Manager, Data Analytics

Take your career to the next level! In the last few years our goal has been expansion, creating growth opportunities for many of our team members. Not only are we serious about growth, but we are also serious about helping our customers during hard financial times.

We take pride in providing solutions and offering a helping hand, not only to our customers but also to the communities we serve. As we continue to expand and grow into a national leader in consumer financing, we invite you to consider joining our team.

If you're passionate about making a meaningful impact in people's lives and bringing a personal touch to finance, we'd love to have you on board!

Role Summary

We are seeking a highly analytical, technically strong individual contributor to operationalize and evangelize our use of the Equifax Ignite platform. This role will serve as the internal subject matter expert on Ignite, translating business needs into actionable data solutions, and enabling data-driven decisioning across the organization.

This is a player-coach style individual contributor role-operating independently while developing deep data and platform expertise and providing guidance, training, and best practices to internal stakeholders.

Key Responsibilities

• Serve as the primary owner and subject matter expert for the Equifax Ignite platform

• Develop a deep understanding of consumer credit bureau data, including tradeline structures and attributes and all other data elements and scores available through Ignite

• Translate business needs into data queries, rules, attributes and actionable insights

• Design and build ad hoc and recurring reports, dashboards, and datasets using Ignite data

• Design and build new data elements to improve underwriting by increasing volume and/or reducing credit losses

• Manipulate and analyze tradeline-level bureau data to support business use cases

• Identify opportunities to automate reporting, workflows, and data processes

• Partner with stakeholders across the business (Risk, Operations, Marketing, etc.) to deliver insights and solutions

• Communicate findings clearly to both technical and non-technical audiences, including occasional executive interaction

• Ensure usage of the Ignite platform aligns with vendor agreements and data governance requirements

• Leverage AI tools/agents to efficiently keep track of macro credit trends and identify new attributes to be used in underwriting

• Act as a knowledge resource, providing training and guidance to others on Ignite capabilities and data usage

Required Qualifications

• 5+ years of experience in data analytics or data science roles

• Advanced proficiency in SQL and/or Python (ability to independently build complex queries and analyses)

• Bachelor's degree in Statistics, Math, Engineering, Computer Science (or similar field)

• Strong experience translating business requirements into data solutions

• Proven ability to work independently in a loosely structured environment

• Strong communication skills with the ability to influence and explain insights to stakeholders

• Experience working with large, complex datasets

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience working with consumer credit bureau data, especially tradeline-level data

• Advanced degree in Statistics, Math, Engineering, Computer Science (or similar field)

• Prior experience with Equifax Ignite or similar credit bureau platforms

• Background in financial services, lending, or consumer finance

• Experience building automated reporting or data pipelines

• Familiarity with BI tools (Tableau, Power BI, etc.)

Success in This Role Looks Like

• Rapid development of deep Ignite platform expertise

• Rapid understanding of RMC's business model and internal data ecosystems

• Delivery of high-quality, actionable reporting and insights to business stakeholders

• Increased automation and efficiency in reporting and data processes

• Improved ability for the business to leverage bureau data for decision-making

• Establishment of best practices and internal knowledge sharing around Ignite usage

Work Environment

• Open to on-site candidates for any of our hubs in Greenville SC, Plano TX, Washington D.C., and NYC.

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