Office - Business Analyst

Summary

The Business Analyst will be responsible for the creation of impactful visualizations and reporting through the collection, standardization, analysis, synthesis, and automation of critical business data in an ongoing effort to increase customer satisfaction and drive business profitability and other objectives. They will develop and monitor data quality metrics and ensure business data and reporting needs are met. The successful candidate will have a strong analytical mindset, excellent interpersonal skills, and the ability to work in a fast-paced environment.

Key Responsibilities

• Engages with sales, operations, and supply chain business leaders to understand business information needs and objectives.
• Exercises independent judgement and decision making in the researching, analyzing, synthesizing, and visualizing of data to create awareness of key performance metrics, business challenges, and other critical reporting to enable thoughtful, data-driven decisions.
• Exercises discretion and independent judgement in selecting and applying the most suitable analytical tools for both routine and ad-hoc analyses, enabling automation, speed, and accuracy.
• Support business leader data requests and routine performance reporting.
• Work closely with stakeholders to prioritize business and information needs, standardizing and automating reports that monitor critical business performance metrics.
• Identifies, collects, and transforms raw data into meaningful information that can be used to drive business strategies and decision making.
• Design, develop, and deploy business analytics interactive dashboards and reports that provide actionable information & insight
• Makes business direction recommendations and creates business options and alternatives based on insights & findings derived from analytics
• Identifies, defines, and delivers new processes or process improvements (efficiency, accuracy, understandability, usefulness, etc.) based on data-driven insights
• Creates detailed business analysis, outlining problems, opportunities, and solutions.
• Documents and communicates results of all efforts effectively
• Leads projects that solve targeted business challenges, developing project plans and monitoring progress and performance to those plans (example: coordinating the development and overseeing the implementation of a Sales and Operations Planning Process)
• Ensures source data integrity, ensuring data & reporting consistency and alignment.
  
  

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in Business Administration, Finance, Computer Science, Information Technology, or related field.
• Proven experience as a Business Analyst or similar role
• Experience in data analysis tools and techniques with Excel, Power BI, Python (or R), and SQL proficiency
• Strong analytical skills with the ability to collect, organize, analyze, and disseminate significant amounts of information with attention to detail and accuracy.
• Knowledge of business structure and the ability to understand new business models quickly.
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills.
• Strong problem-solving skills and an analytical mind.
• Able to work independently and with others.
  
  

Physical Demands

While performing the duties of this job, the employee is regularly required to talk and hear. The employee frequently is required to stand; walk; use hands to finger, handle or feel; and reach with hands and arms. The employee may be required to sit for prolonged periods.

Working Conditions

Heated and air-conditioned office.