Matrix is an innovative technology company that designs, manufactures, and sells products and services focused on helping employers and employees work smarter and safer. Originally focused on the United States’ underground coal mining industry, Matrix has expanded into industrial markets in both the United States and around the globe.

The work of Matrix’s data analytics group, Matrix Analytics, is led by a growing team of members based out of Lexington, Kentucky. Matrix Analytics projects are geared toward integrating hardware, software, and analytics solutions to successfully meet the needs of Matrix’s clients and include work with the international subsidiaries of Matrix.

The Junior Data Analyst assist the analytics team in collecting and interpreting data to help a company take actionable steps to improve their performance and meet goals. Their duties include gathering company information and statistics, building reports to be presented to executives and finding ways to improve a company’s efficiencies using gathered data. As an entry-level employee, the Junior Data Analyst is expected to work as a cohesive member of the Matrix Analytics team.

This position reports to the Head of Analytics: Operations.

Duties and Responsibilities

• Create Dashboards and Reports.
• Design, build and deploy SQL BI solutions, predominantly using multiple Excel and SQL data sources.
• Maintain and support data analytics platforms.
• Prepare and analyse data using R, Python, SQL, SAS, and Excel.
• Performing quality control procedural checks including cleaning data to ensure accuracy and consistency.
• Visualization of outputs including developing graphs, reports, and presentations of project results.
• Finding patterns and trend in data and communicating them to team members.

Qualifications

• Minimum a bachelor’s degree in computer science, mathematics, economics, statistics, finance, or related fields.
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills.
• Experience with ETL process.
• Data analysis.
• Regression analysis.
• Dashboard creation.
• Data quality assessment.
• Data Mining.
• Research on broad range topics.
• Motivated and highly driven.
• Passionate for developing new skills.
• Ability to work well in a pressured/high pace environment.
• Experience in transforming and manipulating large datasets.
• Team player with the ability to support the team.
• A tertiary qualification demonstrating proficiency in programming/ economics and/or mathematics.
• Programming, mathematical, and statistical skills.
• Prior knowledge on R, Python, SQL, or other programming languages.
• 1 years’ experience with Power BI/Tableau/QlikView or similar Business Intelligence platform.
• Strong understanding of Microsoft Excel including VLOOKUP and Pivot table experience.
• The general working conditions for this position are in an office environment.

Benefits

• First day coverage of all benefits - no waiting period
• No premium medical, dental and vision insurance
• Basic Life (2x annual base salary at no cost)
• Optional Life and Accidental Death and Dismemberment (AD&D) Insurance
• Short-Term and Long-Term Disability Insurance (no cost)
• 401(k) Plan with up to an 8% company match
• FSA for Health Care and Dependent Care
• 10 Paid annual holidays plus vacation time
• Educational Reimbursement Program
• Scholarship Program

Working Conditions

The general working conditions for this position are in an office environment.

Physical Requirements

The physical requirements can include long hours on a computer keyboard and prolonged periods of sitting. There may also be periods of standing and/or walking. The ability to lift 10 pounds may also be necessary.

Physical Demands: The physical demands described here are representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.