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Data Scientist

At Valley Bank, we believe in people's growth potential. We invest in it. We protect it. We focus it. For nearly 100 years, we've been the bank that clients from every industry turn to for our expertise, strategies, and advice-building the kind of trust that can fuel every goal. We are the leading relationship bank built for growth-with over $60 billion in assets, 3,800 experts, and more than 200 consumer branches and commercial banking offices in communities across the US.

At Valley, we're all driven by an ambition that goes deeper than just having a job. That's why when you work for us, we make it our goal to help you focus on what drives you-working to turn your passions and strengths into assets you can use to propel your ambitions and build the professional legacy you want. Because when we say we're a relationship bank built for growth, that's not just reserved for our clients-that includes all our associates as well.

The Data Scientist is responsible for driving the data roadmap and enabling the bank's strategic objectives with data and deep insights. They will partner closely with business teams to execute on a data/analytics agenda, explain business performance with data, develop hypotheses to drive actions and identify growth opportunities by performing hands-on data engineering, data analysis and visualization of results. The Data Scientist will have strong collaboration and communication skills to effectively partner with other data teams and business partners.

Expected Work Hours: 40

Job Description

Responsibilities include, but are not limited to:

• Interpret business needs and requirements and independently perform analysis and/or build reports and dashboards to meet requirements.
• Translate analysis findings and technical topics, visualize data to explain results to a non-technical business audience and senior management.
• Identify new data capabilities to enable strategic objectives, partner with data enablement team to build solutions.
• Interact independently with business partners on data needs and respond to data requests.
• Perform challenging data queries, reconcile data, analyze results, and form conclusions for senior management.
• Drive a strong data-driven culture within the company by mentoring data analysts and increasing data capabilities in other internal functions.

Requirements

**Required Skills:**

• Hands-on experience in data modelling, data engineering and data analysis tools such as BI tools, Power BI, SQL, Python (pandas, numpy).
• Working knowledge in developing reports and dashboards in Power BI or Tableau.
• Strong communication, organizational and interpersonal skills, as well as the ability to prioritize and execute multiple objectives.
• Ability to identify key insights and present results to a business audience.
• Preferred experience in mapping techniques, such as calculating distances and routes, as well as ability to build custom market and demographic maps.
• Awareness of latest trends in data analytics.
• Knowledge and experience in the banking industry and banking systems.
• Advanced knowledge of data structures and the ability to visualize data effectively to communicate to a business audience.

**Required Experience:**

• Bachelor's degree in a quantitative discipline, such as Business Analytics, Data Science, Mathematics, Econometrics, Engineering, Sciences.
• Minimum of 3 years working in a data analytics role with hands-on experience in wrangling large data sets, conducting data analysis and developing insights from data.
• Experience working independently with business partners and diverse corporate functions.

**Preferred Experience:**

• Master's degree in a quantitative discipline.
• Financial Services experience and knowledge of Retail/Commercial Banking industry, products, and data highly desired.

Full-time/Part-time: Full-time

FLSA: Exempt

Location(s): 70 Speedwell Ave, Morristown, New Jersey 07960, United States

Total Rewards Summary: We provide a comprehensive and competitive total rewards package including base salary determined by factors such as the role, relevant experience, skill set, and geographical location. Eligible positions may also be eligible to receive commission-based compensation and/or discretionary incentive compensation, which may be awarded as cash or forfeitable equity, recognizing individual performance and contributions. In addition to financial compensation, we offer a robust suite of benefits tailored to meet diverse employee needs based on eligibility criteria. These include comprehensive health care and insurance plans, retirement savings options, tuition and adoption reimbursement programs, paid time off, mental health support, and other valuable benefits programs. Further details regarding total compensation and benefits will be shared during the hiring process.

Pay Range: The estimated pay range for this job. Disclosing pay information promotes competitive and equitable pay. The actual pay rate will depend on the person's qualifications and experience. $83,100.00 - $143,500.00 / year

Pay Transparency: In order to support the Fair Compensation Strategy by the US Govt., HR Dept., clients are required to adhere to "Pay Transparency Law"; in the impacted states; that have mandated the employers to list the salary ranges in Job advertisements or postings for job opportunities and Job promotions.

Valley National Bank is an Equal Opportunity / Affirmative Action Employer. All qualified applicants are encouraged to apply, and will be considered without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, protected veteran status, or other legally protected characteristics, and will not be discriminated against on the basis of disability.

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