Data Analyst

Recruiter:

Progressive Edge

Job Ref:

DA005A

Date posted:

Wednesday, September 28, 2022

Location:

CapeTown, South Africa

Salary:

Market related

SUMMARY:
Data Analyst | Cape Town / Hybrid

JOB DESCRIPTION:

Data Analyst

Cape Town / Hybrid

We have a new opening for a Data Analyst (mid level) to join our team and focus on Insights & Data monetization for a retail business. Our Agile way of working allows for flexibility to grasp new opportunities and quickly transform them into insights that will have a direct impact on strategic initiatives.

Your team harnesses big data, technology and advanced analytics to derive revenue from customer insights. It is made up of three squads: Customer Ranging, Pricing & Promotions and Supplier Insights. Some highlights of the Tribe duties include developing customer centric analytics products and insights, building recommendation models to ensure we have the correct product offering, evaluating the end-to-end effectiveness of promotions to reduce sales dilutive promotions and identifying key value items driving brand price perception to maintain price leadership.

As a data analyst, you must be curious, enjoy digging into data to unearth insights and be passionate about the value this can add. You need to be willing to step outside of your written role to take on new responsibilities and be able to tech yourself new techniques and skills. This is an exciting opportunity and will be a journey with the close and collaborative Insights & Data Monetization Tribe to develop your technical skills and grow into an advanced analytics role.

Roles & Responsibilities:

Build, update & maintain use case-driven Tableau dashboards to answer business questions
Interacting with stakeholders to determine requirements, value & how reports will be used
Value measurements of products (pieces of work delivered to business)
Transforming data science outputs into consumable business output
Reworking data and performing data cleansing ensuring integrity and usability
Working with stakeholders to run with insight opportunities
Presenting methodologies to business partners for sign off
Transforming data into a story and presenting findings to business partners
Query large data sets and develop data tables
Use Alteryx & VBA (or similar tools) to provide insights (rework data, and build logic recommendation models etc.)
Capacity to foster a healthy, stimulating work environment that frequently harnesses teamwork
Compliance with prevailing ethical standards

Qualifications:

A degree in a numerate discipline, preferably Statistics / Mathematics / Operations Research
2 years experience in a data driven role
Understanding of SQL & databases
Ability to relay insights in plain language, such that these can be used to inform business decisions.
Demonstrable history of teaching yourself new techniques & skill
Demonstrable history of devising and overseeing data-centred projects

Knowledge & Skills:

SQL (essential)
Presentations & engaging with stakeholders (essential)
Project & time management (essential)
Advanced Excel (essential) & VBA (advantageous)
Tableau (advantageous)
Alteryx / Knime (advantageous)
Cloud Platform / AWS EMR (advantageous)
AWS Athena or Zeppelin/Jupyter notebooks (advantageous)

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