Caesars is striving to become the largest in-play sports betting platform across America and needs to drive margin, analyze market performance, identify industry trends, segment customers, and create standardized reporting to support operations and grow business units.
Requirements
- Strong analytical skills including, but not exclusive to, data aggregation/manipulation, financial modeling, statistical analytics, forecasting, optimization, etc.
- Experience working with large datasets; proficiency with Microsoft Office suite and proven experience manipulating data, developing insights, and communicating findings
- Intellectual curiosity and willingness to quickly learn relevant database applications and software, as well as industry-specific terminology and dynamics
- Proficiency in one or more of the following programming languages: SQL, R, VBA, SAS, Python
- Experience with web-based data visualization tools, such as Tableau, Looker, or Power BI
- Ability to quickly understand business problems and how they may be solved
Responsibilities
- Conduct objective, rigorous analytics to help the business improve profitability, operational processes, and offering with minimal guidance from management – e.g., identification and evaluation of trading opportunities, resource optimization, competitive market dynamics, customer behavior, and pricing optimization
- Prepare standardized reporting on various operations to provide senior leaders visibility into performance trends
- Conduct ad-hoc analyses including, but not limited to, competition, event market performance, competitive intelligence, financial modeling, forecasting & statistical analysis, database development, budgeting, etc.
- Synthesize large amounts of data into actionable recommendations and presentations for management review
- Source interesting data (query 1st party data, purchase licensed data and/or scrape public sources)
- Engineer features through creative variable transformation techniques
- Use technology (e.g., SQL, R, Tableau, Google BigQuery, Python) to develop analytics and reporting tools; take an active role in integrating new technologies and tools into the department’s processes.
Other
- Partner with stakeholders within the Trading organization
- Collaborate with fellow analysts to refine assumptions, ensure accuracy of results, and create holistic view of performance
- Communicate analyses, findings, conclusions, and recommendations to all relevant business partners, and actively assist in the implementation of accepted recommendations
- Participate actively in discussions with senior clients, and assist in driving the development, implementation, and evaluation of strategic projects from within all segments of the Trading organization
- Strong communication skills, including capacity to distill complex ideas and analyses into clear and tangible recommendations that drive decision making
