Google Customer Solutions (GCS) is looking for a Business Analyst to provide business critical insights using analytics, ensure cross-functional alignment of goals and execution, and help teams drive strategic partnerships and new initiatives forward. The role aims to identify opportunities through analysis, build consensus with stakeholders, and program manage cross-functional teams to drive GCS advertiser success and business growth.
Requirements
- 2 years of experience in statistical problem-solving and analyzing data sets using SQL or comparable coding language (e.g., Python, R, Java, C++).
- Experience with controlled experiments, causal studies, and communicating results to non-technical audiences.
- Experience working with executive stakeholders.
- Experience collaborating with multiple stakeholders across organizational boundaries.
- Experience in advertising, consultative sales, business development, or a digital media environment for an organization.
Responsibilities
- Work with large data sets.
- Solve investigative problems, applying advanced investigative methods as needed.
- Conduct analysis that includes problem formulation, experiment design, data gathering, analysis, deliverable creation, and presentation.
- Make business recommendations via presentations that effectively translate technical work to business partners and executives through synthesized analyses and visual storytelling.
- Develop and automate reports, iteratively build and prototype dashboards to help with reporting and investigative needs of the team and key stakeholders.
- Engage in ad-hoc analyses to understand business performance/user metrics and provide concise summaries and recommendations to management.
Other
- Bachelor's degree or equivalent practical experience.
- 4 years of experience in an analyst or insights role in a business context.
- 2 years of experience developing business strategies or managing cross-functional initiatives.
- Excellent communication and presentation skills with the ability to take ambiguous topics and turn them into compelling narratives for different audiences.
- You should be a self-starter who can tolerate ambiguity and demonstrate problem-solving leadership.
