Company Description
Experian is the world's leading global information services company, unlocking the power of data to create more opportunities for consumers, businesses, and society. We are thrilled to share that **FORTUNE has named Experian one of the 100 Best Companies to work for**. In addition, for the last five years, we've been named in the **100 "World's Most Innovative Companies" by Forbes Magazine**.
**Job Description**:
This role is responsible for supporting and leading data manipulation and reporting, quality assurance, documentation and internal/client communication projects.
Key Responsibilities/Activities
**DATA ANALYSIS (30%)**
- Carry out and when required, supervise others carrying out, the extraction, formulation and manipulation of data to create the structured samples necessary to address business requirement.
- Interpret and, where appropriate, supervise others in the interpretation of data specifications.
- Experiments with alternative solutions to discover improvement opportunities
- Develops creative solutions that better utilize Experian and client data and produce new insights
- Ensure quality and accuracy of own work and the work of any junior data engineer on the project.
- Produced analysis is accurate and completed to agreed timescales, resulting in positive feedback from client/customer.
- Follow Business Line procedures and processes throughout the data extraction, formulation and manipulation process, ensuring all work is produced to the agreed specification, and meets all requirements.
- Take responsibility for the production of high quality results documentation.
- Identify and resolve data problems, producing appropriate analysis to verify results.
- Identify potential gaps in own technical/business knowledge that might compromise the deadlines. Work with Project Managers or Consultant to plan timely steps to fill gaps.
- Challenge existing processes and recommend improvements.
- Share findings with peers from other VM Teams and management where required.
- Prepared to communicate ideas in knowledge sharing forums.
- Ensure the quality of all data sent to clients/customers (e.g. project development samples; retrospective bureau data and Bureau Score data (if applicable))
- Analyse and confirm the integrity of source data to be evaluated.
**PROJECT and TIME MANAGEMENT (30%)** - Plan, organise and complete own workload to meet project commitments within agreed schedules
- Input into the review and assessment of client/customer requirements to produce a data project specification.
- Produces data specifications.
- Anticpates project needs and actively collects information and resources with assistance
- Liaise with other internal and external project management groups to ensure project is delivered as part of complete solution.
- Input into the accurate assessment of the work that needs to be undertaken to define and maintain a project plan.
- Plan, organize and complete own workload and supervise, where appropriate, the workload of any junior data engineer on the project, to meet project commitments within agreed schedules.
- Is able to manage multiple tasks simultaneously without compromising the quality of the final deliverables.
- Provide pro-actively status reports and progress updates to Project Manager or Consultant as required, for all projects/tasks.
- Contribute to the preparation of regular project status reports to both internal and external parties.
- Proactively identify potential risks in achieving project timescales, taking pro-active action to minimize risk.
- Recognize when issues or problems need to be escalated.
- Maintain accurate time recording to projects in the appropriate internal time tracker software
- Effectively uses project management / planning tools
- Proactively use time recording data to identify inefficiencies in project work and recommend improvements
- Implement appropriate quality control procedures for all analysis reporting
- Reduce error rate & re-run frequency. Meet both the analytical & business objective
- Reconcile analytical projects with Business Unit objectives and proactively propose solutions to meet clients needs.
- Collaborate with internal and external clients to determine the appropriate performance measures and statistical metrics to be applied during the analysis project.
- Produce and implement project plans for analytical processes.
- Generate reports following quality control procedures to document analysis findings
**MANAGING CLIENT AND INTERNAL RELATIONSHIPS (30%) - **Support the project team by understanding the client's requirements
- Communicate with client and/or other departments/divisions within Experian to help ensure accurate and timely implementation of project work, and to enable them to manage client expectations.
- Ensure full understanding of the client's/customer's requirements.
- Ensure that all written and verbal communication is clear and professional.
- Build and maintain