About Essex Lake Group LLC
With global headquarters in New York, U.S.A. and operations in India, Canada, China and the United Kingdom, Essex Lake Group LLC ("Essex") delivers transformative profit enhancement solutions, anchored on insights from Big Data, Advanced Analytics and its extensive executive and industry experience.
Essex' customized battle-tested solutions deliver a measurable positive impact within 6 to 18 months. Essex solutions have created substantial profit increases for clients in the areas of revenue growth, cost reduction, consumer and enterprise risk management/ regulatory compliance. Every Essex solution is customized for the client and the specific problem or opportunity. Essex has proven success and experience in working with leading Financial Institutions (Banking, Insurance, Private Equity), Telecommunication and Healthcare companies. Essex delivers visibility in complex businesses to help clients make sound business decisions and its experienced industry experts work with clients through full implementation of its solutions to ensure the organization receives all the benefits from its solutions and methodologies. Further information on the company can be found on its website: www.essexlg.com.
JOB DESCRIPTION
Position: Solution Intelligence (SI) Specialist
Location(s): Toronto, Canada
Roles and Responsibilities:
• SI Specialists have excellent analytical abilities and business problem solving skills and can lead analytical workstreams end to end throughout the lifecycle of a client engagement. SI Specialists are key executors - owning a workstream from framing hypotheses, collecting data, performing analysis, mentoring \& guiding analysts and developing solution design/implementation blueprints.
• SI Specialists can structure complex analytical problems and produce high quality analyses with little guidance from SI Managers and Client Initiative Leaders. They are highly proficient in big-data analytical tools such as SQL, SAS, Python or R and are experienced in manipulating granular transactional or customer-level data as well as establishing best practice standards for the wider team to implement. They create the analysis plan, plugging in the pieces between target state deliverables and piece-wise targets and can own the delivery of the analytical pieces, guide analysts on the team as needed. They can synthesize analyses into "so what" recommendations, contribute to and lead client presentations and independently manage stakeholders.
• SI Specialists may support development of complex AI/ ML models and guide UI/ UX designers on translating business needs to solution designs.
Required Qualifications:
• Graduate from Premier Educational Institutes, with excellent academic records.
• 5 years of experience, preferably in analytically intensive roles within financial services or professional services.
• Proficient in Excel/ PowerPoint and one or more big data analytics languages - SQL, Hive, SAS, Python/PySpark and R.
• Ability to frame hypotheses, design analysis plan, structure complex analytical tasks and produce high quality solutions and implementable insights.
• Strong ownership mindset and experience in collaborating with cross-functional stakeholders and working teams across business, finance, analytics and technology.
• Enthusiasm to quickly learn, adapt and thrive in a fast-paced environment.
• Willingness to work in an international environment with a global team and clients from diverse geographies.
Bonus Points For:
• Experience working in professional services firms and/ or banking, insurance or other financial institutions.
• Prior experience in guiding and mentoring junior resources.
• Open to travel and exploring the world.
• Working knowledge of statistical techniques and practical experience in developing AI/ ML models.
• Experience in and enthusiasm towards guiding UI/UX design of visualization products (Tableau, QlikView, PowerBI) or web/ iOS applications.
