Data Insight Analyst

Data Insight Analyst - contract to £650 per day - Canary Wharf - 3 months initially

As Data Insight Analyst, this role involves working with data to solve a range of problems and answer a range of questions, involving data for the financial Markets.

Specifically we want you to help us;

Translate business needs into technical requirements and implementation
Work with all parts of the proof of concept delivery team to identify analytical requirements and develop approaches for solving these within the proof of concept
Proactively develop new analyses and insights to help us understand what is happening in the UK Credit Card and Crowd funding Market.
Create and interpret data & breaking it down to gain insight to benefit our front line business
Design hypothesis tests, oversee execution, and perform rigorous statistical evaluation of the results to produce actionable insights from our data
Support the key relationships with 3rd party data and analytics software partners, in concert with aligned partner functions.
Generate a passion for data and data visualisation

Skills required

Be experienced in handling large, real-world sources of data
Have hands on practical experience with data mining and analysis
Industry experience & great ETL skills using a variety of languages (eg SQL, R, Python, Scala) and big data tools (eg Hive, Scalding, Pig, Elastic MapReduce)
Be knowledgeable about data visualisation ie be able to use data visualisation tools to represent our data in meaningful ways
Be an advanced user of excel for analytical purposes
Have a highly analytical mind and be able to understand complex data
Possess expert technical and non-technical communications
Be able to continuously adapt to the data needs in a rapidly changing environment. This would include quickly and efficiently integrating new data sources using various methods