Data Analyst Strategy & Analytics

Cartesian - Boston, MA

Full-time - Entry Level

Boston, MA

Professional, Scientific, and Technical Services

About the position

The Data Analyst position within Cartesian's Strategy & Analytics practice involves working on project teams to develop and manage complex data processes that deliver actionable analytics and reporting for clients. The role emphasizes a data-driven approach to solving business challenges, utilizing various technologies to analyze data, automate workflows, and build predictive models in a collaborative and dynamic environment.

Responsibilities

• Contribute to the development, execution, and management of multi-year analytics focused consulting engagements by developing and managing critical ETL, analytics, and reporting processes.
• Gather and process structured and unstructured data in a wide variety of formats (Excel, text, csv, database etc.) from multiple sources to support the delivery of comprehensive and accurate information to our clients.
• Build thoughtful quality control processes to ensure data integrity from load stages through the end-to-end data integration and dashboard/reporting development processes.
• Proactively resolve data exceptions through investigative analysis and by collaborating with our technical team to explore and creatively resolve technical challenges or issues.
• Develop, maintain, and update analytics frameworks, reports, and web-based dashboards to meet client needs, including the development of actionable KPIs and summary metrics to be reported.
• Create thoughtful data visualizations that communicate insights to both technical and non-technical stakeholders.
• Build and maintain predictive analytics and machine learning models that provide actionable insight to our clients.
• Provide analysis to support client requests, including providing data summaries, conducting statistical analysis, and synthesizing findings to build a fact base and tell compelling stories.

Requirements

• A passion for problem solving, with a focus on creative solutions to meeting client needs.
• Strong organizational and communication skills, with an ability to clearly articulate actions and plans to the internal team and client stakeholders, and to maintain clear documentation of key data processes.
• Experience developing ETL processes, and visualizing data to generate clear executive-level reports and/or dashboards from underlying data sources.
• Effective time management, and ability to proactively set priorities/objectives and execute against them.
• A desire to work both independently and in team settings.
• Experience working with and managing complicated and/or messy data from numerous sources.
• Bachelor's degree preferably in a quantitative field (e.g., computer science, business, mathematics, statistics).
• 0-2 years in a quantitative data operations or analytics role.

Nice-to-haves

• Knowledge and/or experience in Data Analysis conducted in SQL, Python, R, SAS, Alteryx, etc.
• Proficiency in Microsoft Office products (especially Excel and PowerPoint).
• Experience in data visualization tools (Tableau, Qlik, R, etc.).