Senior Data & Forecasting Analyst (Python)

Your opportunity

At Schwab, you're empowered to make an impact on your career. Here, innovative thoughts meet creative problem solving, helping us "challenge the status quo" and transform the finance industry together. 

We believe in the importance pf in-office collaboration and fully intend for the selected candidates for this role to work on site in the specified 

Our ideal candidate will have a strong background in data science, statistical analysis, and reporting. You will be responsible for developing analytical solutions, building predictive models, and creating reports to help manage resource capacity for large-scale technology organizations.

What you'll do

• Performing statistical analysis and developing forecasting to support and optimize Operations resource capacity.
• Lead the strategy, design, and implementation of predictive models and reporting solutions to meet stakeholder needs across business, technology, Corporate Strategy, and Finance.
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams to understand business needs and translate them into data-driven solutions.
• Leverage programming languages primarily Python to build and deploy statistical models to streamline data processes, and generate actionable insights.
• Provide project management support and drive self-paced development efforts.
• Mentor and provide direction to junior analysts and developers on the team.

What you have

Required Qualifications

• 5+ years of experience focused on statistical analysis, modeling, quantitative analytics or a similar analytics role.
• Strong proficiency in Python, including libraries for data manipulation (e.g., Pandas), scientific computing (e.g., NumPy), and machine learning/forecasting.
• Experience with data visualization tools like Tableau and Power BI.
• Strong Excel and PPT experience, including reviewing, manipulating, and presenting data.
• Highly proficient in statistical modeling, quality assessment, structuring, optimizing, analyzing and interpreting data.
• Exceptional story-telling skills – the ability to package and present analyses effectively, communicating an insight to be understood easily and to drive action.
• Have a keen eye for design.
• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills.
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills.
• Demonstrable ability to interpret business processes and needs and translate them into streamlined reporting, predictive models, and dashboards.
• Effective time management, must be able to prioritize and multi-task effectively.
• Able to describe your own analysis and the insights you draw from it to senior leaders.
• Education: BS/BA degree required.

Preferred Qualifications

• 2+ years of program management experience.
• Application Development Resource Capacity reporting experience.
• Experience developing Microsoft Power Apps to streamline processes.
• Proficient in collaboration tools like Teams, SharePoint, Confluence, Jira, etc.
• Experience in a highly regulated financial services environment.
• Experience with statistical forecasting techniques (e.g., ARIMA, Prophet, time series analysis).
• Experience with SQL for data extraction and manipulation.