Analytics at Ebay

Primary Job Responsibilities
This role is for a corporate level initiative that will leverage cutting edge technologies in analytics, data mining, advanced statistics, visualization, stream processing and many other multi-disciplinary technologies. This role offers a unique opportunity to innovate and work with data, technology, and people from all eBay companies (Market Places, PayPal, Skype, StubHub, Shopping.com, etc).

• Be the lead analyst to support a major new analytical initiative involving eBay subsidiaries – Marketplaces (eBay.com), PayPal and Skype
• Work with Product Management partners to understand fraud reduction use cases and evaluate benefits
• Reduce losses by analyzing and correlating fraud patterns across the three platforms and suggesting new models, techniques, and technology
• Accelerate favorable risk treatment for new and recent users by analyzing and correlating legitimate use across the three platforms
• Explore the use of traditional and advanced statistical techniques like logistic regression, Bayesian trees, decision trees, machine learning/neural networks, clustering, link analysis, graph theory and network theory to gain new insights on cross-company data, which in turn result in actionable ways to reduce fraud and risk without compromising business growth
• Applying risk/fraud models to predict and control risk associated with new accounts, and to combat credit card fraud, bank account fraud, identity theft fraud, spoof fraud etc.
• Preparing and extracting data from large databases.
• Analyzing data covering a wide range of information from user profile to transaction history. Identifying new fraud patterns through data mining.

Job Requirements

• Strong academic profile including an undergraduate or graduate degree in Statistics, Mathematics, Computer Science, Physics, Operations Research and Econometrics
• Experience in analyzing massive and highly complex data sets, performing ad-hoc analysis and data manipulation
• Familiarity with standard statistical analysis techniques and model development techniques
• Ideal candidate would have one or more of the following
• Applications of statistical techniques to real world problems
• Understanding of risk management techniques (e.g., logistic regression, score carding etc)
• Ability to package and present analysis to a senior audience; in particular, the ability to simply communicate complex ideas to diverse business and technology audiences
• Ability to work with large cross-functional teams
• Strong “business/common sense” for the potential of analyses to produce short-term and long-term business benefits
• Ability to deal with ambiguity in terms of requirements and timelines
• 3years of experience in data management and quantitative analyses
• Expert skills in SQL and SAS (on SQL Server, Oracle, or Teradata)
• Strong skills in Excel, Access, and PowerPoint
• Strong skills in major statistical packages (e.g., SAS, Matlab, SPSS)

Education
Bachelors Degree Required

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Monetization Analyst at Yahoo

Location : Sunnyvale, CA
Description : Responsibilities:
 Drive the optimization of Yahoo’s business strategy across Emerging Markets via data analysis, insight generation, and actionable recommendations.
 Apply fundamental economic, statistical and accounting concepts throughout the business.
 Conceptualize, develop and execute projects across the business in support of the Direct Sales team, the Online Sales channel, the Marketing team and the Business Development team.
 Interact cross-functionally within Yahoo! to identify and execute upon synergistic operational opportunities.
 Collaborate with members of other functional teams to develop a shared understanding of operational performance drivers and key metrics.
 Support and oversee the implementation and measurement of sales and marketing programs.
 Participate in the development of tactical and strategic action items given results of data analyses.
 Support the 3 Year Strategic Plan and the Annual Plan through insight on revenues and operating metrics
 Identification of trends and ongoing marketplace intelligence in the online media space.
 Generate regular reports and track business performance against goals.
 Regularly communicate with various country offices, business units and the corporate office.

Skills/Qualifications:
 Minimum of 4 years of analytical work experience in a top tier company. Bachelor’s Degree in a business or analytical field from a top university.
 Familiarity with the Internet media landscape and online business models a plus.
 Strong analytical skills as demonstrated through multiple experiences in leading the scoping, defining, modeling and quantification of economic aspects of a challenging business problem.
 Ability to handle multiple projects simultaneously in a fast-paced environment.
 Demonstrated ability to take ownership over increasingly larger projects.
 Exceptional analytic skills and conceptual thinking ability.
 Knowledge of basic financial principles, reporting, and ratios.
 Ability to see big picture while effectively managing details.
 Manipulate large, sometimes disparate sources of data into a cohesive data set.
 Very strong computer skills, especially in Excel, Access and PowerPoint. Experience with statistical modeling packages a plus.
 Strong oral and written communication skills with the ability to translate complicated data into presentable format for executive leadership.
 Some international travel required.

Due to the volume of inquiries that we receive, we regret that we can only respond to those applicants who possess the experience and qualifications most closely matching the requirements of the positions currently available. Please, no calls.
Yahoo! is an Equal Opportunity Employer.

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