Excel Business Analyst

Job title: Excel Business Analyst

Location: Central London, UK (Office based)

Contract: Temporary (part-time with ideally 3 days per week)

Duration: 3 months with potential to become ongoing or permanent

Working hours: 9.00 am – 5.30 pm

Pay rate: £13 – £16 Per hour (Depending on experience)

Start Date: ASAP

Our client is a research consultancy company, which provides clients with data analytics and valuable insights, predominantly running research projects on behalf of global clients within the manufacturing and engineering industries.

They are now looking for business analyst to join their team on a part-time basis. The candidate will be responsible for analysing data-sets from clients and other available sources using Microsoft Excel.

You will be working directly with a team of consultants, reporting to the project manager where you will take responsibility in providing an easy-to-digest overview of the data-sets so that insight may be gained, and to work with the team to iterate and improve the analysis.

Key responsibilities

• Work closely with business stakeholders (Consultants) to understand key reporting objectives
• Turn large quantities of complex data in Excel into insights which can be used to inform decision making and drive business benefit
• Design, maintain, and automate data reports and provide actionable insights to stakeholders.
• Demonstrate flexibility and adaptability so to come up with new solutions to improve reporting

Requirements

• Educated to degree level or equivalent
• Advanced working knowledge of Microsoft Excel (knowledge of VBAs/macros not necessary)
• Basic research capabilities
• Working knowledge of Microsoft Word and PowerPoint would be beneficial
• 3+ years of experience in analysing large and complex data-sets
• Excellent communication and presentation skills
• Excellent organisation skills, and high attention to detail