Focal Systems

Senior Business Analyst

2 January 2025
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£47000 - £88000 / year

Job Description

About Calo 

Calo provides personalized meal plans for busy people through nutritional algorithms, built with love by chefs, nutritionists, and software engineers. 💚

Launched in Bahrain in 2019, we have since expanded to 5 countries in the region, delivered millions of meals to our customers, and launched our very own Grab & Go Cafe concepts.

We’re on a noble mission to make healthy easy. We think this is one of the most important problems to tackle in our world today. We have global ambitions – no small thinking here. 

Role Overview
We are looking for a passionate Senior Business Analyst to transform our data into valuable insights that will support us in making informed business decisions. The person will solve problems, work on problems independently, and guide more junior team members. The Senior Business Analyst specializes in an area of work, collaborates with one or two teams, and is a go-to person for their specific domain.

Main Responsibilities

  • Data collection, analysis, and reporting. Acquire data from primary or secondary data sources and maintain databases/data systems, ensuring that outdated portfolios are updated while unneeded reports are archived
  • Act as a thought leader and technical leader for business or product units
  • Manage independent, end-to-end, open-ended complex problems
  • Understand the business vision and insight requirements and collect requirements for new data analyses accordingly
  • Collaborate with leadership to identify and address broad scope impacts
  • Proactively identify and tackle important problems
  • Identify, Interpret, and  analyze data in complex data sets and provide ongoing reports 
  • Discover workarounds and solutions for complicated projects and MVPs
  • Write executive summaries with the conclusions of the data analysis produced

Ideal Candidate

Qualifications

  • Must be a proficient communicator in English 
  • Previous experience as a Data Analyst or any related field
  • BS in Mathematics, Economics, Computer Science, Information Management or Statistics

Knowledge & Competency

  • Proficiency in data analysis tools and techniques, such as SQL, Python, R, or equivalent programming languages
  • Experience with data visualization platforms like Metabase, QuickSight, Tableau, Power BI, or similar tools
  • Understanding of relational databases, data modeling, and data architecture concepts is a plus
  • Knowledge of statistics and experience using spreadsheets for analyzing datasets (Excel, google sheets)
  • Strong analytical skills with the ability to collect, organize, analyze, and disseminate significant amounts of information with attention to detail and accuracy
  • Adept at queries, report writing, and presenting findings
  • Outstanding communication and presentation skills; is comfortable with presenting their work in public
  • Display good work ethic, resourcefulness, and organization
  • Must be able to work under pressure and manage time accordingly 
  • Strong time-management skills
  •  Ability to translate business requirements into technical specifications and solutions
  • Ability to work independently and as part of a team, balancing multiple projects and deadlines
  • Ability to spot and resolve problems efficiently
  • Capable of managing multiple tasks

Personality

  • Strong communicator 
  • Ability to work both independently and in a team
  • Eager to learn 
  • Friendly and pleasant personality that can lead with empathy and patience