eCornell Sr. Data Analyst (Remote)

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• Cornell's impressive educational benefits include tuition-free Extramural Study and Employee Degree Program, tuition aid for external education, and Cornell Children's Tuition Assistance Program

Department 

As Cornell University’s online learning unit, eCornell delivers online professional certificate courses to individuals and organizations around the world. Courses are personally developed by Cornell faculty with expertise in a wide range of topics, including data analytics, management, marketing, human resources, leadership, and STEM. Students learn in an interactive, small cohort format to gain skills they can immediately apply in their organizations, while earning a professional certificate from Cornell University. eCornell has offered online learning courses and certificate programs for 15 years to over 130,000 students at more than 2,000 companies.

The Opportunity:

Reporting to the Sr Director, Finance & Administration, this position serves as lead to the finance and business analysis team at eCornell.   This role will lead the organization towards sustainable data and reporting practices to ensure efficiencies.  This requires a macro understanding of how analytics and reporting contributes to the overall goals at eCornell and how all the pieces work together.  This role is an analytics and metrics partner for units within the Office of External Education and eCornell. This requires defining business function needs, project scoping, determining the most efficient technological tools, creating the necessary applications and documenting the processes. 

Responsibilities include using a variety of data mining/data analysis methods to build and implement dashboards, models and algorithms that can help stakeholders discover insights and optimize business outcomes. In addition, will build, and operationalize reporting tools, pull and analyze data, and create meaningful reports to drive informed, effective decisions. 

What you will do:

• Implement and automate KPIs as set forth by the executive leadership team for all operational units and eCornell, create dashboards for easy access, review results and make recommendations on actions.

• Lead cross functional analyst meetings to ensure shared understanding and best practices. Provide direction on system enhancements and troubleshoot problems as they arise. 

• Serve as a subject matter expert to develop and cross train analysts to strengthen the team's skill set.

• Advocate for eCornell needs, partner with IT on the data structure models that will support all units within eCornell. Serve as liaison to advocate for eCornell needs.

• Provide a solution-oriented approach to problem solving and decision making. effectively communicate with members of the IT team including data architects, programmers, and management.

• Work with IT to translate business requirements into appropriate data models and processes.

• Design and conduct qualitative analytical research and ad hoc queries in support of planning and decision making.

• In partnership with departments, define reporting needs and project scope, and produce reporting that meets the partner needs. As needed, work with IT resources to assure they can provide appropriate data collection and systems solutions for th