Business Intelligence Analyst I - Automation

Job Posting End Date: August 28

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• Career advancement opportunities 

• Student loan repayment options 

• Tuition reimbursement

• Flexible work environments 

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General Summary:

General Summary
This is an individual contributor position that blends a technical mindset with financial acumen to develop and perform simple to moderately complex analyses under the supervision of a financial analysis director or manager. The incumbent will be expected to exhibit a proficiency with the tools and technical skillsets necessary for their area of responsibility.

The individual will collaborate with subject matter experts throughout the company, provide quality analytics, and exercise judgment to drive optimal solutions for various financial and business issues and areas. The ideal candidate will be a curious, creative, and analytical thinker who is passionate about leveraging data in tactical ways to help us solve our most challenging problems.

Key responsibilities of this position include:
• Extracting and transforming data from existing data stores to perform analyses. Development and maintenance of consumption-level data assets to support such analyses may be required.
• Assist in partnerships with functional areas throughout the company to seek out and generate improvements to business processes that drive increased business value.
• Analyzing operational and financial data by applying basic statistical and actuarial methods to provide recommendations for appropriate action. Preparing and delivering related reports in consultation with business partners internal and external to the Finance and Business Performance department.
• Supporting development and maintenance of measurement frameworks and associated visualizations/reporting that improve the company's ability to quantify value generated by business processes and strategic initiatives.

Principal Duties and Responsibilities

• Conduct data profiling and analysis to evaluate data sources to determine the best source for business information
• Acquiring, transforming and translating data into actionable dashboards, reports, algorithms or datasets with minimal support from mentor and manager
• Performing statistical analysis and presenting findings to guide and advise leadership
• Collaborate with data engineers to perform data validation and testing activities as appropriate
• Continuously develop and build upon existing knowledge of the insurance industry
• Continuously develop and build upon existing knowledge of data stored in company databases
• Works directly with internal customers to refine requirements and validate output to ensure solutions will meet expectations

Job Specifications

• Bachelors Degree preferred, and/or equivalent experience
• 2+ years experience with demonstrated success at an Associate level in a data analytics related field
• Knowledge of analytics programming languages (SQL/R/Python)
• Experience with modern BI toolsets (Tableau, Alteryx, PowerBI, or equivalent)
• Understanding of data profiling, statistical analysis and data modeling concepts
• Comfortable extracting and leveraging data out of data warehouse, transactional databases, object stores & API based environments
• Demonstrated ability to translate business needs into technical so