Flipkart - Lead Business Analyst

Analytics @ Flipkart: Flipkart is India's largest eCommerce company and is defining eCommerce in the country. Flipkart's vision is to make Analytics and Big Data part of its overarching competitive strategy, and push it up to decision makers at every level. This role is in Analytics for Customer Experience team, where you will partner with business heads for Customer experience to create enormous impact through the use of latest analytical tools & techniques. The mission of this team is to build delightful, personalized customer shopping experience and make Flipkart the destination for e-commerce for billions of Indians.

At Flipkart, high focus on impact and ownership allows for freedom to each to experiment and innovate. The ability to see what your contribution does to the business is a rare experience, add to that the fact that the impact of it is felt by your friends and family in India - the experience is extremely gratifying.

What this job entails - 

As a Lead Business Analyst, you are expected to have top-down view of business and relate those needs with strong data backed analyses and models. 

In particular:

- You will enable senior leadership decision - making by streamlining measurement of KPIs & identify key drivers of these KPIs by building causal models.

- You are responsible for defining, developing and communicating key metrics and business trends to leadership teams.

- You execute deep & complex quantitative analyses that translates data into actionable insights.

- You lead and mentor junior Analysts.

Qualifications and experience - 

You must possess - 

- Exceptional written and verbal communication skills.

- Ability to perform gracefully in multitasking project environment with attention to detail.

- Bachelors in Engineering, Computer Science, Math, Statistics, or related discipline from a reputed institute or an MBA from a reputed institute.

- 6+ years of experience in relevant role and 2 years or more in a Lead Analyst role.

- Strong quantitative abilities, distinctive problem-solving and excellent analysis.

- Technical capabilities: Proficient in Statistical Modelling, Hive (mastery in SQL) & Excel power user

- Experience in Tech, Product, Ecommerce, Retail companies preferred.

- Previous experience in managing & mentoring analysts is preferred.