Mastercard

SeniorAnalyst,Econometrics

Prague, Czech Republic FULL TIME
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The Brief

“Senior Analyst, Econometrics at Mastercard. Skills: econometrics, statistical modeling, macro forecasting, data analysis, quantitative modeling. Develop and improve models across the entire pipeline – from data ingestion to statistical modeling, including macro scenarios, and communicating the results to key stakeholders. Leverage Mastercard data to improve contemporaneous macro forecasting via nowcasting”

Industry & Context.

Problems you'll solve

independent thinker

What They're Looking For.

Must Have

Quantitative modeling experience 2-4+ years, Good foundation in economics, advanced degree in math/statistics/quantitative field, Expertise in one or more of R, Python, Julia, MATLAB or similar

Nice to Have

Interest/experience in some of the following: machine learning (supervised and unsupervised), NLP, time series analysis, and text analysis on economic and financial data sets, client facing experience, Evidence of creativity/innovation/unorthodox thinking in data driven economics

What You'll Do.

Develop and improve models across the entire pipeline – from data ingestion to statistical modeling

including macro scenarios

and communicating the results to key stakeholders

Leverage Mastercard data to improve contemporaneous macro forecasting via nowcasting

Improve variable selection and reduction techniques to identify high quality predictive variables

Improve model estimation approaches and model back testing

Identify patterns or anomalies in the datasets being explored

produce concise insights for the Economist to allow fast interpretation of results

Research and integrate econometric and statistical models as needed in order to create insights and compelling visualizations of data trends to develop interactive dashboards/apps for client presentations

Work closely with our customers

economic advisory product and customer teams to translate client pain points/requirements into business and data specifications

clear data structure and eventually a usable data set/model/forecast/insights.

Participate in every stage of a project from briefing to ideation

to content development to draft/prototyping

feedback collection and finalization

How You'll Work.

Team & Collaboration

Work closely with our customers, client services, economic advisory product and customer teams

Communication Scope

communicating the results to key stakeholders; synthesizing data to create insights; great storyteller

Process & Methodology

managing large models, managing multiple projects and tight timelines, ability to reprioritize as situation might require

Full Job Description

**Our Purpose** _Mastercard powers economies and empowers people in 200 + countries and territories worldwide. Together with our customers, we’re helping build a sustainable economy where everyone can prosper. We support a wide range of digital payments choices, making transactions secure, simple, smart and accessible. Our technology and innovation, partnerships and networks combine to deliver a unique set of products and services that help people, businesses and governments realize their greatest potential._ **Title and Summary** ### Senior Analyst, Econometrics ### We are looking for an econometrician to join Mastercard’s Economics Institute’s data science and econometrics team. This individual will be critical to growing the institute’s ability to support and enhance revenue products like advisory services, disseminate content to our stakeholders, and quantitative research outputs. This client interfacing role provides the opportunity to work with leading companies across different industries and deliver insights using unique, rich, multi-faceted data sources & developing frontier level insights and methods. We are looking for an individual who will: • Develop and improve models across the entire pipeline – from data ingestion to statistical modeling, including macro scenarios, and communicating the results to key stakeholders • Leverage Mastercard data to improve contemporaneous macro forecasting via nowcasting • Improve variable selection and reduction techniques to identify high quality predictive variables • Improve model estimation approaches and model back testing • Identify patterns or anomalies in the datasets being explored, produce concise insights for the Economist to allow fast interpretation of results • Research and integrate econometric and statistical models as needed in order to create insights and compelling visualizations of data trends to develop interactive dashboards/apps for client presentations • Work closely with our customers, client ser

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