Data Analyst
Cognizant Technology Solutions · May 2024 – Present
- Translated business questions into comprehensive analytics strategies, ensuring clear data requirements, KPI definitions, and actionable stakeholder insights.
- Extracted and managed data from SQL, Snowflake, Excel, and other systems, leading to comprehensive analyses across various dimensions such as geography, product, and customer segments.
- Profiled raw datasets for inconsistencies, mitigating errors in analysis by identifying issues like missing values and unexpected volume changes before processing.
- Conducted advanced analyses including trend, variance, and root-cause, to assess changes in sales and operational KPIs, enhancing strategic decision-making.
- Delivered 12+ reports and dashboards.
- Optimized data access with filters and drill-downs.
- Reduced Excel use, boosting consistency.
- Partnered with stakeholders to streamline workflows, achieving a 40% reduction in manual reporting efforts and a 60% decrease in preparation time through automated solutions.
- Prepared survey data for analysis by standardizing responses and providing clean data sets for valid frequency and cross-tab comparisons across segments.