Job description
Responsibilities:
- Providing Analytical & Decision Support across GS through advanced analytics (from sourcing to staging data, generating insights to exposing them for consumption via reporting platforms/strategy implementation)
- Enabling business user self-service through creation of MIS capabilities
- Systematically identify out of pattern activities in a timely manner and address information gaps by providing insightful analytics
- Working independently assuming responsibility for the development, validation and implementation of projects
- Participate on global teams evaluating processes and making suggestions for process and system improvements
- Interacting with all levels of the organization across multiple time zones.
Critical Factors to Success:
- Ensure timely and accurate MIS based on customer requirements
- Centrally manage MIS and key operational metrics and address functional data needs across operations and support teams
- Provide analytical and decision support framework and address information gaps through insightful analytics and developing lead indicators
- Build collaborative relationships across GS groups and participate on global teams evaluating processes and making suggestions for process and system improvements
- Put enterprise thinking first, connect the roles agenda to enterprise priorities and balance the needs of customers, partners, colleagues & shareholders
Past Experience:
- Preferably a minimum 2 years experience with at least 1 year in Quantitative Business Analysis/Data Science with experience in handling large data sets
Academic Background:
- Bachelor's Degree or equivalent, preferably in a quantitative field
- Post-graduate degree in a quantitative field will be an added advantage
Functional Skills/Capabilities:
- Must possess strong quantitative and analytical skills and be a conceptual and innovative thinker
- Project management skills and ability to identify and translate business information needs into insights and information cubes for ease of consumption in reporting and analytics
- Proven thought leadership, strong communication, relationship management skills
- Ability to work on multiple projects simultaneously, flexibility and adaptability to work within tight deadlines and changing priorities
- Data presentation & visualization skills
Technical Skills/Capabilities:
- Excellent programming skills on Hive/SQL/Big Query is essential with good understanding of Big Data ecosystems
- Exposure to visualization using Business Intelligence software like Tableau or Qlikview will be an added advantage
Knowledge of Platforms:
- Advanced knowledge of Microsoft Excel and PowerPoint, Word, Access and Project
