Junior Associate

**Job Title - Junior Associate - Reporting**

**Career Level - C1**

**About Astrazeneca**:
AstraZeneca is a global, science-led, patient-focused biopharmaceutical company that focuses on the discovery, development, and commercialization of prescription medicines for some of the world’s most serious disease. But we’re more than one of the world’s leading pharmaceutical companies. At AstraZeneca we’re dedicated to being a Great Place to Work.

**Who we are**:
The Global Business Service (GBS) team sits within Finance at AstraZeneca and is a dynamic and results-oriented environment and provides a range of enterprise-wide services. We dare to change the way we work by freeing up the business to push the boundaries of science to deliver life-changing medicines. We aim to do this by freeing up time, freeing up money, protecting AZ’s value and providing new capabilities.

**What we do**:
A trusted partner to the business, we’re on a mission to make AstraZeneca more agile, efficient and effective. Through our hybrid model of in-house delivery centers and service towers across the globe, we’re reimagining how we work. Here we drive new ways of working and operating models, process simplification and innovative solutions, whilst ensuring that automation and data is at the heart of everything.

**How we do it**:
Be part of a team building a community. We interact with diverse cultures and perspectives and are united by our sense of belonging. This is the place to learn and grow together.

**Why we love it**:

- As a growing multi-national company, there’s so much potential to develop. Embrace opportunities at a global business that’s facing new and varied challenges. This is the place to build an exemplary, international CV.
- A fun place to be, we’re creating community hubs that build partnerships, not just working relationships.
- We’re on an exciting journey to take our team to the next stage. This is the place to leave a legacy behind.

**About the role**:

- The Junior Reporting Associate will prepare data-driven insights for business decision-makers to help develop business intelligence, optimize effectiveness and/or predict business outcomes. The role will enable the identification, analysis and interpretation of trends or patterns and prepare ongoing reports and data visualizations to aid in data storytelling within defined scope, using established tool and standards. This role will also build Data Analysis skills and experience whilst performing simple Data Analysis tasks under supervision.
- The Junior Reporting Associate works under the supervision of more senior analysts on simple-to-medium complexity data analysis and visualization challenges. Accountabilities include:

- Create various types of reports and visualizations to identify trends, patterns and key performance indicators related to business activities: sales, marketing, operations, and other processes.
- Design and develop standardized and ad hoc reports, dashboards, and visualizations for business collaborators.
- Define and understand analysis requirements and be able to identify appropriate data sources.
- Clearly and objectively communicate insights and results, as well as their associated uncertainties and limitations.
- Translate business problems into the appropriate analytics problem and solutions using established frameworks and tools.
- Understand Risk, Assurance, Privacy, Information Security and Regulatory policies to ensure data and information controls are in place and adhered to
- Build effective relationships with established range of partners to ensure utilization and value of information resources and services. Clearly and objectively communicate results, as well as their associated uncertainties and limitations.
- Implement working practices to ensure that work is delivered to robust quality standards and aligned to defined governance frameworks and policies.
- Handle simple ad hoc requests of data (sourcing, extraction, profiling, integration) to support Data Science model generation and business insight.

**ESSENTIAL SKILLS AND EXPERIENCE**:

- Proficient, with 2+ years of recent experience in data analysis tools such as Excel, PowerPoint, VBA, Power BI, SQL, Python, AWS, Databricks, Microsoft Office, ETL
- Familiarity with database systems (e.g., SQL, NoSQL, graph)
- Demonstrable ability to draw conclusions from data and communicate in a succinct fashion to partners.
- Ability to work well in and across diverse global teams.
- Excellent communication and presentations skills
- High degree of accuracy with attention to detail
- Demonstrated ability to meet strict deadlines.
- Strong analytical ability
- English (fluent written and spoken)
- Ability to work well in a team.
- Creativity and solution-oriented approach
- Ability to work under time pressure and in changing circumstances.

**WHY JOIN US?**

We’re a network of high-reaching self-starters who contribute to something far bigger. We enable Ast