Senior Lead, Business Analytics

In Asia Pacific, BNP Paribas is one of the best-positioned international financial institutions with an uninterrupted presence since 1860. Currently with over 18,000 employees* and a presence in 13 markets, BNP Paribas provides corporates, institutional and private investors with product and service solutions tailored to their specific needs. It offers a wide range of financial services covering corporate & institutional banking, wealth management, asset management, insurance, as well as retail banking and consumer financing through strategic partnerships.

Worldwide, BNP Paribas has a presence in 68 markets with more than 193,000 employees. It has key positions in its three main activities: Domestic Markets and International Financial Services (whose retail-banking networks and financial services are covered by Retail Banking & Services) and Corporate & Institutional Banking, which serves two client franchises: corporate clients and institutional investors. Asia Pacific is a key strategic region for BNP Paribas and it continues to develop its franchise in the region.
- excluding partnerships

At BNP Paribas, we passionately embrace diversity and are committed to fostering an inclusive workplace where all employees are valued, respected and can bring their authentic selves to work. We prohibit Discrimination and Harassment of any kind and our policies promote equal employment opportunity for all employees and applicants, irrespective of, but not limited to their gender, gender identity, sex, sexual orientation, ethnicity, race, colour, national origin, age, religion, social status, mental or physical disabilities, veteran status etc. As a global Bank, we truly believe that inclusion and diversity of our teams is key to our success in serving our clients and the communities we operate in.

**Position Overview**

**Responsibilities**:
1. Leadership Role
- Lead and oversee a team of business analysts
- Develop and maintain effective working relationships within the team
- Coach and mentor members to raise critical skills, competency levels and prepare them for professional growth

2. Analytics Role
- Drive analytics activities at all stages of the analytics life-cycle - understanding business needs, defining business questions to be answered, sourcing, cleansing and transforming data, conducting data analysis, explaining analytics findings implications and proposals in business terms
- Engage stakeholders to understand business issues, opportunities and to frame it in a manner that can be analysed and modelled
- Plan and track progress of analytics development activities
- Identify and obtain relevant data, ensure proper data cleansing, transformation and aggregation rules are applied, explained and documented
- Ensure that statistical and analytics techniques applied are suitable for the issue at hand, and assumptions / constraints of the techniques are clearly understood
- Translate analytics findings and insights into actionable business proposals and activities
- Develop effective communication using data visualisation techniques, data storytelling and presentation best practices
- Present findings and recommendations

3. Collaboration Role
- Facilitate individual and team collaboration with internal and external teams
- Ensure internal data & analytics standards are enforced and reviewed for continued relevance
- Support analytics operationalisation, validate relationship between performance and result indicators

**Qualifications**:
1. Minimum 10 years of direct experience in leading data analytics teams in a banking environment
3. Bachelors or Master’s degree in Data Science, Data Analytics or Applied Statistics
4. Mastery in usage of R, Python, Tableau desktop / prep/ server and SQL
5. Proficiency in Microsoft Office and SharePoint collaboration tools.

**Skills**:
3. Critical thinking & problem solving skills - ability to assess situations, verify facts, reason logically to formulate and propose alternatives.
4. Interpersonal skills - highly driven and self-motivated, and very comfortable working with senior business executives from cross functional areas, with ability to interact with ease, collaborate with diverse teams, establish rapport and build trust.