Reporting Data Analyst

PRA Group (Nasdaq: PRAA)•Norfolk, VA

1d•$73,900 - $110,900•Hybrid

About The Position

Handles moderately complex issues and problems, applying practical knowledge of principles and practices of their area of specialty. Supports, and leads simple to moderately complex projects and programs. Designs, develops, implements, and maintains data programming solutions for data quality and business rules analysis, hypothesis testing, champion/challenger testing, and product or strategy decision advancements. Maintains technical process expertise through understanding of software solutions, technical steps, and underlying data used to execute decisioning. Serves as a subject matter expert on the input and output of data to support research or advancements. Programs for the desired workflow of data decisions and hypothesis testing. Maintains a quality and control aspect of data execution used for decision making. Builds data visualizations to report and inform others about what is occurring in the underlying data.

Requirements

Intermediate-level experience in Data Mining, Data Analysis, Report building and SQL with strong data mining/data visualization capabilities
Experience with creating dashboards using either Power BI, Tableau or Qlik
BA/BS in a Science, Technology, Engineering, Mathematics (STEM) or quantitative field
Ability to write SQL code for intermediate query level functioning doing inner, left and right joins, etc.
Importing/exporting data into SQL Server from various sources (text files, spreadsheets, Access DBs)
Creating ODBC connections to SQL Server from Excel Spreadsheets or Access DBs so that end users can refresh reports directly in Excel or Access
Creating/Modifying/Executing T-SQL Queries and Scripts
Mining, cleaning, and managing large data sets and troubleshoot data issues identified
Data preparation methods handling of missing data and general imputation
Good understanding and curiosity regarding business as well as ability to communicate effectively with stakeholders

Nice To Haves

Experience with creating dashboards using either Power BI, Tableau or Qlik
Prefer someone with experience working with Excel and GitHub
Any experience with either Oracle or Microsoft Fabric is preferred

Responsibilities

Provide data mining, cleaning, and data analysis using database programming/mining tools.
Execution and troubleshooting of coding processes.
Conduct data analysis to identify the impact of process changes.
Enhance the monitoring and control mechanisms to business processes to ensure compliance with policies and procedures.
Maintain documentation along with change management and testing documentation as required.
Support existing dashboards for activity performance as it relates to business processes being maintained by the department.
Research data issues and report and resolve discrepancies.
Assist other senior data leads in executing projects, ad-hoc requests, or technical execution of changes related to data or activities.