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, perform ad-hoc analysis, 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
- 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
- Intellectual curiosity and willingness to quickly learn relevant database applications and software, as well as industry-specific terminology and dynamics
- Ability to quickly understand business problems and how they may be solved
- Experienced in working in both Microsoft Excel and PowerPoint
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 to drive margin, analyze market performance, identify industry trends, segment customers, perform ad-hoc analysis, and create standardized reporting in support of the operations.
- 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
- Must possess very strong interpersonal, communication and consensus building skills; willing to work on developing and managing key relationships across the organization.
