Director, Research

2 weeks ago

Johannesburg, Gauteng, South Africa TransUnion Full time
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What We'll Bring:

Director, Financial Services Research and Consulting, South Africa

We aim high—and are reaching for new heights every day.

This is a terrific time to join our team as we build on our commitment to integrity, service, reliability and innovation.

These values stand behind the decisions we make every day, as well as our relationships at work and with the customers we serve.

We believe in the power to achieve and are taking it in bold new directions.

Join our team of associates worldwide and make a difference. Enjoy a competitive compensation and benefits plan, work-life balance and a great team atmosphere.

What You'll Bring:

What you'll bring:

  • You will draw on your extensive experience in driving thought leadership initiatives within the financial services industry.
  • You have experience in working with traditional and trended credit data and driving insights from data to address key business problems and telling an impactful story.
  • You have experience in conducting a quantitative research study from start to finish: designing the scope, analyzing the findings, and communicating it in a meaningful way to an audience of large scale.
  • You are highly credentialed, with several years of experience in increasingly senior roles at multiple financial institutions and/or consulting firms with a focus on retail banking.
  • You are also highly educated, with an advanced degree in business, statistics, operations research, finance, banking, or another related field.
  • You have an innate, unquenchable curiosity to understand why consumers and businesses behave the way they do.
  • You have tenacity—finding the answer to a difficult question is a challenge you enjoy.
  • You do not let obstacles hinder you; rather, you find innovative approaches to resolve, overcome or otherwise avoid those obstacles.
  • You are a senior leader and can drive complex projects with mínimal supervision.
  • You are adept at collaborating and managing a team of contributors to an initiative and maintaining their enthusiasm, even when they don't report to you.
  • You are comfortable in the role of a mentor, training junior analysts how to think about the consumer lending business and how to tackle complex questions analytically and systematically.
  • You are skilled at evaluating data and summary statistics to find the underlying insights, and to guide a research project in the most fruitful direction.
  • You are an expert with the Microsoft Office product suite, particularly Word, Excel and PowerPoint.
  • You are an eloquent speaker, equally comfortable addressing an audience of 4, 40 or 400.
  • You have a great sense of the BUSINESS QUESTION. You realize that data must be transformed into business intelligence to be meaningful.
  • You are comfortable discussing concepts at all levels of an organization, from entrylevel analyst to CEO. You have the ability to tailor your conversational approach to the audience—technical where you need to be, and strategic where appropriate, but always aimed at answering the business question.
  • You have a strong customer service orientation. You mean it when you ask, "How can I be of service?" You recognize that internal customers are as important as external customers.

Impact You'll Make:

How you'll contribute:

  • As an authority on consumer credit, you will drive research and analytics projects around complex market dynamics, including ideation, study design, results analysis and final publication and implications to lenders and consumers.
  • You will evaluate those dynamics and their impact on customer needs, and translate those insights into actionable strategies and revenuegenerating solution sets.
  • You will speak eloquently on behalf of TransUnion to share our insights at both our own conferences and at 3rdparty industry events.
  • You will drive our thought leadership more broadly as a TransUnion spokesperson to print, radio and television media outlets.
  • You will author articles based on our research for publication in industryspecific journals.
  • You will lead the development and ongoing execution of one or more Advisory Boards in your region, consisting of 1014 senior leaders of lending organizations (customers and prospects) who provide insights and guidance on industry trends, TransUnion research studies and new product concepts.
  • You will support our sales teams through consulting as a financial services thought leader, helping our clients identify and address emerging challenges and opportunities in the marketplace.
  • You will help educate our sales teams on consumer lending concepts, including consumer behavior dynamics, regulatory issues, economic forces, risk and marketing drivers, and more. You will support the development of
- and lead efforts to improve sales fluency and sophistication when discussing industry concepts and trends across a range of lending concepts and functions.

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