Somebody whose job is to provide analytics or research should always be someone who is very good at quantitative analysis. They should be good with math and numbers, because their job is to analyze a business. The same goes for research. A good researcher is good at math because they have to analyze large datasets. This person would also be pretty detail-oriented because they need to make sure that they are not making small mistakes, as small mistakes could result in poor decisions that come out of their analysis.
Does that make sense?
