/analytics or business analysis role with hands-on experience in wrangling large data sets, conducting data analysis and developing insights from data
Experience building and/or managing a team
Hands on experience using machine learning or advanced statistical techniques to solve complex business problems
Demonstrated record of influencing others through consensus building in a cross functional environment
Preferred
Master's degree in a quantitative discipline
Financial Services experience and knowledge of Retail / Commercial Banking industry, products, and data highly desired
Company
Valley Bank
Valley National Bank is a regional financial institution
1001-5000 employees
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Late StageLeadership Team
Curt Lang
Chief Banking Officer, New Jersey
Sanjay Sidhwani
Chief Data & Analytics Officer
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