Data Processor

Overview

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Potentiam is a global provider of highly qualified professionals to European SMEs from our offices in Romania, South Africa and India. Potentiam works with clients in finance, energy, leisure, marketing, business services and technology industries, providing technical, professional multi-lingual highly motivated staff, most of whom have had experience of working for international companies. Staff cover a wide range of roles from accounting, marketing, data management, HR, sales / account management, engineering, technology, and operations. Potentiam manages our staff’s career development and personal development training, all infrastructure, HR and payroll with our clients directly managing day-to-day staff responsibilities and role training and development.

Our client is an award-winning global research and insights consultancy, who help guide their client’s strategy using innovative market research methodologies and technologies. The agency has offices in London, New York, Amsterdam & Cape Town, servicing a growing client base of major brands, leading agencies, charities, and governments around the world. Accurate and timely data rests firmly at the heart of everything they do. To support the agency’s ambitious growth plans, the client has set up a Centre of Data Excellence in Cape Town and plan to grow the team here significantly.

You will be joining a Data team led by the head of data in London, and train up under his supervision to begin supporting the team of consultants by providing access to fast and accurate data in the form of excel tables and / or dashboards.

Responsibilities

Duties and Responsibilities :

Your role is vital to the smooth running of the projects, as it immediately follows fieldwork (survey data collection) and leads into our analysis and reporting stage. Within your role, you will be required to undertake the following core functions using Excel and bespoke software :

Cleaning

• Ensuring the raw data from fieldwork is excellent quality
• Checking data for inconsistencies and / or bad quality
• Liaising on next steps with the project manager

Manipulation

Reporting

Using bespoke software to create easy to understand tables for our consultants

The majority of the job involves quantitative data from surveys, with ad hoc requests that may arise from innovative methodologies. The client currently scripts and conducts data processing for all surveys in-house, allowing you to learn from the existing team.

Progression opportunities

Must have skills

Desire to learn software packages to manipulate data : you will use our own software for data processing, so a willingness to learn, explore and master new ways of working is key.

Good to have skills

Knowledge of VBA / Excel macros is advantageous but not essential.

Other skills and requirements

The personal information you provide in connection with the submission of your job application or otherwise as part of a recruitment process is used and stored for use only in the execution of a recruitment process and in connection with a possible recruitment. Our contact person for questions regarding processing of personal data in connection with HR activities is Chantal Endemann, who can be contacted on email at The disclosure of your personal information to any third parties is in accordance with written agreements with the parties concerned that comply with the applicable rules, including confidentiality requirements and deletion of information after the recruitment process ends as per our data storage policy.

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