The data analyst is responsible for the acquisition, assessment, modelling, enrichment, and preparation of data assets. The activities and data will be for multiple purposes across the organization. The data analyst may work with the data scientists to build the research and analysis to report the results in a business context for senior managers and executives. To be successful a data analyst will work with IT and business subject matter experts.
Responsibilities
- Creates new reports and recommends data products to answer important, new, business questions
- Collaborates with data owners and subject matter experts in order to find and secure access to necessary data
- Locates data sets and prepares data or defines the specifications to prepare data from multiple sources: scripting, database management and queries
- Profiles data and specifies data quality rules to cleanse data
- Understand and reuse descriptive statistical models: e.g., revenue forecasting, customer churn prediction
- Builds reports and present the results translated into the business context
Qualifications/Certifications
- Ability to understand business challenges and translate it to dataset requirements for analysis
- Has strong Business Analysis and problem-solving skills
- Strong presentation and communication skills
- Experience with one or more BI reporting and visualization tools
- Familiarity with basic SQL queries
- Familiarity with basic statistical analyses (descriptive statistics)
- Familiarity with the business concepts and questions motivating the analysis