Data Analytics Business Strategist

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Job Description:

We are seeking a highly experienced and strategic-minded individual to join our Crowe Consulting Data and Analytics team as a Business Strategist. In this role, you will be responsible for aligning client business strategies with the Crowe data and analytics solutions. In addition to managing the delivery of our current offerings, this position will also focus on understanding our client’s strategic value drivers, and identifying metrics and analytics that provide valuable business insights to help them achieve their objectives. This role will help lead client data management (people, process, and technology), engage directly with client functional business and technical leadership, help lead and execute complex data projects, communicate across multiple stakeholder groups, and help lead change within a client organization.

Key Responsibilities:

• Collaborate with clients to determine what drives their business, understand their business strategy and objectives to identify how we can support their goals
• Collaborate with stakeholders to gather and document business requirements for data initiatives
• Analyze source systems and to understand if current data sets will support client goals and objectives, and make recommendations to close the gaps where misalignment exists
• Analyze data sets to understand what insights can be achieved to best inform business decisions and strategies
• Develop and maintain strong internal team relationships, proactively providing thought leadership
• Work closely with internal teams to design and deliver analytics that provide actionable insights to clients
• Track team assignments and deliverables to ensure project goals and expectations are met Develop and maintain strong client relationships, proactively providing thought leadership
• Communicate expectations to clients and team throughout
• Identify opportunities to introduce additional Crowe solution areas to clients, leveraging your understanding of their business needs and objectives.

Other responsibilities include helping to deliver client value across our core offerings:

• Data Strategy Roadmap
• Data Lake & Analytics Build-out
• AI Readiness Assessments
• Data Quality and Management
• Data Governance and Quality
• Crowe Clearview Analytics ongoing support

Qualifications

• Master's degree in Business, Analytics, Statistics, or a related field.
• 8+ Years of Business Analysis experience
• 5+ years of Consulting experience
• 5+ years of experience in data analysis and business intelligence
• Familiarity in budgeting and forecasting.
• Knowledge of data security and privacy regulations.
• Experience with cloud-based data platforms is a plus.
• Experience in a specific industry is a plus.
• Willing to travel, likely around 30%.

Data Strategy Roadmaps

We uncover key business objectives, understand what drives the business forward.  We analyze the current state of data and outline a strategy of many data-related initiatives to drive results.  We assess the risk and potential business benefit of each project and create a phased approach for implementation on these critical initiatives.  Data initiatives may include assessment of data quality, developing master data management and governance strategies, cloud migration, EDW or Data Lake build, dashboard development, training and development, hiring, and engaging third parties for data-related services.

EDW/Data Lake & Analytics Build-out

We work in client environments ranging in maturity levels to determine if the appropriate action is to build onto existing infrastructure as is, recommend a retrofit of existing infrastructure to bring it to a suitable state to support a scalable EDW or build an EDW from the ground up.  We gain connectivity to all key data sources and review databases for structure and integrity.  We identify relationsh