Data Scientist at Salt South Africa

Your responsibilities will include:

• Supporting the marketing and growth teams’ BI, data and reporting needs
• Building and editing reports in Qlikview, QlikSense & Tableau
• Setting up and maintaining automated operational and financial reports to internal and external stakeholders
• Analysis of customer, digital marketing and product data and providing ad-hoc reports
• Data mining when needed to discover root causes or changes in marketing, customer or growth key performance metrics.
• Facilitating and/or setting up of reports that can be used to report on in various management and business review forums
• Working closely with all of the teams to understand their data and BI needs.
• Facilitating access to the required data and also striving to make access to information as seamless as possible.
• Extracting data currently not available through our standardised BI tools.
• Transforming, cleaning and monitoring accuracy of data (performing regular system audits to ensure complete and accurate reporting of data/metrics).
• Ensuring data is extracted, stored and updated in a cost effective & sustainable way.
• Providing necessary training to team members on the usage of tools/reports
• Analysing data and providing insights in an appropriate and easy to understand manner

Attributes required:

• Solutions-oriented with a can-do attitude and high energy
• Strong analytical and critical thinking skills are imperative
• You have a track record of delivering high-quality work in a fast-paced environment
• Ability to distill the conclusions of findings form large data sets in easy to understand and to the point reports
• Ability and appetite to get involved in multiple projects
• Ability to prioritise and manage multiple stakeholders expectations
• Focused on getting the job done, yet having fun doing so
• Taking ownership and displaying accountability in the work required of you
• There must be a keen interest in e-commerce, and even better the gig economy

Your experience and qualifications:

• You have a degree in the related fields of computer science, engineering, statistics or mathematics.
• You have experience working with big sets of data
• You have worked in the field of BI and data for 1+ years
• Experience drawing raw data and creating dashboards
• You have knowledge of reporting platforms - QlikView, QlikSense, Tableau
• Advanced SQL/Google Big Query
• Python and or R knowledge are certainly an advantage
• A working knowledge of data science tools and methodologies are an advantage
• Previous experience analysing digital marketing and product data (Firebase, Google Analytics, Adwords) an advantage.
• Previous experience analysing customer transaction behaviour an advantage