Data Analyst Job Description

 A Data Analyst, sometimes also known as a number cruncher, is a data specialist, most often in the accounting or investigative  fields, who by means of analytical methodologies makes sense of numbers by breaking up data into core elements.

Roles of a Data Analyst

• Plan and implement data project requirements in conjunction with stakeholders
• Assign and allocate resources and responsibilities
• Oversee the acquisition of valuable data
• Ensure / consider the viability of data for intended deliverables
• Use common sense approaches to ensure tactical advantage
• Identify / Acquire additional resources to complete project or add value if required
• Consider the advantages of data entry or data mining methodologies of acquiring data
• Prepare data for analysis (cleaning or scrubbing data)
• Establish occurrence of trends and / or patterns if such pertain to required outcomes
• Extract useful indicators pertaining to the desired deliverables
• Compare findings to relevant trends and / or patterns
• Report conclusions to stakeholder in an understandable manner
• Present key findings recommendations to stakeholders