Job Location: Plano, TX
Overview
Who we are
An important part of the Toyota family is Toyota Financial Services (TFS), the finance and insurance brand for Toyota and Lexus in North America. While TFS is a separate business entity, it is an essential part of this world-changing company – delivering on Toyota’s vision to move people beyond what’s possible. At TFS, you will help create best-in-class customer experiences in an innovative, collaborative environment.
Who we’re looking for
We’re looking for a self-starting and detail-oriented Senior Risk Analyst – Residual Value Strategy and Analytics to join the Residual Value Risk team; someone who shares our team’s passion for data, creative problem solving, and continuous improvement.
This role is equal parts data wizard and consultant, so you should be as comfortable packaging and presenting your ideas to peers and leadership as you are digging in on large, complex data sets, delivering insightful visualizations, and writing SQL/SAS/Python code.
You will uncover actionable insights through data analysis and help drive data-based decision-making for residual value strategy. This role requires partnerships with multiple areas, including but not limited to: Finance/FP&A, Pricing and Product Planning, Data Science, Sales and Marketing. Responsibilities include extracting and cleaning data from company and 3rd party systems, performing analysis to generate results, interpreting predictive models to extract insights, and presenting findings and recommendations to business partners, leaders and executives across the business.
This role is currently structured to work from home a majority of the time, with occasional in-office workdays as needed (subject to change).
What you’ll be doing
- Lead analyst supporting an executive strategy council tasked with improving resale value of Toyota and Lexus vehicles.
- Leveraging advanced analytics to support the design, implementation and measurement of strategic initiatives for the executive committee as well as to deliver KPI reporting to the same.
- Supporting RV and Risk Department leadership as lead analyst on a steady stream of ad-hoc projects (blue sky strategy, executive requests, etc.).
- Uncover business needs and the true questions that the company is trying to answer in order to properly frame your analysis.
- Use SQL, R and/or Python to get the data needed into the form necessary for your analysis.
- Apply your arsenal of creative problem-solving and quantitative analytical skills, including statistical methods, to connect the dots and find the insight buried in the data.
- Assess the quantitative and qualitative impacts of possible actions based on your insight, taking into consideration our customers, our employees, and our company.
- Recommend actions to management and executives based on your insights by effectively telling the story that is supported by data through presentations (Powerpoint), data visualizations (Tableau, Power BI), and clear and concise verbal and written communications skills.
- Coordinate with various stakeholders to help implement recommended actions.
- Build relationships with key stakeholders across Toyota such as Sales, Marketing, Servicing, Insurance, Technology, Legal/Compliance, Finance, Treasury, Manufacturing, etc.
- Build your analytical, technical, communication, and people skills through offered training and on-the-job experience to prepare for advancement into analytical leadership roles.
- Become lead and subject matter expert for one business areas and their strategies, processes, policies, etc. to have a holistic understanding of the business and how it is reflected in the data we capture.
- Guide, mentor, and train other Analysts on best practices for analysis and data story-telling.
- Organically and proactively find insights through data exploration and business knowledge even without stakeholders explicitly asking for it.
What you bring
- Bachelor’s degree or higher in Statistics, Finance, Accounting, Economics, or similar analytical degree.
- Significant experience with analysis tools (SQL, SAS, Tableau, Python and/or similar) and a high level of proficiency with both Excel and PowerPoint (testing will be conducted).
- Strategic, creative problem-solving abilities with a passion for process improvement and automation.
- Natural curiosity and the resourcefulness needed to learn new concepts, methods, and systems.
- Experience identifying trends and indictors through quantitative/qualitative analysis, managing projects, and making strategic recommendations to management.
- Basic statistics knowledge.
Added bonus if you have
- Advanced Degree: MBA or Master’s degree in an analytical field.
- Auto Finance or Consumer Lending background.
- Exposure and familiarity with topics like risk management, asset valuation, depreciation, interest rates, and macroeconomic trends.
- Intermediate to advanced statistics knowledge.
- Interest in the Toyota and Lexus brands and/or emerging automotive technologies (electric, hydrogen, autonomous driving, etc.).
- Experience delivering executive-level presentations on complex/nuanced topics and conveying technical ideas to non-technical audiences.
- Experience with programming in Python.
What we’ll bring
During your interview process, our team can fill you in on all the details of our industry-leading benefits and career development opportunities. A few highlights include:
- A work environment built on teamwork, flexibility and respect.
- Professional growth and development programs to help advance your career, as well as tuition reimbursement.
- Vehicle purchase & lease programs.
- Comprehensive health care and wellness plans for your entire family.
- Flextime and virtual work options (if applicable).
- Toyota 401(k) Savings Plan featuring a company match, as well as an annual retirement contribution from Toyota regardless of whether you contribute.
- Paid holidays and paid time off.
- Referral services related to prenatal services, adoption, childcare, schools and more.
- Flexible spending accounts.
- Relocation assistance (if applicable).
To save time applying, Toyota does not offer sponsorship of job applicants for employment-based visas or any other work authorization for this position at this time.
Belonging at Toyota
Our success begins and ends with our people. We embrace diverse perspectives and value unique human experiences. Respect for all is our North Star. Toyota is proud to have 10+ different Business Partnering Groups across 100 different North American chapter locations that support team members’ efforts to dream, do and grow without questioning that they belong. As a company that has been one of DiversityInc’s Top 50 Companies for Diversity and a member of The Billion Dollar Roundtable supporting minority and woman-owned suppliers for over 10 years, we are proud to be an equal opportunity employer that celebrates the diversity of the communities where we live and do business.
Applicants for our positions are considered without regard to race, ethnicity, national origin, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, age, disability, religion, military or veteran status, or any other characteristics protected by law.
Have a question or need assistance with your application? Check out the How to Apply section of our careers page on Toyota.com or send an email to talent.acquisition@toyota.com.
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