Senior Data Analyst - FT Specialist
Senior Data Analyst - FT Specialist
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About us
Here at the Financial Times gold-standard journalism is just the beginning. 500-people strong our Product and Tech team keeps us ahead of the constantly evolving digital world by delivering innovative products to over one million digital subscribers every day. Our growth plans rely on a diverse dedicated and dynamic group of product tech delivery and data specialists - everyones welcome in this friendly forward-thinking team. And with ambitious spirit intelligence and opportunity at every turn theres no limits to where your FT career will take you.
Our Commitment to Diversity Equity and Inclusion
We believe in the power of unique perspectives and want all voices in our organisation to be heard respected and valued. A supportive workplace is one where employees feel they can be themselves and operate to their full potential. We are committed to removing barriers for everyone with a focus on addressing those faced by underrepresented groups.
About FT Specialist
A key part of the business providing significant revenue and contribution to the FT is Specialist Titles (part of the wider FT Group Products portfolio).
FT Specialist brings together a portfolio of niche digital publications including ones with more than 160 years of tradition.
As a Senior Data Analyst in FT Specialist you will be responsible for delivering analyses dashboards and predictive models as well as supporting improvements to data quality and team processes.
You will work within the FT Specialist Data & Analytics team collaborating with other data professionals and colleagues from Specialist Titles and the wider Data & Analytics function to deliver impactful outcomes for our customers and business teams.
Projects may include developing new suites of dashboards conducting transformational analyses building predictive and descriptive models and integrating new data sources into existing analytics and BI reporting. Many initiatives focus on customer or audience acquisition retention and engagement supporting the long-term strategic goal of operational growth.
What youll work on
- Work with a wide variety of data sets applying strong business acumen to shape and contextualise findings.
- Provide robust analysis and actionable insights to help the business extract maximum value from analytics data.
- Build and maintain accurate reliable and user-friendly BI dashboards.
- Deliver analytical support to address strategic business questions and inform decision-making.
- Stay up to date with new technical and business developments to understand their impact on analytics and reporting needs.
- Collaborate closely with data and tracking engineers to continuously enhance data quality and structure of data used in analysis and reporting.
- Work with product managers marketing editorial and other collaborators to identify business needs and clarify expected outcomes.
- Extracts the true value and underlying business need from requests including deciphering hidden user needs.
Often used technology stacks and tools:
- AWS Redshift Looker Python Bloomreach Snowplow or similar tools
Essential skills and experience
- Excellent presentation and communication skills - particularly strong in presenting complex data and analytical findings to non-technical audiences
- Advanced SQL skills and proven experience analysing and combining large data sets
- Experience with Looker or a similar BI tool. Passion for data visualisation & familiarity with techniques.
- Commercial approach - ability to understand the commercial imperatives behind the data needs
- Ability to extract the true value and business need from a business request.
- Thorough inquisitive innovative out-of-the-box thinking with the ability to extract the true value and business need from a business request.
Desirable skills and experience
- Experience with Python for data analysis
- Experience in predictive modelling
In Return We Can Offer You
- Annual bonus scheme
- 25 days paid leave
- 24/7 Employee Assistance Program
- Life Insurance
- Enhanced Parental Leave policy
- Food Allowance
- Multisport Card
- Both in house and external training programs
- Your own training dedicated budget (for conferences courses etc.)
Accessibility
We are a disability confident employer and Valuable 500 signatory.
Please let us know if you require any reasonable adjustments/personalisation as part of the application process or to enable you to attend an interview. If you would like to discuss your requirements or have any questions email and a member of our team will be happy to help.
Further Information
At the FT we embrace innovation and the use of technology and appreciate that individuals may use AI tools as part of their job application process. Whilst we are happy for you to use AI to assist with your application it is essential that all information provided is authentic and accurately represents your skills experience and qualifications.
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Required Experience:
Senior IC
Employment Type
Full-Time
