Junior Data Analyst

About this role

Many strategic choices look good on paper but fall apart when you look at the actual economics. Businesses often chase growth without realizing they are losing money on every sale, or they keep capital trapped in products that are not performing. We need a Junior Data Analyst to help us find these gaps. This role is about getting into the raw data to see where a business is actually leaking value and where the real opportunities are hidden.


About Blue Oak

• We provide commercial advice for situations where the answer is not obvious.
• Our team looks at pricing architectures, capital allocation, and fixed cost structures.
• We are skeptical by nature and prefer hard facts over corporate momentum.
• We don't just deliver advice and walk away; we test whether assumptions survive reality.
• We are a fully remote firm that values clear thinking and plain speaking.

The Role

• Organizing and cleaning raw client data to find the underlying story.
• Developing financial models that track unit economics and capital efficiency.
• Identifying specific areas where costs are higher than they appear on the surface.
• Comparing client growth assumptions against their actual historical performance.
• Providing the technical evidence needed to support or challenge a strategy.

A Typical Week

• You will spend time taking large, messy exports from different business systems and turning them into a clean format.
• You will sit with the consulting team to discuss why a certain business unit is losing money despite high sales.
• You will build simple, logical models in Excel or SQL that show how different pricing changes might affect profit.
• You will look for outliers in data that point to operational problems the client might have missed.
• You will write brief, factual summaries of your findings without using marketing language.

What We Need From You

• A high level of comfort with numbers and the ability to spot errors in your own work.
• The ability to use...