Company: EY ifb
Company background: EY ifb offers an array of full-service solutions to help banks and insurance companies in their finance, risk and digital transformation. We map the multi-layered demands of supervision, management, accounting and risk and embed them in advanced IT architectures (https://www.ey.com/en_gl/ey-ifb).
Contact: Markus Weick
Title: Manager
Country: Germany
Award Category: SAS Analytics Explorers Advocate
How has SAS Analytics Explorers benefited your career?
SAS Analytics Explorers is the starting point of my daily SAS activities. It provides me with wider SAS Knowledge and with the resources (points) for certifications. This led me to the SAS Certified Professional: AI & Machine Learning certification. Together with activities in the SAS support communities I can grow contacts with other SAS users which have already lead to approaches for common work.
Secondary effects of the SAS Analytics Explorers offers are the showcasing of SAS competencies via certifications, SAS professional directory entries, SAS communities profile, Credly and LinkedIn, which helped me in getting project assignments externally as well a internally. For example I was assigned the task of supporting our new joiners in learning SAS.
What is your favorite challenge you've completed in the program?
There are quite a few candidates for the favorite role. Since I joined in November ’21 I participated in nearly all of the challenges and a few weeks ago I made it into the top ten of the EMEA Leaderboard.
I especially like the whole Education category. If I have to select a single one as favorite, it’s the „Become an Analytics Thought Leader“ series, which prepared the article by Jack Phillips, Jason Larson (https://iianalytics.com/community/blog/six-must-have-mindsets-to-be-a-world-class-data-and-analytics-leader ). It‘s setting the SAS offers into a wider context.
How have you shared the program with other users at your organization?
I use several ways to share the program with others, not only at my organization. I love to wear my SAS Analytics Explorers hoodie in SAS related MS Teams meetings. It sometimes leads to explaining about SAS Analytics Explorers.
Another way is the introductory SAS training for our new joiners, where I present SAS Analytics Explorers within the SAS context. I also use the hashtag #SASAnalyticsExplorers when sharing SAS posts in the social networks. Furthermore I am talking to SAS users outside my organization, clients for example, who I have referred successfully to the SAS Analytics Explorers program.
What is your favorite reward you've earned?
Although I have collected three of the Fingerprint USB Pen Drives for my team colleagues, my favorite earned awards are the vouchers for courses and exams. They allow me to implement my lifelong learning according to my personal preferences. (And I really love my SAS hoodie, but I have got it through other channels 😊.)
