Senior Data Analyst

The Great Eastern Life Assurance Company Limited; Singapore; On-site; SGD 90,000 - 130,000; Full time

Job summary

The Great Eastern Life Assurance Company Limited is seeking a Senior Data Analyst in Singapore to partner with stakeholders, transforming data into strategic insights and compelling dashboards. This role demands strong analytical thinking, business acumen, and the ability to communicate data stories effectively.

You will conduct deep-dive analyses, align metric definitions with business needs, and collaborate with data engineers to build robust data pipelines while ensuring regulatory and policy

Qualifications

• Bachelor of Science degree in fields focusing on data analysis
• Minimum 5 years in BI/analytics as an individual contributor
• Minimum 5 years in data visualization tools (Tableau/PowerBI/QlikView)
• Minimum 5 years of SQL programming
• Ability to analyze, visualize and describe key trends within large datasets
• Strong requirements gathering, multitasking and prioritization under pressure
• Understanding of banking, insurance and financial services preferred
• Knowledge of Python preferred
• Curiosity and passion for understanding 'why?'
• Creativity to translate data into compelling stories for non-technical users
• Strong communication skills and ability to influence action using data
• High integrity, accountability and teamwork, proactive risk management

Responsibilities

• Collaborate with stakeholders to translate data into actionable insights
• Perform deep-dive analyses to identify trends, risks, and opportunities
• Design, build and enhance dashboards for ongoing business use
• Align metrics logics with latest business definitions
• Define data requirements with data engineers and validate data quality
• Define data pipelines to support analytics projects
• Ensure analytics work complies with internal and external policies
• Mitigate regulatory and compliance risks
• Keep abreast of regulatory trends to safeguard the company
• Share best risk management practices

Education

Bachelor’s degree in Business Analytics/Statistics/Economics/Actuarial Science/Data Science/CS/Math or equivalent

Tools

Tableau

Power BI

QlikView

SQL

Python

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 visualisations 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
• 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 is required
• Ability to analyse, identify, visualise and describe key trends within large datasets
• 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
• Knowledge of Python 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
• 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