V2A Consulting is looking for Data Analyst candidates for our growing Analytics practice. Data Analysts are an integral part of our Analytics team. They are responsible for managing our knowledge databases, and for transforming and visualizing data to facilitate and enhance business decision making as part of our engagements with clients. Our Data Analysts usually have a Bachelor’s or Master’s degree plus 0-3 years of work experience.

Key areas of responsibility:

• Conduct data-driven analyses, interpret results and draw conclusions, and perform data visualizations through business intelligence tools
• Manage databases including data extraction (through SQL or Python programming when necessary), data transformations, data integrations, and data pipeline automations. Validate data and identify and resolve data quality issues
• Present results in a simple and comprehensive way to non-technical audience
• Understand technical requirements and be able to communicate with computer scientists, programmers, and technology support
• Support Data Scientists in the process of building and testing machine learning models, particularly during the data preparation phase
• Maintain an industry leading knowledge of the tools, systems, and processes available for best-in-class data wrangling and database management
• Train other teams on analytical tools and techniques

What we are looking for:

Education:

• Bachelor’s or Master's degree in Data Science, Computer Science or Business Analytics
• Bachelor’s or Master's degree in Statistics, Economics or Mathematics
• Bachelor’s or Master's degree in Social Sciences, Psychology or any other Bachelor’s or Master’s degree with strong applied statistics or data management and analysis (e.g. Biosciences)

Qualifications:

• 0-3 years of work experience
• Problem Solver - Capacity to apply knowledge and skills to solve complex problems
• Team Player - Ability to build and manage relationships effectively with technology teams, with programmers, and with client team members and stakeholders in general
• High self-motivation for learning, and setting and achieving challenging goals
• Compelled to excel and succeed in every task at hand
• Thrives in an entrepreneurial, results-oriented environment
• Academic and/or professional experience using a programming language to perform data transformations (e.g. Python, R, SaS, C++)
• Academic and/or professional experience using statistical methods for analysis
• Experience in the use of data transformation and database management tools highly valued (e.g. Microsoft Excel, Power Query, Data Bricks, SAS Enterprise Guide, Visual Basic, SQL Browser, …)
• Experience in the use of business intelligence tools highly valued (e.g. Power Bi, Tableau, Business Objects, Clik Data Analytics, Zoho Analytics, SAS Visual Analytics, …)
• Experience in the use of PowerPoint and Word highly valued
• Fully Bilingual (Spanish and English)