Data Analyst

  • Full-time

Company Description

From Boston to London, Zurich to Shanghai, you'll find EF teams across the world working together to break down barriers of language, culture and geography. We've helped millions of people become global citizens through educational travel, language learning and academic degree programs. To continue to grow our culture of innovation, we're adding more entrepreneurial thinkers and passionate doers to make an impact, build great things, collaborate, travel the world, and pave a dynamic career path in global management, teaching, technology, sales and service. Learn more at www.ef.edu/careers 


Job Description

Data Analyst

Go Ahead Tours (a division of EF Education First)

Cambridge, MA

Do you have an obsession with numbers and interpreting the stories they tell? As part of Go Ahead’s Analytics team, you will work with a team of analytics professionals in the development of intelligent analyses backed by quantitative data that guide our strategic, tactical and operational business decisions.  You will proactively and upon request work with identifying trends that suggest new marketing & business opportunities and follow through with the recommendation of key strategies to leverage opportunities.  You will serve as an evangelist for the power of data analytics and present findings and recommendations to key stakeholders.  You will participate in the development of organizational benchmarks of key consumer metrics and performance indicators.

 

The role

  • Proactively work to identify business opportunities based on data driven problem solving
  • Reporting of analysis results and recommendations to senior management
  • Perform database queries/analysis including efficiency/performance measurement, cost analysis, return on investment and other related business-driven analyses
  • Responsible for working on data reports, auditing data reports for accuracy and presenting information to senior management
  • Create and improve existing reports and dashboards using a variety of Business Intelligence tools
  • Help to drive the organization toward data-based decision making

Qualifications

  • More than 2 years of experience as a data, business or operations analyst
  • Bachelors or Master’s degree in business, statistics, mathematics, economics, computer science, engineering or other quantitative discipline
  • Excellent communication skills
  • Ability to sift through data, identify critical information, analyze, develop hypothesis and make recommendations
  • Ability and drive for using analysis and modeling to generate business results.
  • PowerPoint knowledge, ability to create clear, structured and visibly appealing presentations
  • Advanced Excel knowledge, including Pivot Tables, Lookups, Macros, VBA, advanced formulas and charting.
  • SQL expertise
  • Expertise in data analysis and statistics
  • Knowledge of User Interface intuitive design principles, primarily related to reporting and dashboard for wide audiences
  • Familiarity with Qlikview and SalesForce.com would be a strong asset

Additional Information

ABOUT EF/Go Ahead

We are entrepreneurs. We are a global, organically collaborative, and mature organization. We are the world’s largest privately held education company. Our mission is to break down barriers in language, culture and geography for a broad range of environments and people.


Go Ahead is a smaller division within EF so you get the best of both worlds: the fast pace of a start-up and the benefits of a large company.


EF is an equal opportunities employer. EF offers competitive salaries and a multicultural working environment. If you are motivated by the prospect of an international career with a dynamic and forward-thinking company, we want to hear from you.


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