Data analyst resume examples for graduate, product and senior roles

Flinders University · Business analytics major

• GPA 6.2 / 7
• Topics: Statistics for Business, Database Systems, Predictive Analytics, Data Visualisation

Linebrook Freight · Adelaide, SA

Summer internship with the operations reporting team of a regional freight carrier.

• Reconciled 18 months of delivery records from two dispatch systems, removing 12,400 duplicate rows.
• Built a daily Power BI report of late deliveries and route exceptions for operations managers.
• Found 9% of late deliveries logged against the wrong depot and helped dispatch fix the default.
• Documented the 20 report fields and presented weekly findings to the operations and finance leads.

Tools: SQL, Python, Power BI, Excel

Capstone project · Python, pandas, SQL, Tableau

Anonymised engagement data, analysed for an academic panel studying first-year retention.

• Built Python notebooks joining enrolment, attendance and learning-platform data for 3,200 students.
• Described three patterns linked to withdrawal, with confidence intervals and a clear note that the data could not show cause.
• Presented a Tableau dashboard and recommendations to a five-person academic panel.

Rippleway · Sydney, NSW

Savings and budgeting app with about 450,000 monthly active users; embedded with four product squads.

• Defined the activation and 30-day retention metrics used by four product squads and the leadership dashboard.
• Analysed six onboarding experiments; the highest-performing treatment improved activation by 14% and was rolled out to all new users.
• Added dbt tests to the product event models, which reduced dashboard defects reported by stakeholders by 36% over two quarters.
• Estimated sample sizes and minimum detectable effects before each experiment launched, and stopped two tests that could not reach a useful result.
• Audited 180 tracked events with engineering, removed 40 that nothing used and documented the rest in the event catalogue.
• Ran Looker training for 30 product managers and designers, which moved routine funnel questions out of the analyst request queue.

Tools: SQL, Python, BigQuery, dbt, Looker, Segment

Signalmere · Sydney, NSW

Streaming and podcast app; reporting for the product, content and marketing teams.

• Automated weekly engagement reporting with SQL and Python, cutting preparation from five hours to 45 minutes.
• Created a shared metric glossary that resolved recurring differences between product and marketing reports.
• Built content performance dashboards that the editorial team used to plan the weekly homepage.
• Answered about ten ad-hoc questions a week from the content team and turned the recurring ones into saved reports.

Tools: SQL, Python, Looker, BigQuery

Signalmere · Sydney, NSW

Graduate role in the reporting team during the move to BigQuery.

• Rebuilt the weekly subscriber report in SQL after the move to BigQuery, matching the old figures to within 0.5%.
• Documented 25 reporting tables for the analyst onboarding guide.

University of Wollongong · Statistics major

Fictional metropolitan health service · Melbourne, VIC

Public health service with three hospitals; performance and reporting team of six analysts.

• Rebuilt the emergency department length-of-stay report in SQL Server and Power BI, giving nurse unit managers a daily view by triage category.
• Reconciled elective surgery waitlist extracts against the state submission each month, resolving 140 mismatched records before the reporting deadline.
• Automated the monthly board performance pack with R and SQL, cutting preparation from three days to one and removing manual copy-and-paste steps.
• Analysed discharge timing across 52,000 inpatient episodes; the bed management team moved two daily discharge huddles earlier based on the findings.
• Wrote definitions for 35 performance indicators with clinical leads, ending recurring disputes over how readmissions were counted.
• Applied small-cell suppression and de-identification rules to every external report and logged each release in the data governance register.

Tools: SQL Server, R, Power BI, Excel

Fictional regional primary health network · Bendigo, VIC

Regional primary health network commissioning GP, mental health and after-hours services.

• Built Power BI dashboards tracking referrals and wait times for 14 commissioned mental health services.
• Linked de-identified GP practice data with service activity to report chronic disease screening rates by local government area for the planning team.
• Cut quarterly contract reporting effort by about 30% by standardising provider data templates and the validation rules agreed with each provider.
• Prepared the needs assessment tables and charts used in the regional three-year health plan.
• Answered data requests from program managers and turned the recurring ones into self-service reports.

Tools: SQL, Power BI, Excel

Fictional regional primary health network · Bendigo, VIC

Graduate role in the data and reporting team during a year of rapid service changes.

• Cleaned and loaded weekly service activity files from 20 providers into the reporting database.
• Maintained telehealth uptake trackers in Excel for the commissioning team's weekly planning meeting.

La Trobe University · Health information management major

Fernvale Home · Melbourne, VIC

Homewares retailer with 38 stores and an online store; customer insights team of four analysts.

• Automated the weekly customer performance pack with SQL and Python, cutting preparation from six hours to 40 minutes and removing two manual spreadsheet hand-offs.
• Built a self-service retention dashboard in Looker used by 45 product, marketing and operations stakeholders; it replaced 11 recurring ad-hoc requests.
• Added validation checks on customer segment tables, covering row counts, null rates and reconciliation to finance totals, which reduced recurring reporting defects by 31%.
• Analysed two onboarding tests designed by the product team, reporting each effect with a confidence interval and a plain-English recommendation.
• Mapped second-purchase timing across 2.3 million loyalty transactions; marketing now times its reactivation emails to the window the analysis found.
• Mentor two analysts on SQL style, documentation and stakeholder write-ups.

Tools: SQL, Python, Looker, BigQuery, Great Expectations

Mallee Marketplaces · Melbourne, VIC

Online marketplace for regional producers; analyst for the commercial and seller operations teams.

• Created customer cohorts in SQL that removed about 10 hours of manual segmentation work each week.
• Standardised the recurring commercial reports and documented source definitions with finance and marketing.
• Built a seller health report that flagged sellers with falling order volumes for the account team to contact.
• Analysed delivery-fee changes in two regions and reported the effect on order frequency to the commercial lead.
• Translated stakeholder questions into reproducible SQL analysis and one-page decision summaries.

Tools: SQL, Python, Tableau, PostgreSQL

Mallee Marketplaces · Melbourne, VIC

Graduate role in the commercial reporting team.

• Maintained weekly sales and category reports in Excel and Tableau for the commercial team.
• Moved three recurring reports from spreadsheets to scheduled SQL queries, removing about four hours of manual work a week.
• Checked weekly figures against the finance ledger before release and logged each difference with its cause.

Deakin University · Business analytics major