AlphaSights operates at the heart of the global knowledge economy, providing a suite of knowledge-on-demand services to investment firms, consultancies, corporations and nonprofits. Our proprietary knowledge search technology connects decision makers to globally distributed knowledge faster than ever before. Clients use this knowledge to enhance their thinking, inform critical decisions and propel their business forward. Founded in 2008, AlphaSights currently employs more than 1,500+ professionals in nine offices around the globe and regularly ranks as one of the fastest-growing companies in the world.
The Role:
As a Business Intelligence Analyst in AlphaSights’ Strategy & Analytics team you will play a key role in enabling senior leadership make better-informed data-driven decisions that further the growth of their business unit/region. The Business Intelligence tools and reporting you build, will provide leaders with easy access to accurate and structured commercial and operating data, in real-time. You will be based in London, but will work with employees from across the organisation (both regionally and functionally) to execute on analytics projects.
This is an excellent opportunity for motivated and hardworking professionals, who want to develop highly transferrable skills in data analysis, business acumen and critical thinking, and learn from colleagues with backgrounds in management consultancy and data analytics.
What you’ll do:
Dashboard development: Extract data from our proprietary systems, partner effectively with Engineering to establish connections between this data and our third-party BI tools, and build clean dashboards that enable senior leaders to easily access and visualise the data
Go-to-market: Support seamless dashboard releases, including coordination of necessary documentation and training for impacted users
Executive communication: Present new dashboard releases / updates and general enhancements made to the BI product, to senior leaders across all business functions, many of whom use these reports on a daily basis to affect change within their segments
User feedback: Collate structured feedback from power users on a regular basis and share with the team to help inform the future BI roadmap (i.e., new dashboard designs, upgrades to data visualisations, updates to back-end data for new metrics etc.)
BI maintenance: Take ownership of existing dashboards and reports which support the smooth commercial and operational running of the business; identify new and improved ways to showcase management information in a scalable manner
Who you are:
No prior experience required however relevant internships or work in an analytical role (e.g., consulting, accounting, data reporting etc.) is highly regarded
Excellent analytical and quantitative skills – you love working with data, enjoy technical challenges and have an innate desire to complete data tasks, no matter how complex; also evidenced by holding a 2:1 or above in a quantitative degree (e.g., Engineering, Maths, Statistics, Computer Science, Finance)
Great problem solver – you have an aptitude for solving complex and unstructured problems
Highly driven and proactive – you have excellent planning and organisational skills, can meet tight deadlines and prioritise workloads in a fast-paced environment
Want to create impact – you care about solving users needs and providing senior leaders with actionable data insights that propel the growth of AlphaSights
Effective communicator – you have excellent written, verbal, presentation and interpersonal skills, including an ability to communicate complex concepts clearly and concisely with technical and non-technical teams
Meticulous – you hold yourself to high standards and have an obsessive attention to detail
Technical skills:
Mastery of Excel
Proficiency in SQL is a strong plus
Experience with multiple BI reporting mediums (Tableau, Periscope) is a strong plus
Must pass a quantitative based test for application to be progressed
