Business Intelligence Analyst

Woodward’s Diversity, Inclusion and Belonging Commitment

At Woodward, no matter where you are from, your physical appearance, or how you identify, you deserve the opportunity to reach your greatest potential. We are on a journey to achieve this as an organization and want to work closely with our members to set the right path.

We humbly acknowledge this will be an imperfect journey. Yet, we are steadfastly committed to embracing the power of diverse people, perspectives and experiences for our current members, attracting the best talent across our communities, and creating an inclusive and rewarding workplace for all.

Woodward supports our members’ wellbeing and regularly benchmarks with other companies in our industry to offer an extensive Total Reward package for this position. Salary will be determined by the applicant's education, experience, knowledge, skills, and abilities, as well as internal equity and alignment with market data.

Estimated annual base pay: $112,400(minimum) - $140,500(midpoint) - $168,600(maximum)

• All members included in annual cash bonus opportunity
• 401(k) match (4.5%)
• Annual Woodward stock contribution (5%)
• Tuition reimbursement and Training/Professional Development opportunities for all members
• 12 paid holidays, including floating holidays
• Industry leading medical, dental, and vision Insurance upon date of hire
• Vacation / Sick Time / Vacation Buy-up / Short Term Disability / Bereavement leave
• Paid parental leave
• Adoption Assistance
• Employee Assistance Program, including mental health benefits
• Member Life & AD&D / Long Term Disability / Member Optional Life
• Member referral bonus
• Spouse / Child Optional Life / Optional AD&D / Healthcare and Dependent Care Flexible Spending
• Voluntary benefits, including:
• Home / Auto Insurance discounts
• Whole Life Insurance / Critical Illness Insurance / Legal Assistance / Military Leave
  
  

Are you ready to make your mark? If you’re a Business Intelligence Analyst, we have an exciting opportunity for you. Analyzes quality business processes, functions, and results to determine the most effective reporting solutions using Power BI. This can involve working with management and key users to recognize and identify business opportunities. Solutions may require changes to existing systems, creation, updates and modifications to existing reports. May work with a team of developers, analysts and users, including multiple locations, for development of quality department business systems. Analyst must maintain a total Woodward perspective when selecting a solution and collaborate and drive to common business processes across the organization.

What You Will Be Doing

• Primary responsibility is analyzing business processes opportunities, and designing business systems
• Acts as a liaison between systems software development staff, management and system end users to provide effective solutions
• Provide follow up and closure to projects as well as on-going support
• Work with leaders to ensure project timelines fit within daily work assignments
• Formulates test plans, coordinates and facilitates software testing on larger projects
• Adhere to Woodward IT Development processes and procedures
• Support Power User Network by working with Process Owners to obtain direction and priorities, facilitating power user network meetings by location, coordinating training, resolving integration issues, software testing, and maintaining or preparing documentation
• Provides technical leadership by staying abreast of new technologies and recommending methods of applying them to business opportunities
• Act as a change agent within the business for adoption of process and/or IT system changes
• Provide technical support including working with IT
• Review system specifications for completeness and accuracy to ensure adequate information and justification are provided
• Facilitate and coordinate software testing on system or report changes
  
  

What We Are Looking For

• US – Bachelor's Degree in Arts/Sciences (BA/BS) BS or BA preferred
• 5+ years Functional module experience. Functional module would be area like Sales, Finance, Purchasing, etc. required
• 5+ years Business Objects experience required
• Experience with detailing program specifications and testing programs required
• Experience with giving direction to IT individuals and users required
• Experience implementing process and system changes where existing processes are in place required
• Expert understanding of business systems and manufacturing environments
• Understanding of ERP systems, such as SAP ECC, strongly preferred
• Expert understanding of system life cycle methodologies
• Demonstrates sound, logical thought processes and problem solving skills when producing system specifications.
• Ability to manage multiple priorities and tasks for self and team members
• Communicates and interacts well with all levels of the organization, in order to understand user requirements while providing advice, recommendations and instructions
• Provides excellent customer service
• Able to lead a team
• Demonstrated ability to manage large projects with cross-functional teams,
• Extensive understanding of DW principles
• Extensive understanding of SAP Data Warehouse reporting capabilities (BOBJ, LiveOffice, Xcelsius)
• Extensive understanding of DW reporting capabilities (BOBJ, LiveOffice, Xcelsius)
• Extensive understanding of Universes and underlying data structures
• ETL experience
• Strong presentation skills, including the ability to provide user training in a classroom environment
• Ability to create functional training materials for use by end users
  
  

Application window is anticipated to close 30 days from original posting date.

This information is provided in compliance with the Colorado Equal Pay for Equal Work Act and is the company’s good faith and reasonable estimate of the compensation range and benefits offered for this position. The compensation offered to the successful applicant may vary based on factors including experience, skills, education, location, and other job-related reasons.

This position requires use of information which is subject to the International Traffic in Arms Regulations (ITAR) and/or the Export Administration Regulations (EAR).   All applicants must be U.S. Persons within the meaning of the ITAR and EAR, or eligible to obtain all required authorizations from the U.S. Department of State and/or the U.S. Department of Commerce.  The ITAR defines a U.S. Person as a U.S. citizen or national, lawful permanent resident (i.e., 'Green Card holder'), or a protected person (e.g., asylee, or refugee).

Woodward is an Equal Opportunity Employer

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