Senior Data Analyst

Great Eastern; Singapore; On-site; SGD 90,000 - 160,000; Full time

Job summary

Great Eastern seeks a Senior Data Analyst to transform enterprise data into actionable insights and enable business performance through analytics. You will build best-practice visualizations and dashboards, work independently on analytics projects, and collaborate with stakeholders and data engineers to define data pipelines and governance.

The role emphasizes data-driven decision making, strong communication, and the ability to translate complex data into clear business narratives for

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in a data-related field with focus on data analysis.
• Minimum 5 years of experience in BI/analytics projects as an individual contributor.
• At least 5 years’ experience with SQL programming and MS Office.
• Ability to analyze, visualize and describe key trends in large data sets.
• Familiarity with Python is a plus.

Responsibilities

• Translate data requirements from stakeholders into actionable insights.
• Perform deep-dive analyses to identify trends, risks and opportunities.
• Design and enhance visual analytics assets to drive dashboard adoption.
• Maintain data models ensuring data accuracy and integrity.
• Collaborate with data engineers on data pipelines and governance.

Skills

Strong communication skills

Data storytelling

Analytical thinking

Creativity

Curiosity

Education

Bachelor of Science in Business Analytics/Statistics/Economics/Actuarial Science/Data Science/Computer Science/Mathematics

Tools

Tableau

Power BI

QlikView

Job description

The Senior Data Analyst is responsible to work closely with business stakeholders to transform enterprise data into actionable insights. This role is critical in enabling business performance through strong analytical thinking, sound business acumen, and the ability to communicate insights via compelling data storytelling. The role entails conducting deep‑dive analyses and developing best practice data visualizations and dashboards using appropriately aggregated data sources. The Senior Data Analyst is expected to work independently to deliver analytics projects, collaborate closely with key stakeholders, and apply the necessary technical expertise to implement analytics solutions that position data as a strategic asset.

• Collaborate with business stakeholders to understand requirements and translate data into meaningful actionable insights
• Perform deep‑dive analyses to identify trends, risks, and opportunities that support strategic decision‑making
• Design, build and enhance visual analytics assets to ensure continued relevance and usage of the dashboards by business users for making informed decisions
• Maintain data models to ensure all data are up to date with data accuracy and integrity
• Collaborate with business to align logics of key metrics, and to ensure code logics correctly reflect latest business definitions
• Work closely with business stakeholders and data engineers to communicate data requirements, and validate quality of data products
• Work with data engineers to define the key data pipelines required to support Business
• Ensure all analytics project undertaking comply with both internal and external policies, guidelines and regulations
• Takes accountability in considering business and regulatory compliance risks and takes appropriate steps to mitigate the risks.
• Maintains awareness of industry trends on regulatory compliance, emerging threats and technologies in order to understand the risk and better safeguard the company.
• Highlights any potential concerns /risks and proactively shares best risk management practices.

• Bachelor of Science degree in Business Analytics, Statistics, Economics, Actuarial Science, Data Science, Computer Science, Mathematics or equivalent disciplines that focuses on extensive use of data for analysis
  
• A minimum 5 years of experience participating in business intelligence and analytics projects as an individual contributor required
  
• A minimum 5 years of experience in data visualization tools (Tableau / PowerBI / Qlikview) is required
  
• A minimum 5 years of experience in SQL programming and standard MS Office applications is required
  
• Ability to analyze, identify, visualize and describe key trends within large datasets
  
• Hands-on experience with large volumes of data using SQL, Spark, Hadoop, or other big data ecosystems is preferred
  
• Good at requirements gathering, multitasking and work prioritization and being able to deliver work timely under pressure
  
• Understanding of banking, insurance and financial services is preferred
  
• Curiosity & a real passion for understanding “why?”
  
• Creativity to see possibilities within the data & translate into compelling stories, decision and actions for non-technical business users
  
• Strong communication skills and ability to influence the business to take action using data
  
• Knowledge of Python is preferred
  
• High level of integrity, takes accountability of work and good attitude over teamwork.
  
• Takes initiative to improve current state of things and adaptable to embrace new changes