Senior Director, Business Analytics

Why GLS?
Purpose: Access to affordable, reliable transportation is essential to leading productive work and personal lives, caring well for oneself, one’s family, and the needs of others. Through advanced analytics and technology, we can more accurately predict credit risk and provide more people with an affordable auto financing option for their next vehicle. That’s what GLS has done for over 10 years, helping more than half a million families meet and improve their transportation needs. 
People: Join a culture of over 1,000 employees who Care Deeply and Think Boldly, driving innovation in an adaptive and positive culture that celebrates successes. We empower and reward individuals and teams who make direct, positive impacts to the business and each other, who take pride in their work and are ever-raising the bar. 
Growth: Recognized by Inc 5000 as one of the fastest-growing private companies in America. Join GLS to grow with us!
Benefits: GLS offers the below great benefits for your amazing work!o   Competitive base pay and performance bonuses, dependent on roleo   Medical, dental, vision, telemedicine, supplemental insurance benefits, long-term and short-term disabilityo   401K with employer match and 100% immediate vestingo   Paid Time Off (PTO) and paid company holidays to help you balance work and personal lifeo   Paid Volunteer Time Off (VTO) Annuallyo   Tuition Reimbursement o   Parental Leave o   Business casual work environment
What does it mean to be a Senior Director, Business Analytics  at GLS?The Senior Director, Business Analytics is responsible for managing and optimizing a line of business by optimizing costs, pricing, credit, and growth strategy to promote profitability of a program. This position is expected to establish goals for the program and work cross- functionally to generate alignment on objectives and achieve the expected outcomes. This role maybe expected to manage more than one product line and segregate duties among direct reports accordingly.

How will you drive value within the organization as a Senior Director, Business Analytics?

• Manage strategic vision for line of business by establishing and acting on goals and initiatives (growth, credit performance, profitability) with very limited direction and guidance from senior management
• Perform high-quality, error-free, impactful analysis in a highly autonomous fashion that leads directly to business impact and improvements
• Create, manage, and document processes that promote a high degree of automation and limits lapses/breakdowns
• Establish and promote growth through stable, cost-effective application channels
• Have ownership of channel credit performance and monitoring
• Establish and maintain relationships with key internal and external stakeholders, vendors, and partners, including management of contracts, channel costs, and external vendors
• Collaborate with additional internal departments to develop the operational underpinnings of the line of business
• Work cross-functionally to fulfill operational requirements of the program
• Create and maintain a credit and decisioning framework appropriate for the line of business
• Generate the appropriate warehouse and reporting foundations to properly monitor the line of business
• Establish mechanisms to communicate program performance to key stakeholders (managers, executives, credit officers)
• Plan and provision resources/requirements for technical implementations to solve program problems and/or promote improvements
• Manage, develop, and mentor junior analysts
• Perform additional assignments and special projects as required by the needs of the company or as directed by management

What should you already know to be successful as a Senior Director, Business Analytics?

• Minimum of bachelor’s degree required
• Minimum of eight (8) years hands-on experience solving credit risk, loan-level pricing, or process design problems in a real-world, consumer finance setting
• Ability to manage external stakeholders before, during, and after project implementations
• Strong knowledge of analytics activities producing forecasts, key insights, dashboards, and reports and tools
• Working knowledge of key initiative shaping, project oversight, prioritization, planning, tracking and delivery
• Demonstrated ability to direct and manage work in an effective manner, but willingness and capability to perform autonomously
• Ability to build business solutions in a white-space environment through keen problem-solving, strong conceptualization, and meaningful collaboration (internally and externally)
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