Data Analyst Resume Example
A data analyst resume works best when it shows the question you answered, the method you used and the decision it informed. Name your tools clearly and describe your analysis in plain language a hiring manager can follow.
Data Analyst
Data analyst with 4 years of experience turning retail and operations data into clear reports. Strong in SQL and dashboards, and used to explaining findings to non-technical teams.
Data Analyst
Birchwood Retail Group
Apr 2022 – Present
• Built weekly sales and stock dashboards in Tableau for 30 store managers • Wrote SQL to combine sales, returns and supplier data into one reporting table • Ran an A/B test on email offers and presented the findings to the marketing team
Junior Analyst
Clearwater Insurance
Sep 2020 – Mar 2022
• Cleaned and checked monthly claims data in Python and Excel • Automated a manual reporting task, saving several hours each month • Presented quarterly trends to the claims leadership team
BSc Mathematics and Statistics
University of Northfield
Sep 2016 – Jun 2020
How to write a data analyst resume
- For each project, state the business question, the data you used and what changed because of your analysis.
- Name your tools: SQL, Excel, Python, Tableau, Power BI or whichever the job lists.
- Describe dashboards by who uses them and for what decision, not just that you built them.
- Show you can communicate: mention presentations to non-technical stakeholders.
- Mirror the wording of the job advert for tools and skills where it is true.
Skills to include
- SQL
- Excel
- Python
- R
- Tableau
- Power BI
- Data cleaning
- Statistics
- A/B testing
- Data visualisation
- Reporting
- Stakeholder communication
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