Data Analytics Associate

R1031032

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**Job Description**:
NEW GROUND WON’T BREAK ITSELF.

Every day our teams help people in businesses and communities to do what is right and achieve their goals.

We’re happy to talk flexible working and consider reduced hours and job shares, we’ll support you to balance your work and life.

Our Transaction Advisory Services (TAS) team within our Deals & Business Consulting practice work with clients evaluating both M&A acquisitions and divestments. Working on both buy-side and sell-side deals for private equity and corporate clients, our TAS team specialises in delivering the financial, tax, commercial and operational due diligence insights to clients across a range of industries in a fast-paced, high intensity and cross-border deals environment.

Our due diligence engagements involve large and complex datasets which form the basis of financial and commercial analysis. The use of data analytics capabilities in cleansing and analysing such datasets increases the efficiency, robustness, and quality of our analysis. In addition, our clients are increasingly requesting that we deploy our data & analytics capabilities on engagements to solve crunchy data problems with a combination of data savvy and commercial nous.

If you enjoy working on a wide-reaching range of projects that will help businesses and communities flourish, you will fit right in. You will join an exciting growing team and have the opportunity to develop your skillset in a dynamic and evolving profession, mastering cutting-edge analytical tools and techniques in a commercial setting.

We are recruiting for new joiners at Associate level, to join our team of Data Analytics specialists.

Overview of the role:
You can expect to spend:

- 40% of time prepping, processing, and analysing large data sets (in the 10’s to 100’s of millions of rows of data)
- 40% of time visualising, explaining, and storyboarding our work into actionable insights for management teams
- 20% of time working on other ad-hoc tasks such as industry research, pitch preparation and tool development

A look into the role

As an Associate you can expect:

- Building Proof of Concept and adhoc visualisations to support pitches
- Tackling large data sets of high: Volume, Velocity, Variety, and varying Veracity
- Employing data skills of blending, joining and unioning data
- Slicing and dicing data with visual, predictive, and spatial techniques to develop commercial insights for clients
- Using best practice visual and guided analytics
- Working both independently and alongside other Data & Analytics professionals in varying team sizes

Working solo and alongside other Data & Analytics professionals in varying team sizes
- We will provide you with thorough on-the-job coaching and support in using Data Analytics tools such as Tableau, Power BI and Alteryx
- You will acknowledge the limitations of your own technical expertise and request support from colleagues within the team where necessary
- You will assist seniors within the team with the delivery of Data Analytics training workshops to the wider TAS team

The minimum criteria

Familiarity with one or more of the typical Data & Analytics tools that the team uses: Tableau, Power BI and Alteryx
- We will provide the necessary on-the-job training in using both Tableau, Power BI and Alteryx on the datasets we work with. We encourage our team to work towards completing both the Alteryx and Tableau professional certifications, if they haven’t done so already, and to demonstrate their competence within the tools where they have.
- Familiarity with similar tools such as Qlik or Google Data Studio instead of Tableau, and KNIME or Google Data Flow instead of Alteryx, will also be considered as there is some cross-over with transferrable skills from similar platforms.

Financial literacy
- Can you interpret and explain a set of key figures from a financial statement? As well as being able to work with large volumes of detailed transactional data from a data cleansing and analysis perspective, it is also key to step back and understand how the detailed analysis builds up into the bigger picture of the business and vice versa. The skill of understanding the aggregation and disaggregation of data is vital in data analytics professionals.

Excellent time management and individual responsibility
- M&A projects commonly have tight timelines and therefore the environment in which we work is often time pressured and fast paced. It is important for our team to be or