Business Analyst - Startup - IIT/BITS/NSIT/DTU

Business Analyst (IIT/BITS/NSIT/DTU)

About our Client :

Our client is one of the leading startups with extensive operations in India and overseas. Its network currently spans over 200 Indian cities including all major metros and regional commercial hubs. International presence includes operations in South East Asia, Middle East and recently ventured into Europe. The startup is backed by world's leading investors including the Softbank Group. The company has close to 5000 employees.

Job Description : 

1. Produce regular reports and analysis, write systems queries to gather data, perform data-mining and analysis using tools including MS Excel, MySQL, SQL, Oracle BI and Cognos to identify trends and develop forecasts, as well as identify opportunities for cost savings and quality improvements

2. Own, develop and maintain metrics allowing more granular explanations of Weekly/Monthly/Quarterly Business report trends and driving the prioritization of Quality/Cost Improvements projects

3. Provide analysis support on Project, New Initiatives and Strategic Decisions Collaborate with business, product and technology teams to implement projects

4. Deep dive and acquire an extensive knowledge of emerging industry practices and apply when solving business problems Participate in industry and other professional networks to ensure awareness of industry standards, trends and best practice in order to strengthen organizational and technical knowledge

5. Be a part of the core team that designs algorithms for new IP products and services

6. Develop new technological ways for solving high end problems with data science, analytics and visualization

7. Design experiments, test hypotheses, build models, drive control groups and scale what works

8. Work with various stakeholders to identify the business requirements, define working methodologies and the expected outcome

9. Track project issues, concerns, deliverable's, and acceptance criteria Work with the Finance and Operation Management to forecast and develop operational targets.

Skills Required: 

1. Working knowledge of a query language SQL/MySQL/T-SQL is a must

2. Experience with programming languages like Java/Python/C is a must

3. Knowledge of statistical analysis tools like SAS/R is strongly desired

4. Knowledge of any scripting language is strong advantage

5. Proficiency with presentations and MS Office is good to have

Preferred Person: 

- First principal problem solving, analytical skills, data-driven focused decision making, excellent project management skills

- Ensure projects/tasks are delivered with utmost quality along with agreed objectives and within the given timeline - Very High Execution Focus

- Recommend ongoing improvements to methods, algorithms, tools and product