Position: BI & Data Science Analyst

About the role

Data lies at the very heart of everything we do. Our Data Science team plays a key role in leveraging data to ensure the organisation’s collective success. The team acts as compass for guiding tough business decisions and answering difficult questions. 

We're looking for an individual who is passionate about replacing unscientific judgment or decisions with data insight. In general, this role cut across business analytics, statistical modeling, and machine learning.

We're a fast-moving, agile and collaborative environment, so the role also be a good opportunity to work closely with other experienced data professionals, individuals and teams across various functions and departments. The team members you interact with may not always speak 'data' fluently, so you should be able to communicate actionable insights, concepts and trends in a relatable manner.

What will you do?

• Understand business needs and requirements, be curious and ask the important questions.
• Enable effective and strategic decision-making by analysing data from multiple sources and crafting them into practical formats and reports by using business intelligence frameworks, tools and data marts.
• Develop presentations that vividly and clearly communicate your analytical results and actionable insights for a diverse range of audiences.
• Work closely with other relevant internal teams to ensure that information and reports are delivered like clockwork.
• Implement automation of reporting and dashboards; maintain contents and quality of databases.

Minimum qualifications

• Minimum of a Bachelor’s degree, preferably in Mathematics, Statistics, Computer Science or related fields. Masters is an advantage.
• Professional certifications for any business intelligence solution would be an additional advantage.
•  Preferably at least 1 year of experience working in:
• Business users to gather requirements and design solutions; and/or
• Data analysis, excel and PowerPoint; and/or
• Writing scripts for SQL/MySQL manipulation and building reports and dashboards with any business intelligence tool such as Tableau, QlikView, Power BI or equivalent
•  Fresh graduates with relevant degrees and outstanding results will be considered.

Essential skills

• Able to engage with various users to translate business requirements into data requirements.
• Good understanding of dimensional modelling and data warehouse concepts.
• Strong project management, verbal and written communication skills.
• Solid problem-solving skills and creative thinking to identify new solutions.

Personal attributes

• Natural curiosity with a goal / data-driven approach and focus.
• Great communicator, insightful, assertive and independent with a proactive character.
• Able to work independently to multi-task, balance priorities and manage deadlines.
• Comfortable on both business and technical fronts in order to engage with diverse teams.