Payments - Data Scientist Associate

**JOB DESCRIPTION** Short Description**:
Join us in defining and executing a multi-year global analytics strategy and roadmap in response to product innovation for Merchant Services. Our impactful data products and solutions reach thousands of clients globally, affecting how we conduct business, moving trillions of dollars a day. Tangible outputs include payments insights that drive optimization of authorization, chargeback, and cost of payments for large merchants alongside profound customer and business insights. As analytics mature, these insights can be transformed into merchant products - “insights as a service”.

**Posting Description**:
**Job responsibilities**:

- Develop analytic projects and recommend solutions by understanding business objectives and developing robust analyses to support project goals.
- Contribute creative solutions to the firm’s biggest problems: where could our existing solutions do better?
- Develop queries, tables, and visualizations to craft actionable customer insights that support merchant growth agendas as an individual contributor.
- Create actionable recommendations to merchants on how to optimize their marketing strategy.
- Collaborate with data owners, department managers and other stakeholders to contribute to the development of data models and stored procedures for future analytics and platforms.
- Adhere to change control and testing processes for modifications to code and products.

**Required qualifications, capabilities, and skills**:

- Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in engineering, computer science, statistics, mathematics or similar technical or quantitative field with 3+ years of relevant work experience.
- Experience in the payments industry and/or technology-enabled industries is desirable.
- Demonstrate hands-on experience in writing complex SQL queries, with knowledge of assessing and sourcing data, optimizing data structures, and managing database query performance.
- Expertise in quantitative research techniques and analytics using Python.
- Proven strategic thinking and creative problem-solving skills with ability to translate strategy into deliverables.
- Demonstrate strong written and oral communication skills to clearly present analytical findings and make business recommendations and prepare executive level communications.
- Proven ability to collaborate effectively and cultivate strong partnerships.

**Preferred qualifications, capabilities, and skills**:

- Ability to perform rapid prototyping in Tableau.
- Familiarity with Snowflake stored procedures and foundational understanding of cloud services.
- Attention to detail with a proven ability to learn new concepts and skills quickly.
- Ability to clearly develop and document analytic requirements with stakeholders.

**ABOUT US**

JPMorgan Chase & Co., one of the oldest financial institutions, offers innovative financial solutions to millions of consumers, small businesses and many of the world’s most prominent corporate, institutional and government clients under the J.P. Morgan and Chase brands. Our history spans over 200 years and today we are a leader in investment banking, consumer and small business banking, commercial banking, financial transaction processing and asset management.

We recognize that our people are our strength and the diverse talents they bring to our global workforce are directly linked to our success. We are an equal opportunity employer and place a high value on diversity and inclusion at our company. We do not discriminate on the basis of any protected attribute, including race, religion, color, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity, gender expression, age, marital or veteran status, pregnancy or disability, or any other basis protected under applicable law. We also make reasonable accommodations for applicants’ and employees’ religious practices and beliefs, as well as mental health or physical disability needs. Visit our FAQs for more information about requesting an accommodation.

**ABOUT THE TEAM**

The Corporate & Investment Bank is a global leader across investment banking, wholesale payments, markets and securities services. The world’s most important corporations, governments and institutions entrust us with their business in more than 100 countries. We provide strategic advice, raise capital, manage risk and extend liquidity in markets around the world.