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Data-analysis assistant
You prepare data, build simple dashboards and answer recurring business questions with numbers.
- Beginner-friendly
- Some experience helps first
- Experience
- Some experience helps
- Education
- Certificate or diploma helps
- Portfolio
- Portfolio expected
- Communication
- Strong written English
- Technical difficulty
- High
- Typical preparation time
- 12–20 weeks of focused preparation
Common tasks
- Cleaning and joining datasets
- Building dashboards and recurring reports
- Answering ad-hoc analysis requests
- Documenting metric definitions
Transferable skills you may already have
- Analysis
- Attention to detail
- Research
- Numeracy
Remote-work skills this role needs
- Written analysis summaries
- Documentation
- Async stakeholder questions
Role-specific skills
- Spreadsheets
- SQL basics
- Data visualisation
- Metric definition
Recommended tools
- Excel or Google Sheets
- SQL
- Looker Studio or Power BI
- Python (optional)
Suggested practice projects
- Publish a dashboard from a public dataset with a written interpretation
- Write a short analysis answering one specific business question
Readiness checklist
- I can explain what this role does day to day
- I have practised with: Excel or Google Sheets, SQL, Looker Studio or Power BI
- I have at least two portfolio pieces published
- My CV uses the keywords for this role
- I have prepared answers to the interview questions below
Common job titles and search keywords
Data-analysis assistantJunior data analystReporting analystSQLdashboarddata cleaningreportingLooker Studio
Likely interview questions
- Walk me through how you would investigate a sudden drop in a metric.
- How do you check that your analysis is correct?
CV guidance
Link dashboards or write-ups; state the tools and the question each answered.
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