Data Analyst at Wakanow

Wakanow is Africa’s leading, full-service online travel company. At Wakanow, we understand that everyone likes easy and affordable travel services, so we provide our customers with a one-stop booking portal for Flights, Hotels, Visa Assistance, Holiday Packages, Airport Transfers, an international Travel SIM, a Prepaid Travel Card, a Loyalty program, and much more.

We are recruiting to fill the position below:

Job Title: Data Analyst

Location: Lagos, Nigeria

Purpose of Job

• The Data Analyst is responsible for identifying business trends and changes through advanced Big Data Analytics and using a variety of techniques to interpret results from multiple data sources through statistical analysis, data aggregation, and data mining.

Responsibilities

• Undertaking data collection, pre-processing and analysis
• Building models to address business problems
• Presenting information using data visualization techniques
• Combine models through ensemble modelling
• Present information using data visualization techniques
• Propose solutions and strategies to business challenges
• Responsible for cleansing of large unstructured data and enabling analytical capability in order to query the data and address various business needs.
• Identify valuable data sources and automate collection processes
• Undertake pre-processing of structured and unstructured data
• Analyse large amounts of information to discover trends and patterns
• Build predictive models and machine-learning algorithms

Education / Professional  Qualification and Experience

• Bachelor’s degree or minimum relevant degree
• Master’s Degree in a relevant field is an added advantage
• Minimum of 5 years experience

Key Skills & Competencies Requirements:
Functional/ Technical:

• Knowledge of R, SQL and Python; familiarity with Scala, Java or C++ is an asset
• Experience using business intelligence tools (e.g. Tableau) and data frameworks (e.g. Hadoop)
• Strong math skills (e.g. statistics, algebra).
• Knowledge of Google Functions, Google Big Query, Google Cloud Storage, Stitch Data.
• Understanding of machine learning and operations research

Method of Application

Interested and qualified candidates should:
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