Job Description
Overview:
A Data Analyst collects data about an organization’s operations to improve its systems and processes. Primary duties include Perform analysis and turn data into information, information into insight and insight into business decisions, conducting full lifecycle analysis to include requirements, activities, and design. Data analysts will develop analysis and reporting capabilities. Monitor performance and quality control plans to identify improvements, researching business data, making recommendations with reports generated using data to the company’s management and analyzing the potential impact of their recommendations.
Responsibilities:
- Interpret data, analyze results using statistical techniques and provide ongoing reports
- Develop and implement databases, data collection systems, data analytics and other strategies that optimize statistical efficiency and quality
- Work with Business team to gather requirements
- Carry out Data profiling to understand the data and find out linkage between each data elements.
- Assist Architecture team to create data model
- Create Source to Target Mapping document, Test case documents
- Work with QA/Development team to explain the requirements and close all the outstanding questions on issues/bug on requirements/Data Model/Mapping
- Acquire data from primary or secondary data sources and maintain databases/data systems
- Identify, analyze, and interpret trends or patterns in complex data sets
- Work with management to prioritize business and information needs
- Carrying out training sessions and workshops to guide relevant teams
- Carrying out periodic quality checks
- Working experience with multiple vendors
Qualifications:
- Bachelor’s degree in computer science or MIS related area required or equivalent experience (industry experience substitutable)
- 2-5 + years of experience of Data/Business Analyst/QA space (Individual Contributor).
- 1+ years of experience in Banking and financial domain
- Experience in loans/credit risk will be a value add
- Proven analytic skills, including mining, evaluation, analysis, and visualization
- Technical writing experience in relevant areas, including queries, reports, and presentations
- Strong advanced SQL or Excel skills with the ability to learn other analytic tools
- Prior experience with database and model design and segmentation techniques
- Data warehouse experience is a MUST.
- Practical experience in statistical analysis using packages including Excel, SPSS, and SAS
- Proven success in a collaborative, team-oriented environment
- Excellent understand of the SDLC process and familiar with the various testing methodologies (e.g.: SCRUM, Kanban, TDD, BDD and Squad Models).
- Excellent verbal and written communication skills
- Must adhere to corporate/team etiquette
- Highly proficient in Publisher, PowerPoint, SharePoint, Visio, Confluence and Azure DevOps
- Working knowledge of best practices in value-driven development (requirements management, prototyping, hypothesis-driven development, usability testing)
- Good communicator with problem solving mindset and focus on process improvement
- Working knowledge of work management and collaboration tools (Azure DevOps and Confluence preferred)
- Strong time management skills and a proven track record of meeting various deadlines
- Strong knowledge of any cloud database such as Snowflake/Redshift, AWS/Azure.
- Takes bottom line responsibilities starting from requirements till delivery.
- Strong executive presentation skills with expertise in PowerPoint and presentation best practices.
- Consistently demonstrates clear and concise written and verbal communication skills
- Good interpersonal skills, ability to interact with Senior Management
- Highly self-motivated with a strong sense of initiative
- Interpersonal and customer service skills are required when meeting with and interviewing potential clients
- Excellent multitasking skills, task management strategies, organizational and analytical abilities.
- Ability to work well in a team environment, meet deadlines, demonstrate good time management, and multi-task in a fast-paced project environment
- Excellent Communication & Presentation Skills.
- Interpersonal Communication/EQ
- Product Management & Business Strategy
- Strategic Thinking & Foresight
- Banking and/or financial services experience desired, but not required
- Detailed-oriented with a proven history as a self-starter who can work independently with minimal supervision
- Outstanding organizational and effective time management skills
- Ability to obtain, analyze and synthesize information from multiple sources
- Excellent problem-solving, analytical, and critical thinking skills