Quantitative Analytics Associate
KeyBank is a national association that focuses on providing financial services. The Quantitative Analytics Associate role involves conducting quantitative analysis and supporting the development of predictive and machine-learning models to address specific business needs.
Responsibilities
- Conduct quantitative analysis on large data sets with manager and team support
- Identify common data errors and their impact
- Employ basic best practices for evaluating large data
- Answer key business questions through exploration and discovery
- Find patterns or anomalies by building out visualizations
- Execute basic diagnostics testing under supervision (e.g. performance testing, assumption verification and impacts of limitations)
- Tests, under supervision, suitability / sufficiency for approach (e.g. representativeness)
Skills
- Bachelor's degree (or its equivalent) in statistics, mathematics, economics, financial engineering, data sciences, predictive modeling, or other quantitative disciplines and at least 1 year of relevant experience; 0 with Master's or PhD
- Understanding of data wrangling including information documentation and importing data from different formats
- Understanding of descriptive statistics, random variables, common distributions, outliers
- Ability to consume, explore, and evaluate big data; can leverage this skill to inform business questions
- Advanced Microsoft Office Suite navigation, shortcuts, use and share spreadsheet documents
- Python/R/SAS: Perform IDE walk-through; shortcuts, connect to data bases, use functions such as classes, variables, lists, and classes, program files, modules, and libraries
- Familiar with concepts and usage of Data Leakage, Training, Testing, and Validation Sets for model building
- Able to perform basic diagnostics testing
- Understanding of foundational statistical / measurement concepts, methods, and techniques
- Understanding of basic uses, scope, features, benefits, and risks of available modeling methods
- Works under general direction / supervision; may work independently, but often needs ongoing guidance and support
- Limited business partner interaction – work typically assigned by manager; Developing relationship building ability and interpersonal skills; Engage and interact mostly with immediate team and peers; Developing influencing skills
- Developing basic understanding of business partner strategy; Building financial acumen
- Developing critical thinking skills; Can analyze simple issues with low complexity; Can give perspective to the team addressing basic business/analytical problems and challenges; Recognizes need to escalate issues in a timely manner
- Basic writing skills; beginning to develop ability to organize information in clear, consistent format; Typically needs assistance with articulating a clear, well-thought out message and formal delivery; Minimal skills in creating PowerPoint presentations; limited formal delivery
Benefits
- Eligibility for incentive compensation which may include production, commission, and/or discretionary incentives
- Please click [here](https://www.key.com/about/careers/working-with-us/benefits.html) for a list of benefits for which this position is eligible.
- Key has implemented an approach to employee workspaces which prioritizes in-office presence, while providing flexible options in circumstances where roles can be performed effectively in a mobile environment.
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