Business Intelligence Analyst

Job Description

Business Intelligence Analyst - 38870

Analytics - USA Bentonville, Arkansas

Job Purpose

The Nielsen account team servicing Walmart is looking for a Business Intelligence Analyst to aid in the development of custom BI solutions to drive the use of Nielsen data (scan, panel, pricing) within new applications and processes. This is your opportunity to work with world-class data assets and deliver value at a massive scale serving the world’s largest retailer.

The Business Intelligence Analyst will contribute to the overall client satisfaction, team success, and technical platform capabilities. A strong candidate will proactively approach data and processes with analytic curiosity. This candidate will work with complex datasets and transform them into user friendly frontend applications that drive insights for the end users.

Responsibilities:

• Interface with team managers to understand the scope of their current problems and plan a technical solution
• Build adhoc solutions as well as structured, repeatable solutions and decide when each approach is called for
• Utilize various data streams to create custom analyses via programming and BI tools
• Create BI interfaces that enhance UX for anyone analyzing data (Tableau, Looker, MicroStrategy, PowerBI, etc.)
• Use programming languages to manipulate, transform, and prepare data for analysis (Python, R, etc.)
• Use relational databases to manipulate, transform, and prepare data for analysis (SQL Server, Azure, Teradata, etc.)

Skills:

• Strong understanding of scripting: data structures, loops, events, classes, functions, and modular programming (Python experience a plus)
• Strong understanding of SQL: nested queries, joins, temp tables, stored procs, and grouping data on the fly (T-SQL experience a plus)
• Comfortable parsing data from various file types using a programming language (ie: delimited, JSON, XML)
• Comfortable learning and using new programming or markup languages and quickly gaining a high level of proficiency
• Intermediate to Expert level understanding of Microsoft Excel
• Basic understanding of web development practices (ie: html, css, js)
• 2-3 years' of applicable experience

Bonus Skills:

• Extensive experience using lookML

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ABOUT NIELSEN

We’re in tune with what the world is watching, buying, and everything in between. If you can think of it, we’re measuring it. We sift through the small stuff and piece together big pictures to provide a comprehensive understanding of what’s happening now and what’s coming next for our clients. Today’s data is tomorrow’s marketplace revelation.

We like to be in the middle of the action. That’s why you can find us at work in over 100 countries. From global industry leaders to small businesses, consumer goods to media companies, we work with them all. We’re bringing in data 24/7 and the possibilities are endless. See what’s next with us at Nielsen: careers.nielsen.com

Nielsen is committed to hiring and retaining a diverse workforce. We are proud to be an Equal Opportunity/Affirmative Action-Employer, making decisions without regard to race, color, religion, gender, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, national origin, genetics, disability status, age, marital status, protected veteran status or any other protected class.

Job Type: Regular

Primary Location : Bentonville , Arkansas

Secondary Locations: , , ,

Travel: Yes, 5% of the Time