Why we’re hiring for this role:
We’re looking for a Data Analyst to join our growing team to enable Peach Payments to make data driven decisions. This is an opportunity to join in our effort to expand our business in Africa. The goal for Data is to provide the right insights, so that, as Peach, we make data-driven decisions that benefit our merchants.
We're looking for an analyst who can learn fast, figure things out independently and show us better ways for solving complex problems in the ecommerce space.
You will report to Liesl Lohlun, Peach’s Director of Data
Core function of the role:
- Collaborate
- Work as an effective team member in a cross functional team
- Develop data skills across Peach, enabling others to self-serve
- Collaborate with different stakeholders to understand their data needs and translate business questions into data problems
- Identify opportunities for process enhancements
- Guide effective data collection, ensuring cleaner and more meaningful datasets
- Describe
- Automate reporting and visualization of key metrics
- Create analyses that tell a “story” focused on insights, not just data
- Provide operational support for Peach’ initiatives
- Identify opportunities for new relevant data to be captured in our databases
- Predict and Prescribe
- Apply models on large datasets to measure and predict results or outcomes
- Focus on those aspects that make an impact on Peach’ goals and north star
- Continuously explore new best practices and bring those to the team
- Recommend future questions and input into business decisions based on data insight
Things we take seriously:
- Open and empathetic communication across the team and company. We value each other’s thought processes and have an open forum to collaborate cross-domain
- You say what you do and do what you say. We’re all accountable to each other and our customers, we set expectations and meet them
- Ownership of the work that we do. We don’t push tickets through, we thoughtfully problem solve pain points for our customers before, during and after code development
- We document our approach to scale what we do, soliciting input from the team and ensuring no team member is left behind
- We are continuously learning to build mastery and become domain experts at a worldwide level
- We measure outcomes not outputs
What we’d like you to have:
- 4+ years experience in a Business Intelligence, Engineering, Data Engineering, Data Analyst and/or Data Science role, with a focus on analyzing large data sets to solve problems
- Bachelor’s degree in Mathematics, Statistics, Engineering, or a related technical field
- Entrepreneurial spirit that thrives in a fast paced environment, deals well with ambiguity and focuses on driving impact
- Proven ability to work cross-functionally, building and maintaining trust with internal stakeholders
- Curiosity to experiment with the most modern tools
- High attention to detail including precise and effective communications
- Hyper focus on and intuition for understanding the underlying needs of the business
- Knowledge of SQL
- Prior experience with visualisation
- AWS Experience
What do people say about working here?
We have a diverse, community-orientated team where failure is allowed. We fail fast but aim to succeed even quicker as we’re committed to enabling entrepreneurs.
We are a Hybrid Team
This means that our teams predominantly work out of the office. We expect you to have a home or other office set-up, with reliable internet access. Team members have the option of going to a work space or office closest to them, where this allows. We may, from time to time, request team members to come to the office or travel to a location out of your area for complete team Meet-Ups
We value diversity at Peach and therefore we are committed to inclusion across race, gender, age, religion, identity, and experiences.