Junior Data Analyst

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Job description

Exciting Junior Data Analyst role in a rapidly growing insurance company.

Your new company

Our client is a platform helping insurance teams to grow. They provide a wrap-around set of support functions and delivers best in class service across executive management, consultancy, finance, compliance and IT.

Your new role

Alongside the Group Information Manager, you will maintain and optimise the business as usual reporting suite to continue our mission of making stakeholders' information easily available.

At the same time, as all areas of the business are growing in multiple directions, new products, reports and tools are needed. You will be key player in analysing and developing the solutions with various members of other teams.

This role will involve:

* Developing an expert understanding of how our data is structured, how we capture and present our data and what insights can be derived from it;
* Learning about the businesses we support to assist and improve upon the reporting and data collection tools already in place;
* Building out the tools and dashboards to deliver data for all teams across the company.
* Staying up to date with the latest analytics and data tools and techniques, and identify how they can be utilised throughout the company.
* Championing the effective and appropriate use of all of our IT business tools and where necessary liaising with our third party IT helpdesk to resolve issues across the company.

What you'll need to succeed

* Highly numerate with strong analytical skills
* Excellent problem solving skills with a logical approach
* A desire to understand complex relational databases ideally in a financial\/transactional context
* An interest in coding in SQL or other languages to extract the insight from the database through writing complex queries using a wide variety of data.
* Experience preparing, consolidating and normalising data: ETL processes
* Experience \/ knowledge of data visualisation and dashboard tools e.g. Qlikview, Tableau or Microsoft Power BI would be beneficial
* Comfortable working and communicating with all levels and types of user
* Motivated and keen to grow with the business and to learn
* Degree educated (2.1 minimum)

What you'll get in return

* Pine Walk is committed to the ongoing development of all team members and will consider all training opportunities where a business case exists.
o Study scheme in place for formal qualifications
o On the job training with experienced IT and business managers as well as formal presentations from Pine Walk's parent company, Fidelis.
o Online training (Pluralsight) available
o Courses and conferences considered as appropriate
* The role itself would develop into a business\/commercial analyst and ultimately management of an operational team but the right candidate would be given time to attain the appropriate skills.

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