Work at Purchasing Power
Purchasing Power is looking to hire a Data Analyst to join our exciting and fast-paced, Account Recovery team.
Why Purchasing Power?
We are the leading specialty e-retailer offering consumer products, vacations, and online education services through an easy and convenient payment plan. Our customers love us because we make paying for their purchases stress- and hassle-free. The automatic payments help them to avoid penalty fees and ballooning interest associated with other payment options. While the fixed payment duration options empower them to budget more efficiently. Ours is a revolutionary e-commerce experience that gives customers access to a better life combined with a responsible way to buy.
The Data Analyst will be responsible for providing analytics, data sourcing and creating code in support of the Account Recovery department.
Responsibilities Include:
- Data mining/code management using state-of-the-art methods and assisting with prescriptive analysis related to collections and loss rate performance
- Enhancing data collection procedures to include information that is relevant for building analytic output
- Doing ad-hoc analysis and presenting results in a clear concise manner
- Assist with creating and maintaining meaningful and actionable reports/dashboards for business
- Interpret, evaluate and interrelate company and research data and develop integrated business analyses and projections for incorporation into strategic decision making
- Monitor daily/weekly/monthly metrics and alert business leaders to issues and trends
- Analyze business activities and present results and recommendations to enhance operational strategies both for awareness, effectiveness and overall financial benefit.
- Understand underlying business challenges across the organization and communicate accurate data insights that enable confident, effective decision making
- Assist with developing predictive models of customer value, behavior, and responsiveness based on various business activities related to supply chain metrics
- Recognize and communicate financial implications of business decisions and strategy
- Maintain relationship with IT and Finance teams to assure data accuracy and integrity
- Ensure all deliverables adhere to department quality and delivery standards
- Maintain and stay up to date on the latest analytical tools and trend
Basic Qualifications:
- Bachelor’s in Business Analytics, Economics, Decision Sciences, Mathematics, Finance or related field
- 3-5 years of business analysis experience
- 2 years extensive experience with SAS and other statistical software packages
- Advanced Analytic Techniques: Knowledge of advanced quantitative analytic techniques and protocols used to build necessary business models
- Advanced knowledge with data analytics and data mining
- Experience working with cross-functional teams to build consensus and project plans
- Knowledge of financial reporting and data mining tools such as SQL, SAS, R, Python, Access, etc
- Excellent communication and ability to communicate complex concepts/analytics in simple, actionable terms
- Experience with data visualization tools, and the ability to visualize data in an executive consumption format. Experience with Tableau is a plus.
- Demonstrated applied statistics skills, such as distributions, statistical testing, regression, etc.
Preferred Qualifications:
- Financial services and/or E-commerce experience
- Experience with cash management/forecasting
- Experience with high-volume consumer lending platforms
- Experience with Oracle Financials
- Experience with Voluntary Benefits Administration
Purchasing Power is a fantastic place to work because: We were founded on the belief that we could empower people and provide the means for them to obtain the small (and sometimes big!) things that improve the quality of their lives.
We are ‘Powering People to a Better Life™’ through our employee purchase program, financial literacy efforts and charitable contributions.
For more information, visit www.PurchasingPower.com
- Our people! We are very proud of our people, we “Power People to a better life”
- Hybrid work model (Onsite/Offsite)
- Comprehensive benefits: medical, dental, vision, company paid Basic Life/AD&D
- 401k Retirement Plan
- Flexible PTO
- Summer Hours
- Employee Purchase Program
Purchasing Power is an equal opportunity employer. At Purchasing Power, we make all employment decisions, which include hiring, promoting, transferring, demoting, evaluating, compensating and separating, without regard to sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, race, color, religion, age, national origin, pregnancy, citizenship, disability, service in the uniform services, or any other classification protected by federal, state or local law.