Financial Services - Data, Analytics, & Technology - Director

About the Role

Key Responsibilities

• Lead in line with PwC's values and brand, developing new ideas, solutions, and structures; driving thought leadership.
• Solve problems by exploring multiple angles and using creativity, encouraging others to do the same.
• Balance long-term, short-term, detail-oriented, and big picture thinking to make strategic choices and drive change.
• Promote technological advances and create an environment where people and technology thrive together.
• Identify gaps in the market and convert opportunities to success for the firm.
• Adhere to and enforce professional and technical standards, including PwC tax and audit guidance, the firm's code of conduct, and independence requirements.

Requirements

• Minimum of a Bachelor's Degree.
• At least 10 years of experience in relevant fields.
• Demonstrates thought leader abilities with success in developing credit and capital models within the financial services sector, including banking, consulting, or regulatory positions.
• Knowledge in securities and derivatives valuation, risk management, market and credit risk models, mortgage prepayment models, and complex discounted cash flow models.
• Experience in building, developing, and migrating models to cloud-based data science platforms.
• Proficiency in statistical and machine learning techniques for analyzing large financial datasets, including sampling, hypothesis testing, optimization, time series, regression, decision trees, and clustering.
• Ability to visualize complex financial data analyses.
• Knowledge of statistical modeling using SAS, R, Excel/VBA, SQL, Python, and other programming languages.
• Experience with cloud-based data solutions such as AWS, Azure, Data Bricks, Snowflake, or AI/ML platforms like Dataiku.
• Understanding of Data Lakes, Data Warehouses, and Data Analytics best practices.
• Strong client relationship-building skills, effective communication, and problem-solving abilities.
• Ability to research and analyze industry and technical matters, and to work collaboratively within teams.

Nice to Have

• Advanced Degree in Mathematics or other quantitative disciplines.

Qualifications

• Bachelor Degree required.
• Minimum of 10 years of relevant experience.
• Preferred fields of study include Financial Mathematics, Mathematical Economics, Mathematical Statistics, Statistics, Applied Mathematics, Mathematics, Engineering, and Business.
• Advanced Degree in Mathematics or related quantitative field preferred.

Benefits & Perks

• Competitive salary range of $155,000 - $410,000 plus potential annual discretionary bonus.
• Wide range of benefits including medical, dental, vision, 401k, holiday pay, vacation, personal and family sick leave.
• Opportunities for professional growth and challenging, meaningful work.