Data Analyst

Data Analyst

We’re building a more open society. Want to help?

OpenCorporates is the largest source of open company data in the world with over 200 million companies in our database. We firmly believe delivering genuine corporate transparency benefits both business and society. Our vision to become the world’s foundational and definitive source of company data.

Corporate transparency enables citizens, companies and governments to make clearer choices about who they do business with. It throttles crime, helps protect workers and our environment. It oils the wheels of prosperity, fairness and sustainability.

OpenCorporates was conceived to drive that change. We’ve worked with bodies like the World Bank and the G20 to spearhead initiatives such as the Open Company Data Index and the creation of the Global Legal Entity Identifier Foundation. Our expertise has shaped how the US Federal Government procures services; we have advised the European Commission on the EU Open Data Directive; and we were instrumental in the UK Companies House opening access to their company data.

Our platform dynamically captures and curates the records of over 200 million companies from 140 jurisdictions around the world — openly available information that is the foundation to sourcing, risk, compliance, and investigations processes for organisations around the world — large and small, public and private.

To help our rapidly growing user base derive greater insights from our data, we’re solving hard-core ‘big-data’ challenges: modelling, linking, profiling, cleaning and presenting actionable results from billions of data entities. We’re also establishing a globally scalable cloud infrastructure that can run these processes efficiently and reliably at scale; and serve our global audience via an ecosystem to rival AWS for ease of use and integration.

Our four company values outline the shared principles that define our culture and drive our success: we are bold, we are one team, we learn & adapt and we put our users first. Whether through day-to-day decision making, teamwork, supporting our clients or evaluating performance, the values are the lens we look through to help us achieve great things.

OpenCorporates operates an informal hybrid model around our London workspace. Working from home is the norm and in-person touchpoints are expected to become more frequent.

The Role:

The Data Analyst will report to the Head of Data Science and be responsible for analysing complex datasets of corporate registry information, supporting OpenCorporates various data science initiatives. Technical experience is useful but skills can always be learned, so the ideal candidate will demonstrate a high aptitude for learning and problem solving, as well as being comfortable working independently on various data tasks.

Your typical responsibilities will include:

• Analyse internal corporate registry data to identify trends, patterns, and insights

• Develop and maintain metrics, reports and possibly dashboards. Visualise and communicate key data findings

• Collaborate with the data science team to support data-driven decision making and project work

• Deliver insights to support Marketing & Impact functions

• Proactively identify opportunities to improve data quality and integrity

• Stay up-to-date with the latest data analysis techniques and tools, sharing knowledge with the team

• Comfortable working independently and demonstrate attention to detail

Requirements

Requirements:

• Bachelor's degree in a technical field (e.g. Data Science, Statistics, Physics) or equivalent working experience

• 2+ years of experience in data analysis roles, preferably using Python and SQL

• Experience with relevant python stack for data analysis preferred (Pandas, Jupyter, NumPY, Matplotlib etc)

• Experience working with large, complex datasets & exposure to big data tools would be beneficial. We have a lot of data!

• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills

• Excellent communication and collaboration skills

• Comfortable working with macOS

• Basic working knowledge of version control (e.g. Git)

• Familiarity with data visualisation tools & packages (e.g. Tableau, D3) is a plus

• Exposure to AWS would be good, but not essential