Senior Business Analyst

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Position Purpose:

The Senior Business Analyst will work with the Core Services Line Review team to provide subject matter expertise, project management, and analytical support to install program strategy. The Senior Business Analyst will also have primary responsibility for the development and maintenance of business strategies and dashboards for projects, initiatives, and/or categories, leveraging proven technical abilities to synthesize complex analytical tasks into easily understood data-driven stories. This individual will act as a strategic thought partner on category strategy and will work collaboratively to create new analytical processes on diverse datasets to solve issues facing the business. This person should be able to effectively communicate with teams and leaders, review and understand sales/financial data, and identify business trends. This role will prepare/deliver insights and recommendations based on analyses to senior leadership. The Senior Business Analyst also continually seeks out opportunities to learn new and hone existing technical skills (e.g. writing SQL/code, statistics, etc.).

Key Responsibilities:

• 50% Lead all phases of a project's life cycle including defining the business need, establishing criteria and business requirements, understanding the impact to the business and designing and rolling out the project
• 25% Serve as a subject matter expert and perform research and/or analysis within assigned projects or category of business
• 25% Establish and report on metrics of assigned projects or categories to gauge business value

Direct Manager/Direct Reports:

• Reports to Manager/Sr. Manager
• No associates report to this role on a permanent basis, but requires the technical leadership of a project work team: may select team members and assess capabilities, provide technical training, provide information necessary to meet work, project or program objectives, evaluate program or project performance.

Travel Requirements:

• Typically requires overnight travel less than 10% of the time.

Physical Requirements:

• Most of the time is spent sitting in a comfortable position and there is frequent opportunity to move about. On rare occasions there may be a need to move or lift light articles.

Working Conditions:

• Located in a comfortable indoor area. Any unpleasant conditions would be infrequent and not objectionable.

Minimum Qualifications:

• Must be eighteen years of age or older.
• Must be legally permitted to work in the United States.

Preferred Qualifications:

• A thorough understanding and work experience with SQL Server, Google Cloud Platform (GBQ), Tableau

• Work experience in data mining, statistical analysis, and/or modeling
• Strong analytical skills including demonstrated aptitude with financial analysis and ability to generate insight from large and complex data sets
• Strong communication skills including the ability to effectively articulate viewpoints to executive leadership and ability to write compelling executive level presentations
• Strong project management skills and ability to effectively handle multiple priorities and deadlines simultaneously

Minimum Education:

• The knowledge, skills and abilities typically acquired through the completion of a bachelor's degree program or equivalent degree in a field of study related to the job.

Preferred Education:

• No additional education

Minimum Years of Work Experience:

• 3

Preferred Years of Work Experience:

• No additional years of experience

Minimum Leadership Experience:

• None

Preferred Leadership Experience:

• None

Certifications:

• None

Competencies:

• Strong project management skills, including strong process orientation, ability to work and lead cross functional teams, strategic thinking and creative problem solving skills.
• Analytical; Extensive knowledge of statistical methods and modeling
• Ability to establish priorities and procedures for accomplishing work within established deadlines; ability to lead multiple projects and manage toward deadlines and deliverables
• Strong communication and presentation skills, including ability to interact at Officer level; ability to negotiate and persuade
• Proven success in increasing management roles handling multiple projects with competing deadlines.
• Ability to assimilate