Sr. SAS Statistical Analyst


Company:: Elan Partners
Location:: Grapevine, TX
Job Type:: Full Time
Category:: Risk Management

Yrs of Exp:: 2+ to 5 years
Posted:: 2/12/2013

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Job Description

DUTIES/RESPONSIBILITIES:
- Collect and structure data according to the analytic project requirements with moderate supervision. Analyze pricing data for various used game consoles to promote more trade-in activity and protect ROI.
- Develop a SAS interface for end-user to carry out "what-if" analyses by running statistical models on background and generating results in a simple and structured format.
- Explore, extract, and evaluate transactional data from multi-threaded data bases, and prepare for feeding into statistical models. Accurately execute the analytical methodology for model development and/or analysis with moderate supervision.
- Develop appropriate statistical models to forecast trade-in volume, and help change pricing structures to boost ROI.
- Utilize database knowledge, programming skills and data manipulation / query tools to produce actionable analytic reports and ad hoc analysis to meet client needs.
- Participate in and facilitate client and project team meetings, utilize effective communication skills to explain analysis results.
- Identify potential enhancements and/or process improvements for modeling and enhance current analytic methodology.

REQUIREMENTS:

- 3+ years in conducting statistical analysis with SAS Programming

- Significant modeling experience in SAS, SPSS, STATA, R, MATLAB, or any other statistical software with strong programming skills.
- Should be able to develop/build models
- Experience with advanced statistical analysis and data mining methodologies
- Experience with time series analysis, regression models, cluster analysis, logistic regression, variance component analysis and non-parametric analysis.
- Proficient knowledge of Windows-based business computers and Microsoft Office programs; specifically, Excel, Outlook, PowerPoint, and Word
- Demonstrated capacity for gathering and scrutinizing data to identify issues, opportunities, patterns, and sustainable business solutions

Preferred:
- Master's degree from an accredited program in statistics, econometrics, mathematics, or other related quantitative field required; PhD preferred.

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