Senior Analyst - Data Analytics

About our Client

Our client is one of the largest consulting firms with significant growth plans for the India region.They are embarking on the next stage of the development of their Analytics setup based out of Chennai.

- As part of growth of their analytics capability, they are looking for an Senior Analyst - Data Analytics with expertise in data warehousing, mining techniques and analyzing large data sets to be a part of their analytics team based out of Chennai ,supporting global geographies.

Role and Responsibility:

- Reporting into a Director and based out of Chennai,you will be responsible for-

- Working directly with teams in managing and querying large databases and/or building business optimization/scenario planners in Excel VBA/Access

- Setting up and maintaining gigabyte to terabyte size databases containing client data

- Performing data integration, manipulation, and querying for purposes of reporting and more sophisticated analytics

- Playing a significant role in team problem solving

- Provide guidance and leadership to teams on analytics projects.

- Provide data mining and analytical support on client engagements, including conducting analysis, building data intensive models/tools, summarize and interpret results

- Actively participate in building team's strategy on knowledge and capability development. Explore wider horizons both internally and externally to expand the service offerings of the team

Desired Skillset:

- Post-graduate OR Graduate degree from top tier colleges in Computer Applications/Engineering/Mathematics/Operations research (with strong quantitative background).

- 7-8 years experience in working with programming on SQL Reporting Services 2005/2008, PL/SQL (Oracle/MySQL), and T-SQL (MS SQL server) or Excel VBA/ Access

- Previous work experience in building business algorithms/ scenario planners/ solving business problems using optimization techniques is preferred.

- Knowledge of SAS/ SPSS is good to have but not essential.