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 Statistician will have a graduate or post graduate education and use their statistical analysis knowledge, intuition, and tools to solve business problems. This person will have an entrepreneurial individual with a knack for solving problems to learn the latest statistical techniques and take on increasing levels of responsibility as they grow.

* Individuals will partner cross functionally to deliver statistical solutions * 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

* Master’s degree in Statistics or similar quantitative field of study * Working knowledge of SAS, R or similar statistical programming package * 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