Business Analytics Lead - Operations and Finance

Business Analytics Lead, Operations and Finance

Description

The Business Analytics Lead, Operations, will report to the Chief Data & Analytics Officer and be responsible for delivering business priorities and through testing and measurement, Insights, and Advanced Analytics. The role will work in a highly matrixed manner with the business– i.e. the leaders of the Operations and Finance teams.  This person will serve as the primary interface for delivering the Data & Analytics shared goals with these business units, contributing to delivering the budget, shared business priorities, and strategy.   This leader is also expected to act as a key stakeholder and partner supporting Learning Agenda development, and the shaping of the Company’s data & AI strategies and technology roadmap. 

What You Have

• Bachelor’s degree in computer science, Economics, Information Systems, Statistics, Operations Research, Applied Math, or another related field or equivalent work experience

• MBA or Masters, Applied Data Analytics preferred but not required

• 7+ years of experience using analytics and statistical methods to deliver business value in Operations and customer lifecycle management, preferably with some time spent in subscription-based companies, or consulting 

• 7+ years of experience managing the development of learning agendas and measurement

• 5+ years of experience in data science, and data analytics

• Expert experience with SQL, Python

• Experience with managing data scientists through development, deployment and operationalization of statistical models in a production environment

• Strong influencing and written/oral storytelling capability with proven experience working directly with business leaders

• A positive, collaborative attitude and hands-on style, someone used to work in a fast-paced environment

• The ability to evaluate processes and drive continuous improvement

What You’ll Do

• Working closely with the business leaders and their reports in building data driven strategy, insight and recommendations in line with the Company’s business priorities

• Be D&A’s point leader working with the business for the creation of learning agendas, test and learn setups, performance measurement and the development of so-what conclusions

• The role will oversee a team of analyst direct reports, as well as be the guide to D&A’s data scientists, BI & data engineers, and PMO leaders through discovery, development, prototyping and ultimately scaling of successful initiatives

• Integrate data collection, data quality, and advanced analytics output into application 

• Apply data mining techniques to uncover actionable business insights

• Establish, define the data governance created process and policies for your areas

• Ensure and improve data integrity, data accuracy, and data quality

• Oversee machine learning model development partnering with the data science team

• Partner with Technology teams, and D&A’s data engineering, data science, and business intelligence teams to build a scalable data infrastructure to support ai readiness 

• Identify and utilize 3rd party data sources to enhance analytics

• Manage executive level presentations and strategy discussions on findings and recommendations 

• Perform other duties as assigned