Data Analyst

About the Role

A professional services firm seeks a Data Analyst to enhance business decision-making by leveraging data-driven insights, detailed reporting, and process optimisations. Ideal candidates will have backgrounds in data analytics, consulting, advisory, or commercial analysis and will collaborate with various stakeholders to translate business challenges into analytic strategies and actionable recommendations.

Key Responsibilities

• Analyse business and operational datasets to discover patterns, identify risks, opportunities, and issues, and generate actionable insights.
• Create and maintain dashboards, reports, and visualisation tools that support monitoring of performance for leadership and business units.
• Gather, validate, cleanse, and organise data from multiple sources to enhance data quality, accuracy, and usability.
• Assist with ad hoc analyses involving strategic initiatives, business planning, client engagements, and refining processes.
• Deliver findings and strategic suggestions clearly and concisely to both technical and non-technical stakeholders.
• Enhance data governance, improve reporting workflows, and promote best analytical practices across the organisation.

Candidate Requirements

• A bachelor's degree in Data Analytics, Statistics, Mathematics, Economics, Computer Science, Information Systems, or a closely related field.
• Between two to five years of relevant experience in data analytics, business intelligence, consulting, advisory, or similar analytical roles.
• Experience within professional services, consultancy, financial services, or corporate sectors is advantageous, with a particular welcome for candidates from consulting backgrounds.
• Proficiency in SQL and Excel is essential, while familiarity with Python or R programming languages is considered a plus.