Job Description
The Business Data Analyst works closely with Business Teams to help decision taking . It is 50% technical and 50% working with different functions and bringing them along on a data journey.
Purpose of the role:
- Ensure the integrity and accuracy of our master data
- Manage requests for information in the form of reports
- Deliver an excellent standard of service to all key internal customers
- Analyse complex data sets, identify trends and opportunities, and offer insights and recommendations to business stakeholders
- Provide data based forecasting and financial insight to enable business decisions.
- Produce presentation materials & forecasts to assist with merchant retention, growth & acquisition
- Ongoing analysis & insight re: impact of marketing activity on boosting active consumer engagement, spend and purchasing behaviours
What you’ll be doing:
- Maintenance, upgrades, and improvements of existing BI reports
- Gather requirements for all new requests, working closely with business stakeholders at all levels of the organisation
- Effective and timely communication of findings and opportunities to the relevant business stakeholder
- Produce presentation materials & forecasts to assist with merchant retention, growth & acquisition
- Design, develop & maintain standard dashboards & reports
- Financial & commercial insight – provide forecasting and insight to enable business areas to make effective business decisions.
- Ongoing analysis & insight re: impact of marketing activity on boosting active consumer engagement, spend and purchasing behaviours
Leveraging a solid background in Statistics, the Data Analyst will formalize Business Issues as Data models and Data Visualization:
- Seasonal adjustment on time series
- Regression models (OLS / Logistic)
- Control Groups definition (sampling)
- Advanced Data management / encoding
You’re a match
Education Requirements:
- Degree level educated or Equivalent technology/data qualifications
Work Experience Requirements:
- Previous experience – 2+ years of experience in a data analyst or financial reporting role.
- Problem-solving attitude – Ability to understand complex situations and to present synthesis
- Customer-focused – Ability to understand internal customers and translate requirements into actionable tasks
- Positive and proactive – Glass half-full attitude, with great initiative, naturally curious and willing to learn
- Business acumen with ability to monetise data to deliver against strategic objectives
Languages: Candidates should be well versed in English written and spoken, able to articulate and challenge is key part of the job profile.
Competencies:
- Excellent numeracy and IT skills (particularly Office 365)
- High level of analytical skills
- Experience with BI & Analytic tools (Tableau, Qlik or Power BI)
- A passion for attention to detail and getting it right first time
- Able to prioritise and deliver to deadlines
- Able to manage multiple queries at one time
- Ability to look beyond the numbers to identify issues, anomalies and understand root cause
- Adaptable to changing priorities and requests
- Existing and demonstrable track record in merchants and/or consumer datasets
- Commercial acumen