Data Analyst - Consulting Firm

Primary Responsibilities:

- Carry out work to an agreed plan, producing deliverables in an agreed timescale.

- Ability to understand and carry out mathematical analysis as per the requirements of the project.

- Ability to understand calculations based documents and respond to straightforward technical queries.

- Develop new (or update) spreadsheets to implement calculation method related to a requirement, which will act as a tool to generate the expected results for functional testing. Spreadsheets may include VBA coding

- Draft and maintain up-to-date, appropriate documentation and checklists for any processes that are implemented.

- Work in a structured and logical way with a lot of focus high degree of accuracy

- Liaise with development, business and systems support teams

- Ability to identify and understand business issues, and understand the impact on the business of proposed solutions

Secondary Responsibilities:

- Maintain an - audit trail- and version control to demonstrate the adequacy of the spreadsheet controls for future enhancements to the product.

- Ability to audit, identify and discuss defects, record them and subsequent fixes

- Seek and act on opportunities to develop technical and business understanding.

Key Interfaces

Internal External

Competence / Knowledge / Skills required

Qualification

- M.Sc. / B.Sc. in Statistics / Mathematics

- M.A. / B.A. in Economics

- M.Com. / B.Com.

Experience: 2-3 years of relevant experience in numerical analysis field

Mandatory Knowledge

- IT literacy, including Microsoft Outlook, Microsoft Office

- Experience and knowledge of either one of the tools and techniques used e.g.: Visual Basic, SQL, and Access.

- Report writing and documentation.

- Ability to interpret simple actuarial formulae.

Knowledge (good to have)

- Awareness of the Financial Services Industry and regulatory environment, and a reasonable knowledge of insurance products

- Understanding and knowledge of actuarial procedures

- Good knowledge of the Insurance business with the ability to understand Actuarial terms and perform calculations.

Skills

- Strong written and verbal communication skills with ability to influence, persuade, negotiate and challenge

- Resourceful in finding solutions and identifying sources of help and information

- Good planning and problem-solving skills

- Able to make quick independent decisions based on logical thought processes

- Thorough and methodical approach to work

- Strong team player, with ability to work in a team or on a project to support business requirements

- Good level of interpersonal and networking skills, to develop effective working relationships with team colleagues and internal/external business contacts.

- Flexible approach to responsibilities, working hours. Should not have dependencies on the type of project or location in the business.