Reporting Analyst
Also known as: MIS Executive · MIS Analyst · Reporting Executive
Prepares regular reports and dashboards that show how a business or team is performing.
What you’d do
Reporting analysts build the regular reports and dashboards a business uses to track sales, operations or finance. They work in companies, shared-service centres and analytics teams, spending the day pulling data, cleaning it, updating dashboards and answering questions about the numbers.
- Pulls data from systems and sheets
- Builds recurring reports and dashboards
- Checks data for errors
- Shares reports with managers
How you get in
Freshers often enter as MIS executives or junior analysts in shared-service and analytics firms, where strong Excel is the main screening skill. Learning SQL and one dashboard tool, and showing a small portfolio of reports, makes applications more concrete.
Salary in India
Fresher salary over the years
middle of the 0–1 yr range, ₹ lakh a year
Fewer than two years of fresher data so far — the trend shows once there are two.
Skills you’ll use
From our guide · a curated list is coming
- Advanced Excel: pivots, lookups, formulas
- Writing SQL queries to pull data
- Building dashboards in Power BI or Tableau
- Checking data for errors and inconsistencies
- Explaining trends to non-technical teams
About this field · for freshers
Job openings by year
Is demand growing?
Not added yet.
Competition3
How many graduates enter each year?
BBA graduates in 2023-24 at institutions that reported to AISHE — everyone finishing that degree, not only those entering this role.
Who hires
IT firms, banks, government, startups?
Not added yet.
Where the jobs are
Which cities?
Not added yet.
Women in the field3
Is it diverse?
Share of women among BBA graduates in 2023-24 — the entry degree, not people already working in this role.
At a glance
- Much of the work is recurring weekly and monthly reporting.
- Common next steps: data analyst, business analyst or BI developer.
- Automation tools are reducing purely manual report-making, so query and dashboard skills matter more.
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