Business Analyst  

The Business Analyst is the “whole brained" team member who has both left and right brained capabilities. He is capable of conducting / assisting in the technical analysis as part of a project team, while being able to assist as well in project management and contribute his/ her creative ideas to problem solving. The Business Analyst can talk “geek” today, sweat out the details in terms of project management tomorrow, can come up with brilliant powerpoint slides the next day and rev up a real fantastic Business presentation, delivering it in front of the Senior Leadership team. This role will work closely with various functional teams internally and with clients to translate business requirements into strong recommendations from Cobena on the basis of solid analysis, research and a lot of robust internal discussions within Cobena. The Business Analyst functions to put together all the pieces to help solve our clients' problems.

Responsibilities:

• Work with the Senior consultant in the preparation of project proposals; getting flie clients inputs, and post obtaining project approval, maintain oversight of the progress of the whole project (via high quality project management skills) in terms of Cobena's areas scope of work; requirements from clients and ensuring satisfactory full project delivery on time and within budget
• In charge of the clay to day liaison with the client
• In charge of conducting stakeholder interviews, desk research, data analysis to ensure that the requirements of the project deliverables are being met
• Explore and examine data from a variety of angles to determine hidden weaknesses, trends and/or opportunities
• Build high-performance algorithms, prototypes, predictive models and proof of concepts
• Design robust dashboards using different types of Business Intelligence/analytics tools
• Design computer programs for extracting data and the conduct of analytics
• Recommend ways to improve data reliability, efficiency and quality
• Collaborate with data architects, modelers and IT team members on project goals
• Co-develop new algorithms to solve problems ; working with the Data analysts in the organization in the design, running of machine learning models, simulation models and other statistical tools
• Writes programs to derive desired answers, inputs into the design of database systems to allow for robust and efficient database management, particularly for use in scoreboards/dashboards
• Communicate predictions and findings to management through effective data visualizations and reports
• Present analysis results to clients and engage them in a thorough discussion on possibilities; provides further iteration to ensure that constructed models are “best fit” to the business situation
• Works closely with the Account management, Finance, and Data management teams to put together cohesive business proposals that provide the most efficient and effective way to address business issues;
• Assists Finance in ensuring the collections of company receivables in the course of project milestones
• Assists in the conduct of company public training sessions for Cobena Data Sciences Academy
• Any additional responsibilities that may be assigned from time to time

Technical Skills (Analytics and Computer Science)

Candidate must possess a working knowledge of one or a combination of the following skills :

• Analytics - Understanding what data to collect, how to analyze it and detect patterns and links; conversant to expert in the areas of Linear algebra, linear programming and operations research
• Accounting skills: Financial or Management accounting
• Computer Science - Automating new, break—out algorithmic processes to drive business changes.
• Knowledge of the following preferred:
  • SAS and/or R — In-depth knowledge of at least one of the analytical tools available.
  • Python Coding - Knowledge of coding languaga such as Python, Java, Perl or C/C++
  • Hadoop
  • SQL Database/Coding - able to write and execute complex queries in SQL
  • Tableau/ Cognos/ Qlikview
  • o Unstructured data - able to work with unstructured data such as social media, video / audio feeds, etc.
• Statistics - Seeking innovative insights by correlating data in new ways. (preferred but not required)
• Must possess very strong Microsoft Office skills: Excel, Powerpoint & Word

Non-Technical Skills

• Creativity - Designing new approacha to collecting, analyzing and interpreting data.
• Business Strategy - Understanding the business objectives, hurdles, competition, goals and futures: getting from point A to B.
• Communication - Presenting results to ensure the insights are understood, deployed and expanded, engaging stakeholders throughout the change journey
• Project Management - Monitors closely project deliverables and ensures achievement of the same by mobilizing internal resources and coordinating with clients and their various departments
• Client management skills — Must like working with people; has a genuine curiosity for understanding others and seeing things from the point of view of the other person

Personal Attributes

• Highly analytical and intelligent
• Intellectually curious.
• Strong interpersonal skills, ability to communicate (English and Tagalog) well.
• Collaborates with functional and cross-functional teams well.
• Strong problem solving and creative skills and the ability to exercise sound judgment and make decisions based on accurate and timely analyses.
• High level of integrity and dependability with a strong sense of urgency and results-orientation.