About GradRightGradRight is the world’s first SaaS ecosystem that brings together students, universities and financial institutions on one platform. It enables students to find and fund high return college education, universities to engage and select the best-fit students and banks to lend in an effective and efficient manner. Our vision is to be the world’s leading Ed-Fin Tech company dedicated to making higher education accessible and affordable to all. We have enabled 250,000+ students to get the best deals on $ 4+ Billion of loan requests and facilitated disbursements of more than $ 450+ Million in loans. We enable 50+ universities across US, Europe, Canada to develop their brand in India, attract the right students to apply and enroll for their Graduate programs. It has commenced a new business line of marketing, enrolling and managing the Online Programs for its university partners. Founded in 2019, GradRight has offices across Hyderabad, Gurgaon, Bangalore, Delhi and Washington DC. GradRight’s team possesses extensive domestic and international experience in the launch and scale-up of premier higher education institutions like Ashoka, Krea and Plaksha University. It is led by alumni of IIT Delhi, ISB Hyderabad and BITS Pilani and University of Pennsylvania. GradRight is also the winner of the HSBC Fintech Innovation Challenge supported by the Ministry of Electronics & IT, Government of India. We are agile, motivated, small team, passionate about education and believe in having fun, working hard and helping each other grow professionally and personally. We look forward to inviting an energetic team member who has a knack for data and research across digital platforms that will help in revolutionizing the higher education sector.Core ResponsibilitiesTo conduct primary and secondary research on global education data and validate the accuracy of the data to produce meaningful informationTo analyze the data collected to ensure planning, developing and executing various business strategies using the Gradright platformTo create, develop and maintain various reporting systems, dashboards and performance metrics for the data teamTo manage and optimize processes for data intake, validation, mining and engineering as well as visualization To organize and drive successful completion of data insight initiatives through effective collaboration with the data analyst team and the senior leadershipTo understand analytical concepts and statistical techniques like hypothesis development, analyzing data, drawing conclusions, and developing actionable recommendations as per business requirementsTo solve bugs and data quality issues by proactive collaboration with stakeholders and partners to fix data issues or integrate data into analytics systemTo integrate large volumes of data and connect discrete data points to enable sales analyticsTo own process and systems improvement in different stages of data pipeline To communicate findings by developing monthly reports and deliverables to synthesize key findings for GradRight's senior leadershipTo develop analytical reports and dashboards encompassing data extraction (by querying databases), data transformation (by applying analytical techniques), data cleaning, creating excel based dashboards.To tag and annotate conversation data to provide useful information for the tech teamYou’re the best fit, if you have 2 - 5 years of experience as Business Analyst/Data Analyst/BI Analyst.Working knowledge of Mongo/SQL/postgresql and Python for data access and basic transformation, data scraping, manipulation.Experience with advanced data manipulation and summarization skills using python and Excel Expert skill level in Microsoft Word, Excel.Experience in working in data analytics and handling large volumes of data.Ability to work directly on databases to provide data analytical queries to Management and MIS for effective management review.Experience implementing Reporting, BI, Visualization and Analytics tools such Power BI / Tableau.Strong analytical skills with ability to synthesize data to design and deliver meaningful solutions.Strong attention to detail, written and verbal communication, and project management skills.A never say die attitude and perseverance to get tasks done.Adaptability and ability to work in a fast-paced environment.Maintain a high level of professional and ethical standards.
Job Title
Data Research Analyst