Data and Business Intelligence Senior Associate

Location:

For Those Who Work At Home - Various, Ohio 44144

ABOUT THE JOB (JOB BRIEF): The Senior Data & Business Intelligence Associate is primarily responsible for the sourcing, manipulation, preparation, and validation of data for consumption – which may be in the form of production reports or as analytical data sets to answer questions or to perform predictive analysis. The Senior Data & Business Intelligence Associate uses queries and data mining to produce more complex reports and descriptive analysis that provide answers to questions such as “How do I measure?” and “What happened?”. Through self-managed data sourcing projects, the Senior Data & Business Intelligence Associate should liaise between technology partners and the business to engineer data into insightful business intelligence solutions, process improvements / automations, and reports. Success criteria include: leveraging critical thinking, technical expertise, and anticipation of business needs from technology and business partners to provide reporting and analysis or implement process improvements; leading conversations with business partners and effectively communicate with all stakeholders; and providing solutions based on an understanding of impacts / intersections with other business partners and lines of business.

ESSENTIAL JOB FUNCTIONS:
• Provide moderate to more complex analysis and reports, leveraging critical thinking and business acumen to source and translate data into business intelligence insights, reports, and analysis that answer business problems
• Collaborate and lead conversations with business and technology partners to identify and understand analytic / business needs
• Automate and standardize reports for production
• Make process improvement suggestions
• Effectively communicate key points to respective stakeholders, with the right amount of detail
• Review work product of junior staff; provide input, direction, and mentorship

REQUIRED QUALIFICATIONS:
• Master’s degree (or its equivalent) in Data Analytics, Business Management, Finance, Economics, Engineering, Computer Science, Management Information Systems, or Statistics (or other related field)  with at least 4 years of relevant experience; or Bachelor’s degree (or its equivalent) in Data Analytics, Business Management, Finance, Economics, Engineering, Computer Science, Management Information Systems, or Statistics (or other related field) with at least 6 years of relevant experience
• Proficient in:
o Advanced Microsoft Excel / PowerPoint
o Intermediate/advanced query writing/coding including complex joins.  Python or SQL preferred.
o Intermediate/advanced data visualization
o Analytical programming languages
o Report and process automation

• Knowledge or Skill in:
o Process flow
o Project management

o Google Cloud technologies and tools
o Navigation of data warehouse and/or data supply chain

EXPECTED COMPETENCIES:
• Communication: Solid written and verbal communication skills; organizes material for brevity, persuasiveness, and impact; Effectively communicates key points to respective stakeholders, with the right amount of detail; Proactively shares information beyond those at the table who may have a need to know; Comfortable in situations where conflict is present; Demonstrated presentation development and delivery skills; Ability to create presentations that include the right data/information and tell the right story
• Leadership: Emerging leader across team; Serves as a role model – may coach and develop others; Provides direction / mentorship to junior staff
• Partnering / Influencing: Proven relationship building ability; Strong interpersonal skills; Can lead the conversation with business partners; Sought out to by business partners and team members; May coach and develop relationship building skills in others; Developing comfort with influencing and consulting typically with mid-level leaders
• Business Acumen: Understands assigned LOB strategy; Knows our industry, competition, and competitive environment; Possesses intellectual curiosity; Understands key drivers of financial results and business impact; Developing understanding of how business works
• Critical Thinking / Problem Solving: Leverages critical thinking and business acumen to provide solutions to increasingly more complex problems; Ties work with understanding of impacts / intersections with other business partners / LOB; A