Data Analyst

Company Description

We help the world see new possibilities and inspire change for better tomorrows. Our analytic solutions bridge content, data, and analytics to help business, people, and society become stronger, more resilient, and sustainable.

Job Description

About the Team: 

The work environment is fast paced, fun, and collaborative. We value and recognize excellent work, and encourage innovative and creative thinking, yet also emphasize the importance of work/life balance. Our team is comprised of professionals from diverse backgrounds with a range of degrees and past work experience.   

About the Job: 

• Audit building permit data: Verify that data meets specific quality requirements. Utilize knowledge of MySQL and databases to identify errors in the source data or in processing.   
• Normalize building permit data: Receive data in a variety of different formats and use internal applications to clean and normalize data. Use regular expressions to manipulate poorly formatted data. Ensure that data is consistent across the board.   
• Communicate with team members: When data does not meet requirements, make clear recommendations on what needs to be fixed. Communicate efficiently to relay findings to co-workers.   
• A mindset of continuous improvement: Identify steps in the process that could be improved. Share ideas with team members and management in an ongoing effort to optimize our team’s performance.   

Qualifications

The qualified candidate will have both the attitude and the experience to successfully fill this role, including:  

• Detail oriented: The successful Data Analyst audits large quantities of data and identifies potential issues.  
• Technically skilled: This person has a working knowledge of relational databases. They are comfortable in MySQL and able to pick up new concepts quickly. *Preferred but not required.  
• Collaborator: The Data Analyst works well in a team environment. They lean on fellow employees and internal resources to assist them with their duties.  
• Accountable: This person takes responsibility for each task that they work on. They are invested in the data and claim responsibility for the outcome.  
• Adept Communicator: Comfortable communicating with both technical and non-technical team members and keeps clear and concise notes.   
• Committed to quality with a strong desire to meet and exceed expectations through attention to detail, technical knowledge, and willingness to trouble shoot and support the other team members.  
• Comfortable in a hard-working, fast paced, team environment with the ability to have fun and get the job done.  

Experience and Skills: 

The candidate should possess a well-rounded background, which may have been acquired through prior job experience, coursework, or personal projects, with as many of the specific qualifications as possible:  

• Experience working with several different types of file formats.   
• Experience working as part of a strong team.   
• Experience with relational databases is preferred but not required.   
• Experience using regular expressions to manipulate data is a plus.   
• Great problem-solving skills.   

Other Qualifications: 

• Education: Bachelor’s degree or equivalent 
• Full-Time Employment: Ability to work as a full-time employee   
• Work Environment: Ability to work from our Asheville, NC office  

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Additional Information

In 2022, Verisk received Great Place to Work® Certification for our outstanding workplace culture for the sixth year in a row and second-time certification in the UK, Spain, and India. We’re also one of the 38 companies on the UK’s Best Workplaces™ list and one of 18 companies on Spain’s Best Workplaces™ list.

For over fifty years and through innovation, interpretation, and professional insight, Verisk has replaced uncertainty with precision to unlock opportunities that deliver significant and demonstrable impact. From our historic roots in risk assessment, we’ve grown to provide analytic insights that help transform industries focused on some of the world’s most critical areas. Today, the insurance industry relies on Verisk to be, and to make the world, more productive, resilient, and sustainable.

Verisk works in collaboration with our customers and at the intersection of people, data, and advanced technologies. Through proprietary platformed analytics, advanced modeling, and interpretation, we deliver immediate and sustained value to our customers and through them, to the individuals and societies they serve, with greater speed, precision, and scale.

We’re 9,000 people strong, committed to translating big data into big ideas. We help others see new possibilities and empower certainty into big decisions that impact individuals and societies. And we relentlessly and ethically pursue innovation to help move our customers, and the world, toward better tomorrows.

Everyone at Verisk—from our chief executive officer to our newest employee—is guided by The Verisk Way, to Be Remarkable, Add Value, and Innovate.
• Be Remarkable by doing something better each day in service to our customers and each other
• Add Value by delivering immediate and sustained results that drive positive outcomes
• Innovate by redefining what’s possible, embracing challenges, and pushing boundaries

Verisk Businesses

Underwriting Solutions — provides underwriting and rating solutions for auto and property, general liability, and excess and surplus to assess and price risk with speed and precision

Claims Solutions — supports end-to-end claims handling with analytic and automation tools that streamline workflow, improve claims management, and support better customer experiences

Property Estimating Solutions — offers property estimation software and tools for professionals in estimating all phases of building and repair to make day-to-day workflows the most efficient

Extreme Event Solutions — provides risk modeling solutions to help individuals, businesses, and society become more resilient to extreme events.

Specialty Business Solutions — provides an integrated suite of software for full end-to-end management of insurance and reinsurance business, helping companies manage their businesses through efficiency, flexibility, and data governance

Marketing Solutions — delivers data and insights to improve the reach, timing, relevance, and compliance of every consumer engagement

Life Insurance Solutions – offers end-to-end, data insight-driven core capabilities for carriers, distribution, and direct customers across the entire policy lifecycle of life and annuities for both individual and group.

Verisk Maplecroft — provides intelligence on sustainability, resilience, and ESG, helping people, business, and societies become stronger

At Verisk you can build an exciting career with meaningful work; create positive and lasting impact on business; and find the support, coaching, and training you need to advance your career. We have received the Great Place to Work® Certification for the 7th consecutive year. We’ve been recognized by Forbes as a World’s Best Employer and a Best Employer for Women, testaments to our culture of engagement and the value we place on an inclusive and diverse workforce.  Verisk’s Statement on Racial Equity and Diversity supports our commitment to these values and affecting positive and lasting change in the communities where we live and work.

Verisk Analytics is an equal opportunity employer.

All members of the Verisk Analytics family of companies are equal opportunity employers. We consider all qualified applicants for employment without regard to race, religion, color, national origin, citizenship, sex, gender identity and/or expression, sexual orientation, veteran's status, age or disability.

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