Data & Business Intelligence Analyst
UPS — Chennai, Tamil Nadu
₹4–10 LPA (HireSetu estimate) · Entry level · Freshers eligible · Full-time
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Quick answer: A fresher data and BI role in Chennai where SQL is the entry bar, but the requirement that actually filters people is documented experience writing software requirements and test specifications, which is a lot to ask of someone with no work history.
From UPS' job posting
JOB SUMMARY
This position provides strategic, analytical, and technical support for data and business intelligence activities. This position leverages data to gain key insight into business opportunities, and effectively presents these insights to business stakeholders. This position participates in the creation, distribution, and delivery of analytics reports, tables, graphs, and communication materials that effectively summarize findings and support recommendations.
RESPONSIBILITIES
- Designs, develops, and maintains reports and analytical tools and performs ongoing data quality monitoring and refinement.
- Identifies and analyzes errors and inconsistencies in the data and provides timely resolutions.
- Translates data results into written reports, tables, graphs, and charts to convey information to management and clients.
- Creates ad hoc reports and views on a frequent basis to assist management in understanding, researching, and analyzing issues.
- Uses data mining to extract information from data sets and identify correlations and patterns.
- Organizes and transforms information into comprehensible structures.
- Uses data to predict trends in the customer base and consumer populations and performs statistical analysis of data.
- Identifies and recommends new ways to support budgets by streamlining business processes.
Requirements
- Strong analytical skills and attention to detail.
- Proven ability to quickly learn new applications, processes, and procedures.
- Able and willing to collaborate in a team environment and exercise independent judgement.
- Excellent verbal and written communication skills.
- Ability to form good partner relationships across functions.
- Intermediate knowledge of SQL and tools that leverage SQL language
- Demonstrated experience in writing software requirements and test specifications, as well as using data to drive business decisions.
- Bachelor’s degree, international equivalent, or at least 3 years of relevant UPS experience.
Preferences
- Bachelor's Degree (or internationally comparable degree) – Business/Economics, Computer Science, Engineering, Marketing, MIS, Mathematics, or related discipline.
- Experience with data warehousing, data science software, or similar analytics/business intelligence systems.
Text from UPS' official job posting, formatted by HireSetu. The employer's own page is the final word on details.
A zero-year role with one grown-up requirement
Intermediate SQL is the technical bar, and you can test yourself against it this week: joins, aggregations, a query that has to hold up on a table with a few hundred thousand rows. The line that trips people up sits further down the requirements, where UPS asks for demonstrated experience writing software requirements and test specifications. For a listing that says 0 years, that means someone who wrote down what a report should output before building it, and how they would check it was correct. A final-year project with a requirements document and a few test cases covers it. A folder of dashboards with no write-up behind them does not.
The degree list is wide, taking in economics, marketing, maths, engineering and MIS, so no single course gets you through the door.
Where the hours go
Ad hoc reports and views are listed as frequent, sitting alongside the reports you design and maintain. Read that as a base of scheduled reporting plus a steady stream of one-off pulls from managers who need a number explained. A good share of the week lands in data quality: monitoring datasets, tracing errors and inconsistencies, resolving them. Expect more time working out why two tables disagree than drawing the chart.
The finished output goes to management and clients as written reports, tables and graphs. Anyone who has built a chart that needed a paragraph of explanation to make sense will know how quickly that shows.
Ask whether the analyst sits in a dedicated BI group or inside an operations team, because it decides where your requests come from.
The direction it points
Data warehousing and data science software appear as preferences, and that is a fair signal of where this kind of work heads. The usual next step from a BI analyst seat is learning the warehouse model sitting behind the reports and picking up a scripting language for the analysis SQL handles badly. The other path is business-facing: the listing has you recommending process changes that support budgets, which builds a different kind of CV over two or three years.
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