Data Analyst

Data Analyst

Job Description

The Data Analyst will be highly skilled in all aspects of data analytics, including mining, generation, and visualization. Additionally, this individual should be committed to transforming data into readable, goal-oriented reports that drive innovation and growth, and acting as a liaison to internal and external teams requiring data support.

Duties & Responsibilities

• Develop, implement, and maintain leading-edge analytics systems, taking complicated problems and building simple frameworks
• Identify trends and opportunities for growth through analysis of complex datasets
• Evaluate organizational methods and provide source-to-target mappings and information-model specification documents for datasets
• Create best-practice reports based on data mining, analysis, and visualization
• Evaluate internal systems for efficiency, problems, and inaccuracies, and develop and maintain protocols for handling, processing, and cleaning data
• Work directly with managers and users to gather requirements, provide status updates, and build relationships
• Work closely with project managers to understand and maintain focus on their analytics needs, including critical metrics and KPIs, and deliver actionable insights to relevant decision-makers
• Proactively analyze data to answer key questions for stakeholders or yourself, with an eye on what drives business performance, and investigate and communicate which areas need improvement in efficiency and productivity
• Create and maintain rich interactive visualizations through data interpretation and analysis, with reporting components from multiple data sources
• Define and implement data acquisition and integration logic, selecting an appropriate combination of methods and tools within the defined technology stack to ensure optimal scalability and performance of the solution
• Develop and maintain databases by acquiring data from primary and secondary sources, and build scripts that will make our data evaluation process more flexible or scalable across datasets

Knowledge, Skills & Abilities

• Excellent verbal and written communication skills.
• Organizational skills and attention to detail.
• Ability to work independently
• Proven analytical skills, including mining, evaluation, and visualization
• Technical writing skills in relevant areas, including queries, reports, and presentations
• Understanding of marketing analytics and media performance evaluation models
• Strong SQL or Excel skills, with aptitude for learning other analytics tools
• Strong programming experience with frameworks, including XML, JavaScript, and ETL
• Ability to conduct statistical analysis through the use of statistical packages, including Excel, SPSS, and SAS

Education & Experience

• Bachelor’s degree in mathematics, computer science, economics, statistics, or a related field
• 10 years of experience mining data as a data analyst