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Core Portfolio Analyst, L

Location:UK - London - L
Salary:40000 Per Annum
Type:Full-Time Permanent
Sector:Banking - Corporate Banking
Company:Marks Sattin
Posted:06-11-08

Job Description

One of the largest retail banks in the UK has an exciting opportunity for a Core Portfolio Analyst. Reporting to the Senior Manager of Core Portfolio Analytics you would work within a team of 12 and will report directly to the Snr Manager, Core Portfolio Analytics. The incumbent would be responsible for delivering insights and tracking the profitability for key product portfolios such as MasterCard and Visa Platinum, Gold, Classic products as well as legacy products. For this, the position requires robust data mining to generate detailed analytics and finally tracking of key profitability drivers such as balances, spend, price, risk, fees and insurance to ensure that product P&L targets and the overall Core portfolio income targets are met. Candidates Ideal Background:- The Card & Payments business is responsible for the development, promotion and management of consumer payment products for the business, encompasses credit cards, debit cards and travel as well as our acquiring business and new payment products and technologies (e.g. pre-paid, contact less and mobile payments). Our strategy will be to build on the success of our Cards businesses with the goal of driving further growth and maintaining our international leadership position. This will be accomplished through deeper customer insight of customer payment behaviour and by offering innovative solutions to meet our customers changing needs. Candidates will only be considered with relevant experience of analytics in Cards within Financial services companies. Key Responsibilities: * Drive robust data mining and collection to support astute analytics required to ensure a sound and vigorous understanding of the product portfolios and all related credit card drivers * Manage portfolio segment scorecards/dashboards which need to be updated on a monthly basis and analysis shared within the Core team and key business partners * Develop spreadsheet models to simulate customer behaviour and analyse their impacts on product profitability * Assist in the development and monitoring of the annual and quarterly product profitability plans. This will include marketing and financial planning and forecasting * Liaise with key business partners such as risk, finance, marketing and Customer Value Management during the Data collection and analysis process * Utilise the insights to assist the team in identifying value creation activities and to support business case development by analysing the impact of changes to key drivers Skills required: * Good proficiency in MS-Excel modelling and ability to quickly apply analysis for decision making * Extensive experience with data mining using SAS/SQL coding techniques * Possess strong analytical and quantitative skills and good commercial judgement * High level of comfort with numbers and ability to analyse large data sets to come to relevant business conclusions * Ability to use the above skill set to effectively present the findings and influence the decisions based on facts Key words: Analyst, Analysis, Analytics, Credit Card, MS-Excel modelling, SAS/SQL coding techniques, Robust Data Mining. Please Apply sending your CV, Current salary details and notice period to Claire Smith quoting CSM108915

Contact:Banking
Reference:CSM108915