Description
Role Description:
- Business Analyst position is focused on developing analytical solutions
- Responsible for managing large datasets and providing business insights
- Transforms data into actionable business information
- Designs and implements analytics solutions
- Works with stakeholders worldwide to drive business impact
Skills Of a Successful Business Analyst
- Strong SQL and data analytics capabilities
- Excellence in data visualization and dashboard creation
- Advanced Excel skills (VBA, pivot tables, power pivots)
- Strong stakeholder management abilities
- Problem-solving and analytical thinking
- Communication and presentation skills
- Ability to handle ambiguity
Competencies
Must Haves:
- Analytical experience
- Proficiency in SQL
- Strong data visualization skills
- Stakeholder management experience
- Excel expertise
Good To Have
- Experience with large-scale data sets
- Knowledge of metadata modeling
- Pipeline monitoring experience
- Business domain knowledge
- Experience with multiple analytics tools
Why Is This Role Difficult To Hire
- Rare combination of technical and business skills required
- Need for both analytical and communication capabilities
- High demand for experienced analysts in the market
- Complex technical requirements (SQL, data visualization, Excel)
- Competition from other tech companies (like Flipkart, Uber, Ola)
Why Are Business Analysts Critical At Amazon
- Drive data-driven decision making
- Provide crucial insights into operations health
- Transform complex data into actionable business information
- Enable stakeholders worldwide to access and understand data
- Support business growth through analytical solutions
- Help identify trends, patterns, and improvement opportunities
A Day In The Life
- Creating and managing datasets
- Building and maintaining dashboards
- Conducting deep dive analyses
- Meeting with stakeholders to gather requirements
- Monitoring data pipelines
- Optimizing query performance
- Creating visualizations and reports
- Presenting insights to business leaders
- Making data-driven recommendations
- Collaborating with technical teams
- Working on metadata modeling
- Managing competing priorities in an agile environment
A day in the lifeCandidate is expected to have a good SQL and business acumen. Every day goes by requirement gathering , understanding the business problem, gaining vast knowledge on the amazon databases and interfaces, suggesting optimal solution to problem statement, qualify and quantifying the problem statement using insightful data points.
Basic Qualifications
- Experience creating complex SQL queries joining multiple datasets, ETL DW concepts
- Experience defining requirements and using data and metrics to draw business insights
- Knowledge of data visualization tools such as Quick Sight, Tableau, Power BI or other BI packages
- 2+ years of Excel or Tableau (data manipulation, macros, charts and pivot tables) experience
- Experience with SQL or ETL
- 2+ years of tax, finance or a related analytical field experience
- 2+ years in End-End handling of business analysis from requirement gathering to insightful metrics presentation
Preferred Qualifications
- Experience working with Tableau
- Experience using very large datasets
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Company
- ADCI MAA 15 SEZJob ID: A3032397