DescriptionThe Data Analyst is adept at working with business and systems partners to turn project requirements into technical specifications to build custom-formatted, fit-for-purpose reports, data sets, data services and data interfaces. The candidate applies a strong knowledge of life-cycle data generation to be able to outline critical information, analyze business procedures, and recommend specific types of data than can be used to improve them.
Primary responsibilities include:
- Using stakeholder knowledge and other available resources to research, to facilitate discovery, and to analyze and evaluate options for data solutions. Provide recommendations to team and project leads.
- Produce consistent, accurate and complete data requirements and definitions for complex projects.
- Develop current state process maps and identify digitization opportunities with data, analytics and Master data management solutions
- Work with business users and others to understand their business functions and processes in order to help them define business intelligence, analytic and reporting requirements. Assist in crafting data and metadata requirements for systems that are complete and unambiguous.
- Use statistical methods to analyze data and generate useful data sets and reports.
- Work with management team and other leads to prioritize needs for business segments.
- Identify and recommend new, innovative ways to streamline data-centric processes.
- Use data to create models that depict trends in the customer base or the consumer population, or within a specified segment or business processing area.
- Work with departmental managers and business stake holders to outline data needs for analytical, reporting and data integration projects.
- Define and manage test data sets for integration testing, problem analysis, business and technical analysis.
Qualifications:
Required Skills/Experience:
- Solid understanding of consumer banking/financial products and business processes
- Experience doing data discovery and analysis work with one or more commonly-used business intelligence tools, such as Tableau, SAS, Oracle, Microsoft, etc.
- Experience working with various operating systems (Windows, Unix/Linux) and database management systems (Redshift, Oracle, MS-SQL, etc).
- Ability to collaborate effectively, take initiative and work as part of a team
- Strong attention to detail
Desirable Skills/Experience:
- Data exploration experience using both SQL and not-only-SQL tools and techniques.
- Data design or data management experience is a plus.
- Experience with Agile process is preferred
- Experience in the financial services industry, especially banking.
Educational, Certifications and/or Other Professional Credentials:
Required:
- Either 7+ years of experience as described above + a Bachelor’s Degree in Business, finance, Mathematics, Statistics or Computer science
- Or 5+ years of experience as described above + a Master’s Degree in those disciplines