Lena Fischer

Junior Data Analyst

Recent graduate turning messy data into clear decisions. I like dashboards that answer the question before it is asked.

Experience

Analytics EngineerHelloFresh
Berlin, GermanySep 2024Present
  • Own the marketing analytics data models in dbt, consolidating 40+ ad-hoc SQL scripts into a tested, documented layer refreshed hourly for 60 stakeholders.
  • Cut the weekly cohort-retention report from a 6-hour manual pull to a 3-minute scheduled run by rebuilding it as incremental dbt models on BigQuery.
  • Partner with lifecycle marketing on a shared metrics layer, taking conflicting revenue numbers across teams from a recurring dispute to zero in quarterly reviews.
  • Introduced data-quality tests that catch schema drift before it reaches dashboards, cutting broken-dashboard incidents by roughly 70%.
Data Analyst InternZalando
Berlin, GermanySep 2023Aug 2024
  • Built the self-serve returns dashboard in Tableau used daily by a 25-person logistics team, retiring a spreadsheet that cost two analysts a full day each week.
  • Ran the A/B analysis for the checkout redesign, reading out to product weekly and confirming a 4.2% lift in completed orders at 95% confidence.
  • Automated the weekly returns-rate report in Python, saving an estimated 6 analyst-hours per week.
Working Student, Business IntelligenceN26
Berlin, GermanyApr 2022Aug 2023
  • Maintained 30+ Looker dashboards for the customer-operations team, turning around ad-hoc SQL requests with a median under one day.
  • Segmented 1.2M active customers by support-contact behaviour, informing a staffing model that trimmed average queue time by 18%.
Data Analytics InternGetYourGuide
Berlin, GermanyJun 2021Sep 2021
  • Analysed booking-funnel drop-off across 12 markets, surfacing a mobile checkout bug that accounted for roughly 8% of abandoned bookings.
  • Prototyped a supplier-performance scorecard in SQL and Tableau later adopted by the marketplace team.
Research Assistant, Applied StatisticsTechnische Universität Berlin
Berlin, GermanyNov 2020May 2021
  • Wrote R simulations for a survival-analysis study, cutting a benchmark runtime from 40 minutes to under 5 with vectorised code.
  • Packaged the reproducible-analysis appendix for a submitted paper so every result rebuilt from raw data with a single command.

Projects

Skills

Languages & Query
PythonSQLR
Data Modelling & Warehousing
dbtBigQueryDuckDBSnowflake
BI & Visualisation
TableauLookerPower BIExcel
Analytics & Statistics
A/B testingExperiment designRegressionForecastingCohort analysis
Workflow & Tools
GitAirflowJupyterdbt Cloud

Education

Technische Universität BerlinB.Sc. Statistics
Berlin, GermanyOct 2020Jul 2024

Certifications

dbt Analytics Engineering Certificationdbt Labs
Feb 2025
Google Data Analytics Professional CertificateGoogle
Mar 2024
Tableau Desktop SpecialistTableau
Jun 2023

Awards

Best Bachelor Thesis in Applied StatisticsTechnische Universität Berlin
Jul 2024
2nd Place, Berlin Open Data HackathonTechnologiestiftung Berlin
May 2023

Languages

GermanNative
EnglishFluent (C1)
SpanishIntermediate (B1)

Volunteering

Volunteer MentorCode First Girls
Berlin, GermanyMar 2022Present
  • Mentor a cohort of women learning Python and SQL, running fortnightly office hours and reviewing their first data projects.
  • Have guided 20+ mentees through their first analytics portfolio piece, with several going on to junior data roles.