Data Analyst

Responsibilities

• Service Delivery
• Make sure all stages of the models run in accordance with the production schedule, following standard operating procedures to ensure deadlines are met.
• Understand the modelling and validation principles and how they have been applied to the assigned territory.
• Support new analysts on methodology, problem solving and technical queries.
• Troubleshoot issues that arise on day-to-day tasks.
• Demonstrate commercial awareness & understanding of NIQ’s on-premise clients and product portfolio.
• Under the guidance of senior leadership, contribute to projects, working to pre-agreed project plans.
• Validate model outputs against available data sources and contribute to validation meetings with key stakeholders.
• Keep data integrity rules clear on a consistent basis.
• Ensure model outputs remain within defined tolerances and accurately represent market dynamics.
• Serve as the data expert for the assigned sector/product.
• Demonstrate critical thinking in actioning feedback, provide data driven recommendations for trend alignment.
• Prepare reports to reconcile outputs against external sources.
• Support team members to ensure all sectors for the assigned service are uploaded on time.
• QC the external data sources feeding models.
• Investigations and Problem Solving
• Use available tools and data sources to investigate client queries in accordance with our investigation protocol.
• Implement data restatements, delivering acceptable outputs, explanations, and recommendations to commercial teams.
• Investigate anomalies during data production process, troubleshooting technical failures in collaboration with other departments.
• Perform root cause analysis on errors that lead to restatements.
• Stakeholder Management
• Own key stakeholder communications for the assigned sector.
• Manage stakeholders effectively, providing regular progress updates and seek expertise where necessary from SMEs across the business.
• Respond to queries promptly and efficiently.
• Process Audit and Improvement
• Build reports and validation sheets.
• Audit existing validation processes, providing recommendations on enhancements and potential fixes.
• Implement improvements/rebuilds of processes under the supervision of senior leadership.
• Update and create standard operating procedures as appropriate and submit to management for final approval.

Qualifications

• Degree qualified, ideally with some analytical or data modelling component.
• Highly numerate and comfortable manipulating data.
• Working knowledge of relational databases (desired but not essential).
• Experience of extracting insights from large datasets and building reports.

Additional Information

• Flexible working environment.
• Volunteer time off.

Equal Employment Opportunity

At NIQ, we are steadfast in our commitment to fostering an inclusive workplace that mirrors the rich diversity of the communities and markets we serve. We believe that embracing a wide range of perspectives drives innovation and excellence. All employment decisions at NIQ are made without regard to race, color, religion, sex (including pregnancy, sexual orientation, or gender identity), national origin, age, disability, genetic information, marital status, veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by applicable laws.