Factspan - Business Analyst

Role Expectations:

- Extensive hands on experience in Excel, VBA, SQL, statistical (R/SAS) & visualization platforms (Spotfire/Tableau/Qlikview etc..)

- Perform analysis on large set of data and use appropriate statistical tools and methodologies to carryout the analysis

- Ability to find interesting/anomalous patterns in large datasets across various platforms and present them in a very intuitive fashion

- Demonstrated experience in using quantitative analyses and data mining to solve structured or unstructured problems and interpreting results

- Root cause analysis/ Deep dive of varied business problems using appropriate ML techniques

- Excellent storyboarding skills and the ability to formulate intuitive hypothesis to identify trends/patterns

- Stay current with customer needs and strategies; utilizing formal and informal written communication methods to communicate updates and findings

- Keep up with cutting edge analytics techniques and tools in the continuously evolving area of decision science

- Effective presentation & storyboarding skills & experience in creating presentations for mid- level/executive clients

Basic qualifications:

- Bachelors/ Master's degree in Management, Math, Engineering, Finance, Statistics, or related discipline.

- 1-3 years of experience in working on reporting / inquisitive / predictive and prescriptive analytics

Preferred qualification:

- Inquisitive mindset, with proven problem solving ability, and a passion for big data

- Ability to quickly adapt to changing priorities and generate innovative solutions in a fast-paced environment

- Demonstrate know-how with various approaches in regression, classification, and cluster analysis

- Knowledge and experience in data visualization/reporting software

- Advanced SQL knowledge

- Strong verbal/written communication & data presentation skills, including an ability to effectively communicate with both business and technical teams

- Experience in using R, Python, SAS or other statistical/machine learning software

Factspan Overview:

Established in 2012, Factspan is a leading pure play analytics company with offices in the US and India. Our ever growing clientele includes Fortune 100 companies in Retail, Financial Services, Insurance and Technology industries.

At Factspan, we're always focused on turning data into results and empowering strategic decision making for the world's best organizations. We use our experiences as management consultants, data scientists and business analysts.to solve problems using diverse lenses. To get there, we need exceptionally talented, bright, and driven people. We are looking for a diverse, creative, multi talented individual who has the drive to change the way decisions are made at the most innovative and valued organizations of the world and is willing to go the extra mile for it.