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Hi, I am Luciana

Luciana Figueroa

Senior Adquisition Strategy Analyst at Scotiabank Perú

BSc with Major in Statistics. I have more than two years of experience in analytical roles in the Finance Industry. I’m always interested in learning new subjects, especially those related to Business Analytics. I’m proactive, analytical driven, well organized, with excellent communication, leadership and teamwork skills.

Skills

Experiences

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Senior Adquisition Strategy Analyst
Scotiabank Peru

Feb 2019 - Present, Lima, Peru

Responsibilities:
  • Implementation of predictive and descriptive models.
  • Design and deployement of sales monitoring dashboards.
  • Portfolio Analysis during COVID-19 pandemic.
  • Large database management.

Economic Research Intern
Central Reserve Bank of Peru

Jan 2018 - Dec 2018, Lima, Peru

Responsibilities:
  • Text Mining Analysis for inflation forecast.
  • Visualization design for dollarization monitoring of the real state market in Peru.
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Risk Management Intern
Banco de Crédito del Perú

Feb 2017 - Aug 2017, Lima, Peru

Responsibilities:
  • Quality assurance of the information actives in the corporate database.
  • Validate the implementation process of analytical solutions and reporting of the result.

Education

Specialization in Data Science for Social Sciences and Public Management
B.Sc. in Statistics
Taken Courses
  • Multivariate Analysis
  • Inferential Statistics
  • Data Mining
Extracurricular Activities
  • Teacher Asistant in weekly lectured complementary classes to undergrad students.

Accomplishments

Graduated with Diploma of Merit

Awarded Diploma for graduating first in class in my undergrad studies.

Speaker RXXXVI Encuentro de Economistas del BCRP

Annual conference held by the Central Reserve Bank of Peru, where economic related studies are shown. It was shown how the language that the Central Bank uses for their press communication has an impact on different macroeconomic variables. For this study Topic Modeling techniques were used.

Speaker at the Royal Statistical Society Conference

Presented my BSc thesis in a poster format titled “Newspaper Analytics and the Dynamics of the Exchange Rate in Peru”. This research was done during my time as an intern at the Central Bank.

3rd Place at DataFest

Contest held by BCP (Banco de Crédito del Perú) and ESAN (Escuela Superior de Administración y Negocios) where each team had to use a real database set that held information about small and medium Peruvian companies with the objetive of creating a model to predict the annual income of them, alongside of a business strategy using the information obtained to maximize the banks share of wallet.