The Business Data Analyst supports a business team’s ability to leverage data in support of business monitoring and decision management.
Requirements
- Experience building data queries using SQL in order to join, filter, cleanse and aggregate data; understanding of how GUI-driven applications apply SQL concepts to do the same
- Experience creating data visualizations/dashboards that highlight trends and patterns with the ability to monitor business performance against KPIs
- Experience using data exploration and analysis platforms such as Cognos Analytics, Tableau, PowerBI or similar
- Familiarity with data modeling concepts and relational database structures
- Ability to analyze and document business requirements, inclusive of needs and expectations
- Expert level skills in Excel
Responsibilities
- Applies a range of analytics and data management techniques to generate accurate data and relevant insights, including the creation of visualizations and dashboards to optimize business decisions and outcomes.
- Engage with business teams to clarify needs and define business requirements for data analysis in support of business optimization and decision-making
- Perform data exploration and analysis to identify and interpret trends and patterns in datasets
- Create dashboards, visualizations and reports to support business performance monitoring to support stakeholders’ ability to be data driven
- Work collaboratively with the enterprise analytics & information management team to articulate business needs
- Contribute to data inventory and stewardship efforts, including contributions to metadata management, data profiling, data quality remediation and data cleansing
- Perform research within the business area to determine the appropriate definition and logic for cataloging and modeling data within the analytics ecosystem
Other
- Bachelor’s degree in statistics, analytics, mathematics, economics, computer science or related functional area; or equivalent experience
- 2+ years of demonstrated data analytics experience including experience querying and analyzing operational and/or financial data, generating insights and communicating those effectively with colleagues and leaders
- Effective written and verbal communication, presentation and analytical skills
