Investment Analyst
PRA Group (Nasdaq: PRAA)
full-time
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Location Type: Office
Location: Norfolk • North Carolina • Virginia • United States
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About the role
- Follows standardized practices/procedures while working on routine assignments.
- Applies broad theoretical knowledge obtained through education.
- Supports projects and programs.
- Primary point of responsibility for the quantitative and qualitative analysis of individual investment opportunities.
- Collects and analyzes data for the development of investment/forecasting strategies for one or more portfolios and interprets price, yield, stability, or other financial metrics.
- Track and report on current or expected financial performance and makes recommendations meant to improve portfolio returns.
- Drives innovation and development of future techniques to continuously improve underwriting results and processes.
- Assist with ad-hoc project work when needed.
- Maintain ongoing self-study programs to enhance knowledge of various software and computer languages, including, but not limited to SQL, Visual Basic, MS Access, MS Excel, R and Python.
- Present ad-hoc, research, and study findings to peers and management.
- Research the cause and effects of known problems discovered through the data when assigned.
- Work closely with subject matter experts to correctly document changes and improvements to policies and procedures.
- Assist with audits and research to verify accuracy of historical pool forecast data.
- Prepare templated pricing materials under supervision as needed for the underwriting department.
- Verify data produced by the underwriting department is stored accurately.
- Help with audits where necessary.
Requirements
- Must have effective organizational, time-management and high attention to detail skills.
- Strong data analysis capability with technical knowledge.
- Strong excel skills (charts/graphs/formulas/Visual Basic Application (VBA)/data tables/goal seek).
- Basic version control knowledge –(Example: GitHub).
- Entry level knowledge of relational database programming tools for extracting data such as SQL.
- Ability to learn SQL code for intermediate query level functioning including the ability to:
- Import data into SQL Server from various sources (text files, spreadsheets, Access Data Bases)
- Export data out of SQL Server to various targets (text files, spreadsheets, Data Bases).
- Execute existing Transact-SQL (T-SQL) Queries and Scripts.
- Modify T-SQL Queries and Scripts.
- Create T-SQL Queries and Scripts.
- Ability to mine, clean, and manage large data sets and troubleshoot data issues identified.
- Knowledge of data preparation methods: handling of missing data and general imputation.
- In-depth knowledge of concepts and processes including: Analytical problem-solving skills.
- Ability to complete business problem solving tasks when assigned.
- Ability to interpret data, identify trends, and report data findings.
- Intermediate level of analytics autonomy and independence.
- Project implementation focus.
- Capable of day-to-day project oversight on task needed to execute.
- Intermediate-level experience in business analytics.
- Knowledge of Financial Services and/or non-performing loan market preferred.
- BA/BS in a Business, Finance, Science, Technology, Engineering, Mathematics (STEM) or quantitative field.
Benefits
- Drug free workplace
Applicant Tracking System Keywords
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Hard Skills & Tools
SQLVisual BasicMS AccessMS ExcelRPythondata analysisTransact-SQL (T-SQL)data preparation methodsbusiness analytics
Soft Skills
organizational skillstime-managementattention to detailanalytical problem-solvingindependenceproject implementation focusdata interpretationtrend identificationcommunication skillscollaboration