Client Services Senior Data Analyst - Authenticlick (Los Angeles, CA)

Authenticlick: Client Services Senior Data Analyst – Los Angeles, California

Join our outstanding team at Authenticlick, a privately-held, VC-backed company. We aim to drive the standard for internet traffic optimization, audit, and quality measurement for the online advertising industry. We are looking for Senior Data Analysts that have a “think outside the box” approach to data analysis with a focus on client needs. The ideal candidate enjoys working in a fast paced environment with the skills to multitask several projects and clients. Our industry requires that we stay one step ahead of the game, and we look for employees who take it upon themselves to help the company achieve this goal.

Are you the person we are looking for?

Responsibilities:

• Work in the Client Services team to provide the most beneficial data analysis for our client’s to use in optimizing their ROI
• Help clients use the data we provide to optimize their ROI directly
• Manage client accounts
• Work closely with and support the Director of Client Services
• Support VP, Client Services
• Analyze client’s data and identify trends and patterns in traffic behavior
• Provide research and comprehensive data analysis to Clients
• Receive customer feedback from Clients and from Product Development team, and take action on analysis based on feedback
• Identify and validate key metrics, analyze test results, and manage related reports
• Work in both individual and team environments, depending upon project
• On occasion work with the Chief Science Officer on projects that may arise
• Bring positive energy to the team!

Requirements and Qualifications:

• 3+ years in an data analyst position
• 1+ year(s) in a client services position
• Minimum bachelor’s degree in mathematics or related field
• Strong analytical and quantitative skills required
• Strong communication skills
• Ability to work in team and individual environments
• Familiarity with online advertising, SEM, SEO, etc.
• Familiarity regarding issues surrounding internet traffic quality (PPC, Impression, etc.) a plus
• Desire to work in a startup environment
• Enthusiastic attitude

Benefits:

• Competitive Salary
• Stock Options
• Medical, Dental and Vision insurance
• Opportunity to mold a nascent industry

Please send Cover Letter and Resume to jobs@authenticlick.net. Please put the job title in the subject line of the e-mail.

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Investment Data Analyst (Baltimore, MD)

Primary Purpose of the Position

Working independently and on teams and committees, this position is responsible for providing front office investment support for Portfolio Managers, Analysts, and Traders. In addition, the incumbent must maintain good working relationships with Front Office Investment clients and TRPA staff. Works closely with quantitative analysts, portfolio managers, investment analysts, and traders to investigate, design, automate or enhance investment processes and applications and to ensure that Fixed Income systems, databases, internal workflows and vendors evolve to appropriately keep pace with internal and external reporting needs for core and analytic data at security, portfolio, product and sector levels.

Principal Responsibilities

• Investigates new products/vendors to automate and streamline workflow and data processes for investment associates -Portfolio Managers, Analysts, and Traders.
• Works closely with quantitative analyst, portfolio managers, investment analyst, and traders to develop analytical systems/reports to be used by the investment associates for investment management/decision support. Takes the lead on coordinating and executing required systems testing for enhancements and upgrades; partners with TRPIT and HiNet developers to ensure complete, efficient connectivity between all relevant systems.
• Designs, plans, and develops solutions that automate and streamline processes for Investment Associates.
• Seeks creative solutions to business problems. Investigates/researches integration of new products into/with full array of analytical systems (Salomon Yield Book, Vision, Lehman Point, Perform, Wilshire Axiom, etc.) that assist the Investment process; provides system administration support for ancillary and primary analytical tools (SYB, Point, Perform, etc.)
• Manages large data sets and resolves research data issues. Ensures data integrity, maintains data quality, resolves data discrepancies and identifies "gold standard" sources of information. Networks with appropriate upstream and downstream customers, vendors, service teams and developers to ensure data errors are resolved and processes are revised in order to mitigate risk of repeat issues; may also represent Investment Staff by serving on committees and project teams (e.g., MIDR Data Policy Committee) for evolving data needs and reporting along with impacts of regulatory changes.

Qualifications

• College degree and 4 yrs related work experience required
• Financial Industry experience
• Detail oriented
• Technical background / Strong design skills
• Ability to handle multiple task
• Substantial technical or statistical programming skills, with demonstrable ability to employ those skills to solve complex modeling challenges in a limited time. Experience with Matlab and/or Splus is an advantage, as is knowledge of database management systems.
• Ability to master complex tasks with minimal supervision

Experience with:

• Java, C++, Object Oriented Programming/Design
• Integrating Products
• Perl
• CGI programming
• HTML
• Unix Skills a must
• Self starter requiring minimum supervision
• Splus knowledge
• Vision Database Knowledge desirable

Send your resume with cover letter to: robyn_bogash [at] troweprice.com

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SAS Data Analyst, Insurance Research and Development

Are you interested in becoming a highly skilled subject matter expert who can provide expertise to key projects within Personal Insurance? How would you like to be an integral person in a cutting edge organization that develops innovative models that are used to price insurance products? Tired of doing the same work every day? If so, then we have the position for you!

Position Summary

In this unique position the chosen candidate will have the chance to learn about all aspects of the personal property and casualty insurance industry from true experts in the field. The incumbent will gain knowledge and experience that could lead to a variety of opportunities for advancement.

We are looking for a creative, logical, inquisitive, assertive analyst to develop key data sets for our Research and Modeling projects. This analyst will learn about insurance products, isolate new data sources/elements, utilize SAS to develop and perform logical extraction and transformation of data, delve into root cause analyses, and validate crucial data sources. This position offers diverse responsibilities that change with each new project. The incumbent will reside in a business organization and partner with our Research Modeling staff, Product Management organization, IT organization, and external vendors to develop extremely large data sets to support our modeling efforts. Candidates with diverse analytical backgrounds are encouraged to apply.

Primary Duties

• Obtain, load and cleanse data sources
• Develop and perform logical extraction and transformation of data
• Manipulate extremely large data sets using SAS (primarily), Access, Excel and other tools
• Serve as a leading expert for our internal modeling data sets that the incumbent will be responsible for building
• Validate data through reasonability tests, balancing and other methods
• Build efficient data procedures
• Analyze root causes of data issues
• Write Unix scripts
• Program SAS Macros

Work Experience

• Demonstrated SAS/SQL programming experience is required; including expertise in SAS Macros and SQL concepts
• Extensive experience analyzing and manipulating large data sets is essential
• Hands on experience in designing, developing, implementing, and validating mapping/transformation processes
• Moderate knowledge of database principles; including linking data across multiple data sources, building moderate to complex queries, and checking data for errors
• Experience with varied internal and external complex data sources
• Expertise in identification of data discrepancies and resolution of these issues
• Self-management of data oriented projects
• Basic knowledge of insurance products and operations
• Excellent problem-solving skills
• Self-starting attitude
• Strong quantitative/analytical background
• Consistent high attention to detail

Communication Skills

• Effectively communicates project status and needs to manager in concise and efficient manner
• Experience in creating new and maintaining project documentation including; project plans, procedures/data manipulations, issues lists, status, and timelines
• Has experience communicating detailed technical work to non-technical audiences
• Demonstrated ability to interface with business users to clarify data mapping/transformation requirements and business rules
• Experience in working with business partners/vendors to translate business requirements into potentially complex technical solutions that meet or exceed our business needs

Computer Skills

• Solid understanding of computers, programming, database tools/software, and Microsoft productivity applications
• Expert knowledge in SAS (Base SAS, Data Step, and Proc SQL, SAS Macro), or moderate knowledge of SAS and SQL with strong aptitude
• Unix experience, preferred

Certificates/Degrees

College degree in MIS, programming, mathematics, economics, finance, actuarial science or related field.

This is a mid-level full-time position.

E-mail your resume with cover letter to: Ted.White [at] travelers.com

Keywords

Data Mining, Text Miner, Enterprise Miner, Business Intelligence,
Statistics, Marketing Data, SAS Analytics, Platform Actuary,
SQL, Predictive Modeling, Data Consultant, Data Analyst,
Operations Research, SAS, Actuarial, Data,
Extract, Transform, Transformation, Load,
Unix, Model, Modeling, Logic,
Root Cause, Mapping SAS Macro, Base SAS,
Proc Sort, Proc Contents, Data Analysis, Qualitative,
Quantitative, Analytics, Data warehouse, Insurance,
Data Cleansing, Scripts, SAS/Stat, Graph,
S-PLUS, SPSS, Enterprise Guide, Metadata,
Statistics, Statistical, Regression, Cognos,
Business Objects, Hyperion, Macro, Unix,
Data Mining, Text Miner, Enterprise Miner, Business Intelligence,
Statistics, Marketing Data, SAS Analytics Platform, Actuary

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Investment Data Analyst (Baltimore, MD)

Primary Purpose of the Position

Working independently and on teams and committees, this position is responsible for providing front office investment support for Portfolio Managers, Analysts, and Traders. In addition, the incumbent must maintain good working relationships with Front Office Investment clients and TRPA staff. Works closely with quantitative analysts, portfolio managers, investment analysts, and traders to investigate, design, automate or enhance investment processes and applications and to ensure that Fixed Income systems, databases, internal workflows and vendors evolve to appropriately keep pace with internal and external reporting needs for core and analytic data at security, portfolio, product and sector levels.

Principal Responsibilities

• Investigates new products/vendors to automate and streamline workflow and data processes for investment associates -Portfolio Managers, Analysts, and Traders.
• Works closely with quantitative analyst, portfolio managers, investment analyst, and traders to develop analytical systems/reports to be used by the investment associates for investment management/decision support. Takes the lead on coordinating and executing required systems testing for enhancements and upgrades; partners with TRPIT and HiNet developers to ensure complete, efficient connectivity between all relevant systems.
• Designs, plans, and develops solutions that automate and streamline processes for Investment Associates.
• Seeks creative solutions to business problems. Investigates/researches integration of new products into/with full array of analytical systems (Salomon Yield Book, Vision, Lehman Point, Perform, Wilshire Axiom, etc.) that assist the Investment process; provides system administration support for ancillary and primary analytical tools (SYB, Point, Perform, etc.)
• Manages large data sets and resolves research data issues. Ensures data integrity, maintains data quality, resolves data discrepancies and identifies "gold standard" sources of information. Networks with appropriate upstream and downstream customers, vendors, service teams and developers to ensure data errors are resolved and processes are revised in order to mitigate risk of repeat issues; may also represent Investment Staff by serving on committees and project teams (e.g., MIDR Data Policy Committee) for evolving data needs and reporting along with impacts of regulatory changes.

Qualifications

• College degree and 4 yrs related work experience required
• Financial Industry experience
• Detail oriented
• Technical background / Strong design skills
• Ability to handle multiple task
• Substantial technical or statistical programming skills, with demonstrable ability to employ those skills to solve complex modeling challenges in a limited time. Experience with Matlab and/or Splus is an advantage, as is knowledge of database management systems.
• Ability to master complex tasks with minimal supervision

Experience with:

• SAS and SQL required
• Java, C++, Object Oriented Programming/Design desired
• Integrating Products
• Perl
• CGI programming
• HTML
• Unix Skills a must
• Self starter requiring minimum supervision
• Splus knowledge
• Vision Database Knowledge desirable

T Rowe Price is an Equal Opportunity Employer

E-mail your resume with cover letter to Karen_Robinson@troweprice.com

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Analyst - R.W. Beck (Orlando, FL)

R. W. Beck, Inc. is a premier international business consulting firm that provides planning, financial and engineering solutions to our clients in the Energy, Solid Waste, Water and Water Resources industries. We do this by combining our business acumen with our technical expertise to help our clients confront the impacts of aging infrastructures and solve economic and technical challenges. With more than 25 offices around the world we are always looking for qualified engineers, consultants, scientists, and technicians to fill positions to help our clients in the energy, utility, financial, water resources, and solid waste industries.

Our differentiator is the quality of our people and the way we do business – with absolute commitment to objectivity and building trust. We blend our technical expertise with proven business acumen to deliver innovative solutions to our clients. And we have been doing it since 1942.

We offer our employees an attractive total compensation package. Competitive, market-based wages may be augmented by additional profit sharing and spot bonuses, in addition to our comprehensive benefits solutions, tailored to fit every employees needs.

We are often told that we are the engineering and consulting industry’s best kept secret – come check us out at www.rwbeck.com

Description:

R. W. Beck is seeking a candidate for the position of analyst for our Management Economic Consulting group (MEC), which serves the electric utility industry. The successful candidate will work in a team atmosphere assisting Project Managers by performing detailed analytical analyses and assisting in project execution. Responsibilities will include, but may not be limited to:

• Analysis of financial and non-financial data.
• Preparation and analysis of financial projections and forecasts.
• Preparation of cost of service and rate analysis.
• Research and compilation of project data.
• Development of project reports, analytical work papers, and project presentations.
• Assist in preparation of project proposals and other business development efforts.

Experience Required:

• B.S. or B.A. degree in Economics, Finance, Accounting, Business Administration, Public Administration, engineering, or other related field. M.B.A. or M.P.A. preferred but not required. Candidate must have G.P.A. of 3.0 or better in their major field of study
• 2-3 years applicable experience, preferably related to the electric utility industry
• Excellent oral and written communication skills
• Excellent analytical skills
• High level of proficiency in the use of Microsoft Excel, Word, and PowerPoint. Experience with Microsoft Access preferred, but not required
• Ability to work independently or as part of a team
• Ability to meet deadlines under pressure
• Bilingual candidates are highly encouraged to apply

Apply Online

Employer Job Code: 07-0128

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Analyst - R.W. Beck (Orlando, FL)

R. W. Beck, Inc. is a premier international business consulting firm that provides planning, financial and engineering solutions to our clients in the Energy, Solid Waste, Water and Water Resources industries. We do this by combining our business acumen with our technical expertise to help our clients confront the impacts of aging infrastructures and solve economic and technical challenges. With more than 25 offices around the world we are always looking for qualified engineers, consultants, scientists, and technicians to fill positions to help our clients in the energy, utility, financial, water resources, and solid waste industries.

Our differentiator is the quality of our people and the way we do business – with absolute commitment to objectivity and building trust. We blend our technical expertise with proven business acumen to deliver innovative solutions to our clients. And we have been doing it since 1942.

We offer our employees an attractive total compensation package. Competitive, market-based wages may be augmented by additional profit sharing and spot bonuses, in addition to our comprehensive benefits solutions, tailored to fit every employees needs.

We are often told that we are the engineering and consulting industry’s best kept secret – come check us out at www.rwbeck.com

Description:

R. W. Beck is seeking a candidate for the position of analyst for our Management Economic Consulting group (MEC), which serves the electric utility industry. The successful candidate will work in a team atmosphere assisting Project Managers by performing detailed analytical analyses and assisting in project execution. Responsibilities will include, but may not be limited to:

• Analysis of financial and non-financial data.
• Preparation and analysis of financial projections and forecasts.
• Preparation of cost of service and rate analysis.
• Research and compilation of project data.
• Development of project reports, analytical work papers, and project presentations.
• Assist in preparation of project proposals and other business development efforts.

Experience Required:

• B.S. or B.A. degree in Economics, Finance, Accounting, Business Administration, Public Administration, engineering, or other related field. M.B.A. or M.P.A. preferred but not required. Candidate must have G.P.A. of 3.0 or better in their major field of study
• 2-3 years applicable experience, preferably related to the electric utility industry
• Excellent oral and written communication skills
• Excellent analytical skills
• High level of proficiency in the use of Microsoft Excel, Word, and PowerPoint. Experience with Microsoft Access preferred, but not required
• Ability to work independently or as part of a team
• Ability to meet deadlines under pressure
• Bilingual candidates are highly encouraged to apply

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Internet E-Marketing Analyst (Memphis, TN)

Raise hope.

At ALSAC/St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital, we do more than bring in money. We lift spirits. While financial success is essential to continuing our world-class research and treatment of children with life-threatening diseases around the globe, it leads to other great things as well, like smiling faces and tears of joy. Help people learn why giving to our organization gives hope to countless others.

Internet E-Marketing Analyst

Responsible for specifying, gathering, analyzing, and reporting all metrics related to Internet initiatives including revenue, CPA, CPC, CTR, ROI, open rates, conversion rates, and Web behavior on all the entire Internet portfolio of sites and campaigns.

Bachelor's degree and four years of Internet campaign management, including two years in a lead role required. Master's degree in related discipline is preferred. Hands-on Web analytics and multichannel campaign planning, execution and reporting on a national level a must. Requires rigorous testing online using email and banner advertisements for acquisition and cultivation campaigns on a national level. Knowledge of the Internet and Internet products including search tools, search providers, search tracking software, Web analytics, Web trends and Pilot and multimedia essential. Complete proficiency with Microsoft Office with Excel mastery and Microsoft Project, PowerPoint, and VISIO required. Experience using Adobe PhotoShop, Microsoft FrontPage 2000, HTML and visual HTML tools like Dreamweaver or FrontPage knowledge a plus. Data warehouse tools preferred (ex. Business Objects). Excellent communications skills, including grammar and writing ability, a must. Ability to work in a fast-paced, team-oriented environment with rapidly changing technology is essential. Must be willing to adapt to new software packages and assist in department training. Ability to get results in an ambiguous environment is critical to success. Knowledge of Vignette content management and Dialog desired. Must possess a valid driver's license.

We appreciate your commitment, as do those we're trying to cure. Our world-renowned organization offers competitive pay and benefits, the resources to do the best work of your career, and the stability of a high-growth industry. For consideration, please forward your resume including cover letter and salary requirements, indicating Reference Code: ANAINTEMRKT to: ALSAC/St. Jude, Attn: ALSAC Recruiter, 501 St. Jude Place, Memphis, TN 38105. Fax: (901)-578-2807; E-mail: alsac.recruiter@stjude.org. Employment is contingent upon successful drug screen and background investigations, including criminal, credit and driving.

www.stjude.org - equal opportunity employer

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