Advanced Analytics Consultant - Senior Associate

Time Type: Full time

Job Description

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Industry/Sector

Specialism

Management Level

Senior Associate

Job Description & Summary

About the Team
PwC South East Asia Consulting is a leading digital consultancy. We help businesses, not-for-profits and governments create value and improve the way they work. From improving healthcare, to creating smarter cities and igniting South East Asia’s start up industry, you’ll build trust in society and solve important problems. We’re here because we love what we do and think we can be the best at it. Our culture is magnetic, our workplace is state-of-the-art, and beautifully purpose-built, and we have the skills and personalities fuelling us to be bold, experimental, creative, and truly disruptive.

PwC is a world leader in the use of analytics to help businesses make better decisions and improve their performance through descriptive, predictive and prescriptive analytics. In our Advanced Analytics team we are experts in using data and applying advanced machine learning or AI algorithms to solve complex business problems. We augment human intelligence with machine intelligence to help our clients make better decisions, while also transforming into more data driven organisations.

Types of problems you may solve as part of a team:
What are the growth opportunities in my market and who do I target?
How do I improve the efficiency of my assets to reduce costs or improve margin?
How should I price my product or what discount should I offer to attract customers?
How do I build an effective, productive analytics team to support my business?
How should I optimize my logistics network or supply chain to best serve my customers?

About the Role

• Use of relational or graph databases and manipulating large, complex datasets

• Building complex spreadsheets for financial or operational modelling, including the use of VBA

• Use of statistical modelling packages such as R, including use of predictive or machine learning algorithms

• Use of simulation or optimisation software packages and underlying theory

• Familiarity and hands-on experience with SQL, Python, Java, and/or C/C++

• Designing impactful data visualisations to communicate complex ideas in Tableau or similar

Preferred skills

• Degree in a quantitative discipline, such as Mathematics/Statistics, Actuarial Sciences, Computer Science, Engineering, or Life Sciences 
• Demonstrated foundation in and application of statistical concepts, hypothesis testing, and/or probability 
• Demonstrated ability to quickly pick up new tools and techniques including programming languages
• Demonstrated ability to think abstractly, solve problems and deal with ambiguity
• Experience working with and manipulating messy and complex data sets to find insight
• Possess a self-starter attitude, good time management and communication skills
• Experience working with senior stakeholders, communicating complex ideas
   

Minimum years experience required

• Minimum 1 – 4 years of work experience working in a data or analytics focused role

Education (if blank, degree and/or field of study not specified)

Degrees/Field of Study required:

Degrees/Field of Study preferred: Bachelor Degree

Certifications (if blank, certifications not specified)

Desired Languages (If blank, desired languages not specified)

Travel Requirements

Not Specified

Available for Work Visa Sponsorship?

No

Government Clearance Required?

No

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