Since 2011, General Assembly has transformed tens of thousands of careers through pioneering, experiential education in today’s most in-demand skills. As featured in The Economist, Wired, and The New York Times, GA offers training in web development, data, design, business, and more, both online and at campuses around the world. Our global professional community boasts 60,000 full- and part-time alumni — and counting. In addition to fostering career growth for individuals, GA helps employers cultivate top tech talent and spur innovation by transforming their teams through strategic learning. More than 21,000 employees at elite companies worldwide have honed their digital fluency with our upskilling and reskilling initiatives. GA has also been recognized as one of Deloitte’s Technology Fast 500, and Fast Company has dubbed us leaders in World-Changing Ideas as well as the #1 Most Innovative Company in Education.

GA is at the leading edge of creating practical solutions to one of the most pressing challenges of our time - the future of work. As recognized by The World Economic Forum, BCG, the OECD and more, these are big challenges to which only a few companies are offering real solutions. In this role, you'll be speaking every day to corporate leaders who rely on GA to help them apply these solutions to their workforce of the future. 

The role:

We are seeking world-class problem solvers who have a passion for data and a relentless focus on execution and delivery. You will be most successful with a healthy combination of both, technical skills and business acumen. As a Data Analyst you will generate insights by conducting extensive analyses of rich data. In the process, you will develop a deep understanding of the payments business, our site functionality, further strengthen your analytic, leadership and presentation skills and gain exposure to a wide variety of functional teams. 

Key Responsibilities

• Understand how to make data visually appealing and simple to both navigate and comprehend for end-users
• Aggregate data from various sources to construct streamlined data pipelines and integrate data from multiple systems
• Identify key metrics and build exec-facing dashboards to track the progress of the business and its highest priority initiatives
• Identify key business levers, establish cause & effect, perform analyses, and communicate key findings to various stakeholders to facilitate data driven decision-making
• Work closely across the matrix with teams like Finance, Marketing, Product, Engineering and senior executives
• Lead and participate in special projects/initiatives: innovate and implement large-scale quality improvements to processes and/or systems by conducting data analysis and making recommendations, troubleshooting technical issues, and refining processes around customer support
• Requirements Gathering, with specific focus on business data analysis
• Ability to understand and trace data from end-to-end, with specific skills in generating/reviewing source-to-target mappings.
• Ability to identify, understand, articulate and document business requirements
• Ability to work with business to standardize and formalize BRDsIdentify and develop solutions to business needs
• Ability to understand business and system impacts and recommend appropriate solutions
• Ability to assist business/PM to identify enterprise data requirements
• Systems Analysis
• Ability to perform source system analysis to determine enterprise data impacts
• Ability to identify and perform downstream, usage and impact analysis
• Ability to perform data analysis
• Ability to read/understand Entity Relationship and logical data models
• Able to establish and build lasting relationship with Business/PD stakeholders

Basic Requirements:

• Proficiency with database, spreadsheet, and statistical tools
• Advanced SQL experience, preferable with Teradata systems, data mining, and Big Query analytics (Google Cloud).
• Expertise in stitching together findings to convey coherent insights
• Experience analyzing very large, complex, multi-dimensional data sets.
• Experience with one or multiple of the following will be highly desirable; Python, Tableau, Jupyter Notebooks, Teradata, Hadoop/Hive, SQL, BigQuery
• Ability to solve problems analytically and create actionable recommendations
• Ability to use reporting tools like Tableau, Looker, and/or Excel to share analysis is a plus
• Work experience in the payments, ecommerce, or financial services industry is a plus
• Strong written and verbal communication skills with the ability to translate complex problems into simpler terms, and effectively influence both peers and senior leadership

The anticipated annualized salary range for this position in the US market is up to $65,000. Salary will be determined based on experience, education, geographic location, and other factors. 

Unless otherwise noted, remote positions can be performed from the following approved General Assembly operating countries.

United States of America (states of operation may vary), Canada (provinces of operation may vary), United Kingdom, Australia, and Singapore.