Data Analyst
This is a contract position outside IR35, starting with a 6 month contract.
Overall Ambition
Nando’s is on a journey to Create Lasting Happiness, making a difference to the lives of our people, our customers, and the communities we work in. Originally started in Johannesburg, South Africa, we pride ourselves on creating memorable experiences for everyone involved in Nando’s: from our employees, communities, founders, and suppliers, but most importantly, our customers.
Whilst we always look back on our history and story with pride, the story is still evolving. We have recently been growing our digital capabilities to ensure the Nando’s experience remains relevant to modern-day customers.
You will be joining a tech team that has grown rapidly in the past five years and is determined to enable change within the restaurant industry by bringing innovative thinking and the latest technology tools and practices to solve some of its most complex problems.
The Data and Analysis Team
We are seeking an experienced Data Analyst to join our Data and Analysis team. Our remit is to ensure everyone has the access to the right information at the right time and Nando’s gets the best value out of our data to help achieve our business goals.
Our current focus is extracting insights from the data and creating a single source of accurate, timely data and managed in the best way as we continue to increase our data maturity and advance our predictive analytic capability.
You will be part of our work to support our strategic goals and embed a data-informed attitude for addressing our opportunities and challenges.
What we're looking for
Our Data Analysts work across a wide range of domains, helping our teams make better decisions based on sound data and analysis. They are the "voice of our data". As a Nando's Data Analyst you will help us test and learn about our world better and faster than ever before and draw insights and solutions for using our data in the best way.
In this role, there will be a focus on our product and stock data, but the role will also provide support for other domains, datasets and data consumers.
You will…
- Discover patterns in data
- Turn raw data into relevant insights
- Use data to help other teams to answer their most important questions Interpret and present via the most appropriate medium
Skills required:
You will have proven experience in the following:
- Assessing the most effective methods and technologies to approach tasks, with a focus on automating processes where possible
- Manipulating and querying data with SQL
- Cleansing, modelling data and visualising it using Looker or similar BI tool
- Delivering analysis and actionable business insights using Looker or similar tool
- Investigating, evaluating, interpreting and classifying data
- Applying data analysis, data modelling and quality assurance techniques
- Supporting engineering in designing, coding and testing data processing pipelines
- Creating and maintaining good documentation around our data and processes to document requirements, data models, data classifications, provenance and solutions
- An understanding around data governance and the importance of good data management
- Applying typical best practice and standards
- Ability to create, store, manage and share your code using different tools ensuring collaboration and visibility of work including maintaining good version control and other principles
You will also display:
- Good communication skills to both technical and non-technical stakeholders
- A desire to learn new techniques and new tools and support our data maturity journey
- An analytical problem-solving approach
- Ability to offer ways to improve existing processes and continually communicate and improve data management practices in your teams
- A great teamwork attitude
- Ability to grasp business process and objectives and how they relate to data activity
- Championing of excellent data quality
At Nando’s, everyone is welcome. Inspired by our Southern African heritage we know and value the richness that diversity brings to Nando’s. We’re committed to creating an inclusive and respectful culture for all; including our existing and future Nandocas, partners and suppliers, customers and the communities we are a part of. We deliberately work hard to create an environment where every individual is valued, respected and can flourish regardless of who they are, their background or outlook on life.
We welcome applications from a diverse range of individuals and will consider any reasonable adjustments in order to enable candidates to perform as well as possible during the recruitment process
