Principal Specialist, Business Analytics

Date Posted:

2024-04-03

Country:

United States of America

Location:

HNC01: UTAS Headquarters (HS) 2730 West Tyvola Road, Charlotte, NC, 28217 USA

Position Role Type:

Remote

The Collins Aerospace Central Strategy organization is seeking a Principal Specialist to join the Strategic Planning and Analytics team, supporting business analytics and strategic planning. The Analytics team produces a range of planned and ad-hoc analyses focused on understanding Collins performance and potential across its segments, leveraging internal data to prepare analyses and generate observations and recommendations for leaders. The team is responsible for understanding core drivers of Collins’ top-line and bottom-line performance and generating insights on cause and effect of internal and external factors on financial outcomes.

The Strategy Analyst plays an integral role in ensuring the quality, timeliness, and rigor of analyses and will gain exposure to all Collins Aerospace businesses and functions. Successful Analysts bring an acute attention to detail, commitment to quality, and natural curiosity. They will possess strong data analysis skills and financial acumen and are focused on continuous improvement. Outputs from this team’s analysis will shape business decisions across the company.

This individual will ideally work a hybrid role at our Charlotte, NC location.

Primary Responsibilities:

• Aggregate, condition, and analyze financial data (e.g., sales, EBIT, investments) received from partners across Collins to understand trends and correlations, generate scenarios, and draw conclusions on performance and opportunities.

• Collaborate closely across Strategic Planning team to analyze disparate datasets and projects to recognize patterns and understand relationship across various financial metrics.

• Develop a strong understanding of Collins’ portfolio as well as customers, channels, and end-markets.

• Synthesizes relevant information needed for high-level decision making, and succinctly communicates research findings in a clear and concise manner.

• Communicate and display findings via multiple output formats including PowerPoint, White Papers, E-mail summaries and dashboards (e.g., Tableau, PowerBI)

• Partner with strategic business units (SBUs) on future analytics projects and forecasting opportunities with internal and external data sets.

• Develops and contributes to the constant improvement of research processes, tools, templates and models, and outputs/visuals.

• Adjusts to shifting priorities, stringent deadlines, and last-minute requirements to accomplish tasks within non-negotiable corporate deadlines.

Basic Qualifications:

• Typically requires a University Degree and minimum 5 years prior relevant experience or an Advanced Degree in a related field and minimum 3 years of experience or in absence of a degree, 9 years of relevant experience 

• Must be authorized to work in the U.S. without sponsorship now or in the future. RTX will not offer sponsorship for this position 

• Experience with Power Point and Excel (V-LOOKUPS, pivot tables, formulas, etc)

• Experience using Excel for financial analysis

• Ability to maintain multiple projects simultaneously and meet tight deadlines while maintaining high standards for research quality and analysis

• Ability to communicate with all levels of the organization

Preferred Qualifications:

• SQL or Alteryx experience

• Experience with Tableau and dashboard development

• Experience in strategy, finance, or corporate development or consulting experience

• Demonstrated market or financial forecasting experience

• Degree in business related field or data analytics

Collins Aerospace, an RTX company, is a leader in technologically advanced and intelligent solutions for the global aerospace and defense industry. Collins Aerospace has the capabilities, comprehensive portfolio, and expertise to solve customers’ toughest challenges and to meet the demands of a rapidly evolving global market. 

Are you a strategic thinker who can see beyond the now? Be part of a team that is developing the strategy and direction of one of the biggest players in the aerospace industry. The Strategic Development team is a major influencer in the long-term vision of Collins Aerospace. Working together with teams across the company, we focus on strategic planning and analysis, mergers and acquisitions and revenue synergies. Join a team that has its pulse on the future of aerospace and watch your career take flight. 

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