Data Analyst

Mindsprint Pte. Ltd.; Chennai; On-site; INR 900,000 - 1,300,000; Full time

Job summary

Mindsprint Pte. Ltd. is seeking an analytics-focused professional to support commodity procurement by identifying data sources, collating data, and crunching insights. You will present analytics via dashboards and reports to guide trading decisions.

The role emphasizes analysis of price trends, stock levels, shipment planning, and demurrage costs, with cross-functional collaboration to gather data and deliver timely insights.

Qualifications

• Hands-on analytics for commodity procurement and price trend analysis.
• Able to identify data sources from ERP, SharePoint, financials and carriers.
• Excel expertise with ability to build dashboards; Power BI a plus.
• Prepare concise reports and PPTs for traders and stakeholders.
• Collaborate across functions to collect and validate data.
• Strong written and verbal communication with stakeholders.

Responsibilities

• Data identification and collation from various sources/stakeholders.
• Data crunching and representing analytics through dashboards/presentations/reports.
• Analyze commodity price, trends, stock availability, shipment planning and demurrage costs.
• Data collation, assimilation, crunching, segmentation and driving analytics for informed decisions.
• Discuss requirements with stakeholders via emails/Teams to obtain data and ensure correct entry.
• Prepare reports/dashboards and share with stakeholders within the deadline.

Skills

Analytical skills

Large data analysis

Data integration

Excel proficiency

Power BI

MS Office reporting

Commodity price analysis

Data collation

Cross-functional collaboration

Stakeholder communication

Data governance

Dashboard creation

Tools

Power BI

Job description

The role involves analytics for commodity procurement. It will involve data identification & collation from various sources / stakeholders, data crunching, identifying and representing relevant analytical data through dashboards / presentations / reports based on the requirement for Commodity Procurement for Olam Agri. The primary focus will be analysis of commodity price, trends, stock availability, shipment planning, stocks in transshipment port, shipments incurring demurrage etc

Skills:

• Analytical skills
• Good with managing large data sets with numbers
• Accustomed to cross-linking data sets extracted from various ERPs, reports, shared files and similar systems & finally representing it
• Proficient with excel
• Power BI knowledge and usage is a plus
• Prepare reports through PPT and other MS office suite products
• Conduct a comprehensive analysis of price, costs and assist the trader with (analysis of commodity price, trends, stock availability, shipment planning, stocks in transshipment port, shipments incurring demurrage, freight rate analysis, supplier performance etc.
• Data collation & collection, assimilation, crunching, segmenting and driving analytics to help business in taking informed decisions
• Data will need to be derived from various sources: System (ERP, SharePoint, etc), Financial, Carriers, suppliers and a variety of stakeholders would need to be engaged. Collaborate across functions to obtain data and produce it as per the requirement from stakeholders.
• Knowledge of power BI would an advantage.
• May be required to discuss, clearly articulate the requirement to the stakeholder (through written emails, TEAMS calls, etc) and obtain the desired data
• May need to educate and ensure the stakeholder in the manner of collating, maintaining and entering the data into the relevant systems
• Review the collated data, identify & analyze it to obtain the desired result
• Prepare reports / dashboards as required by the project / process and share this with the stakeholder within the stipulated time