Data Analyst

Company Description
**Are you ready to be a big part of something big?**

At carsales, we're all about making buying and selling a great experience. For 25 years we’ve been evolving with the new economy to help people choose how they move today and tomorrow.

When it comes to your career, we want to provide big opportunities to help you make a big impact. But for this to be possible, we strive to feel small. Small enough to quickly change tack, small enough to learn from different departments and small enough to connect authentically with leadership.

Not something you’d expect from one of the country’s biggest tech companies, is it?

And one of the best parts? We give you the autonomy to choose the working location that best suits your lifestyle - Office, Hybrid or Anywhere.

**What’s on offer**:

- A place where you can move your career forward, where you’ll be continuously backed to make new ideas happen, and the chance to do work that makes real, significant impact in the world.
- We’re a certified Great Place to Work, Family Friendly Workplace and WGEA Employer of Choice.
- The support of a highly engaged, high-performing team including a leadership team that’s you’ll actually have face time with.
- 18 weeks paid parental leave for primary caregivers, four weeks paid secondary caregivers leave, six weeks paid gender transition leave.

**Job Description**:
**What you’ll do**:
This is your opportunity to transform the way data analytics is done within a world class business.

The Analytics and Insights team connects our stakeholders from across the business with the information they need to make data-informed decisions. You will join an established team of data specialists, helping colleagues work through complex tasks and helping our clients and internal stakeholders meet their analytics needs.

We’re looking for a data analyst to support our media business, reporting on the effects of advertising campaigns, generating audience insights, and helping us to understand carsales media's product and commercial performance.
- Support our stakeholders in media by working with them to understand the problems that they're facing and what data and insights we can provide to help to solve them.
- Share expertise in designing and conducting analysis, writing SQL queries to extract data from multiple and various data sources.
- Work with stakeholders to understand and interpret the analytics results and provide actionable business insights.
- Develop clear and concise visualizations to help stakeholders understand the data, its value and impact.
- Demonstrate understanding and motivations to collaborate with the wider data team.

**Qualifications**:
**What are we looking for?**
- Demonstrated inclusive and interpersonal attributes that connect you to our behaviours (we change the game, we own it, we step in, we are curious, we don’t take ourselves too seriously).
- Experience using SQL to work with data.
- An interest in reporting on advertising and an understanding of the different analytics techniques that can be applied to understand the effects of advertising.
- Strong business acumen and communication skills to present findings in an easy-to-understand way to inform data-driven decisions.
- An analytical and inquisitive mindset, pro-active approach, and the ability to work effectively in a team.
- Experience Using ThoughtSpot, Tableau, Google Analytics, cloud data warehouses such as Snowflake, Redshift or BigQuery would be valued.
- Any experience building data pipelines using Python or DBT is a huge plus, but not required.

Additional Information
**A few other things we want to let you know about...**
- We know how important keeping that balance between work/life is and have a range of flexible working options on offer, including part time work. We are open to this conversation during our recruitment process - if you want to know more just ask.
- We are a proud Circle Back Initiative Employer which means we are committed to responding to every job applicant.

So come and join our team - because every role is a big role in our plans to go big.