We invite you to explore a future with us at PRA Group, a diverse and growing company that has a tangible impact on the global economy.
Position Summary:
Handles moderately complex issues and problems. Applies practical knowledge of principles and practices of area of specialty. Supports, but also leads simple to moderately complex projects and programs.Designs, develops, implements, and maintains data programming solutions for data quality and business rules analysis, hypothesis testing, champion/challenger testing, and product or strategy decision advancements. Maintains a techical process expertise through understanding of the software solutions, technical steps, and underlying data used to execute the decisioning. Subject matter expert on the input and output of data to support any research or advancements. Programs for the desired workflow of data decisions and hypothesis testing. Maintains a quality and control aspect of the data execution used for decision making. Is able to build data visualizations to report and inform others what is occuring in the underlying data.
This is a hybrid position working onsite in our office 3 days per week.
Professional Experience:
- Intermediate-level experience in Data Mining, Data Analysis, Report building and SQL with strong data mining/data visualization capabilities
- Experience with creating dashboards using either Power BI, Tableau or Qlik
- Prefer someone with experience working with Excel and GitHub
- 1-3 years of professional work experience.
- Good understanding and curiosity regarding business as well as ability to communicate effectively with stakeholders
- Education: BA/BS in a Science, Technology, Engineering, Mathematics (STEM) or quantitative field
Solid working experience with:
- Ability to write SQL code for intermediate query level functioning doing inner, left and right joins, etc.
- Importing/exporting data into SQL Server from various sources (text files, spreadsheets, Access DBs)
- Creating ODBC connections to SQL Server from Excel Spreadsheets or Access DBs so that end users can refresh reports directly in Excel or Access
- Creating/Modifying/Executing T-SQL Queries and Scripts
- Any experience with either Oracle or Microsoft Fabric is preferred
- Mining, cleaning, and managing large data sets and troubleshoot data issues identified
- Data preparation methods handling of missing data and general imputation
Key Responsibilities:
- Provide data mining, cleaning, and data analysis using database programming/mining tools.
- Execution and troubleshooting of coding processes.
- Conduct data analysis to identify the impact of process changes
- Enhance the monitoring and control mechanisms to business processes to ensure we maintain compliance with policies and procedures.
- Maintain documentation along with change management and testing documentation as required.
- Support existing dashboards for activity performance as it relates to business processes being maintained by the department.
- Research data issues and report and resolve discrepancies.
- Assist other senior data leads in executing projects, ad-hoc request, or technical execution of changes when it comes to data or activities.
Salary Range:
$73,900.00 - $110,900.00PRA Group has an effective process for assessing market data and establishing ranges to ensure we remain competitive. Actual compensation is influenced by a wide array of factors including but not limited to skill set, level of experience, specific working location and market position. This posted salary range is a good faith and reasonable estimate, and PRA Group reserves the right to adjust this range depending on the qualifications and location of the selected candidate. In addition to base salary, PRA may offer additional benefits to include performance based bonus programs and/or equity programs depending on the position. PRA offers paid time off, medical, dental, vision, 401k match, life insurance, and other benefits to assist with the physical and mental wellbeing of our employees.
All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment regardless of age, race, color, sex, gender, religion, national origin, physical or mental disability, citizenship, or any other classes recognized by state or local law or any other characteristic protected under applicable federal, state or local law. We are a drug free workplace.
To qualify, applicants must be legally authorized to work in the United States, and should not require, now or in the future, sponsorship for employment visa status.
Skills Required
- 1-3 years of professional work experience
- Intermediate-level experience in data mining, data analysis, report building, and SQL
- Strong data mining and data visualization capabilities
- Experience creating dashboards using Power BI, Tableau, or Qlik
- Ability to write intermediate SQL queries, including inner, left, and right joins
- Experience importing and exporting data into SQL Server from text files, spreadsheets, and Access databases
- Experience creating ODBC connections to SQL Server from Excel or Access
- Experience creating, modifying, and executing T-SQL queries and scripts
- Experience mining, cleaning, and managing large datasets and troubleshooting data issues
- Knowledge of data preparation methods, including missing-data handling and imputation
- Good understanding of business concepts and ability to communicate effectively with stakeholders
- BA or BS in a STEM or quantitative field
- Experience with Excel
- Experience with GitHub
- Experience with Oracle or Microsoft Fabric
What We Do
As a global leader in acquiring and collecting nonperforming loans, PRA Group returns capital to banks and other creditors to help expand financial services for consumers. With thousands of employees worldwide, PRA Group companies collaborate with customers to help them resolve their debt and provide a broad range of additional revenue and recovery services to business clients. Our employees around the world play a key role in shaping our identity. By doing things the right way for the right reasons, treating others with fairness and respect, and valuing diversity and inclusion, our employees will sustain us into the future. Our company culture is the foundation for everything we do. Since our founding, we have been focused on making a difference. We make it a priority to strengthen the communities where we work and live. Our employees support the mission in both time and money. To enhance that generosity, we match their contributions and we honor their civic spirit with paid time off to participate in Volunteer Days.
