Senior Statistician

American Credit Acceptance is a sub-prime auto finance company providing financial solutions from coast-to-coast. We start with a common sense lending approach for our dealer partners and end with an affordable payment program for our customers. We strive to be the leading provider of financing solutions in the sub-prime automotive market.

The Senior Statistician will have either a graduate or post-graduate level education and will use statistical analysis and intuition to solve business problems. This individual will have an entrepreneurial spirit with a knack for solving problems to learn the latest statistical techniques and take on increasing levels of responsibility as they grow.

Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions. * Collaborating with others to understand the business problem * Collecting, retrieving and understanding data * Analyzing data, building models and assessing their quality * Designing experiments and assessing their results * Monitoring model performance and making recommendations * Communicating results and recommendations to senior management * Identifying opportunities to apply statistics to improve business performance **Supervisory Responsibility** This position has no supervisory responsibilities. **Work Environment and Physical Demands** This job operates in a professional office environment. This role routinely uses standard office equipment such as computers, phones, photocopiers, filing cabinets and fax machines.

* Experience with logistic regression, decision trees, survival analysis, design of experiment and other statistical techniques * Communicating clearly and concisely to individuals from various backgrounds * Influencing others in both verbal and written mediums * Entrepreneurial spirit * Hunger to learn and grow * Master’s degree in Statistics or similar quantitative field of study * Working knowledge of SAS, R or similar statistical programming package **Preferred:** * Experience with relational databases * Strong R programming skills * 1-2 years’ experience in statistical modeling * PhD in Statistics or similar degree