Business Intelligence Analyst

Redmond, WA, United States

Business Intelligence Analyst

BCforward is currently seeking a highly motivated Business Intelligence Analyst remote opportunity.

Position Title: Business Intelligence Analyst

Location: Remote

Anticipated Start Date: ASAP

Please note this is the target date and is subject to change. BCforward will send official notice ahead of a confirmed start date.

Expected Duration: 12 Months

Job Type: Full time Contract

Pay Range: $60 to $65

Please note that actual compensation may vary within this range due to factors such as location, experience, and job responsibilities, and does not encompass additional non-standard compensation (e.g., benefits, paid time off, per diem, etc.).

Requirements:

Job Description:

Title: Business Intelligence Analyst

Location: Remote

Duration: 12 Months

Summary:

The main function of a Business Systems Analyst is to perform the analysis, design, implementation, modification, and daily functional support of all applications.

Job Responsibilities:

Understanding the Business

Builds understanding of the business across multiple areas, links internal business topics to relevant external trends, and anticipates business problems. Proactively anticipates business questions and identifies appropriate insights or plausible analytical solutions to suggest in response. May coach others to help them broaden business knowledge.

Expertise in Data Leverages appropriate types and sources of data and/or metrics, understands how business needs translate into data requirements and evaluates sufficiency of data sources, determines needs for integrating additional data, and identifies, anticipates, and addresses gaps and data quality issues with data providers, in partnership with other teams. Leverages relevant data, frameworks, and/or analyses from other teams, and ensures that data access and quality issues are addressed.

Data Analysis Applies expertise to determine ideal analytical tools and techniques to address business questions. Guides and partners with others to execute analyses, resolve analytical challenges, interpret results across relevant contexts, and provide actionable insights and recommendations to business stakeholders. Critically evaluates assumptions about data or analysis methods to ensure they are appropriate for answering business questions in context and provides feedback on features and functions of analytical tools (e.g., algorithms, statistical models) developed by Engineering or Data Science teams.

Presentation of Results Develops appropriate presentations that tell stories of analyses, including dashboards, reports, data visualizations, self-service platforms, slides, and talking points that highlight relevant insights. Synthesizes details across analyses and reporting platforms into a cohesive story that serves to inform business decisions and identifies opportunities to improve efficiency of reporting and presentations. Guides others to ensure presented results are accessible, and provide information accurately, clearly, and with sufficient relevance to influence decision making for intended audience(s).

Evaluation Determines factors and/or data types to include in the evaluation of the impact of business, product, and/or operational decisions that provide relevant assessments of impact. Ensures that evaluations can account for anticipated risks and applies learnings from previous evaluations. Synthesizes results across evaluation instances, identifies relevant connections to other work, and makes recommendations for next steps linked to strategic business goals.

Orchestration and Collaboration Leverages working relationships within and across teams to ensure quality data sources, methodologies, as well as the appropriate application of analytical tools and processes, and drives their adoption, to facilitate relevant insight generation, reporting, and interpretation. Proactively engages stakeholders to identify and act on opportunities to leverage resources and solutions that were instrumental to success in similar contexts, and consults across teams on decisions related to analyses, insights reporting, and/or their interpretation.

Improvement, Efficiency, and Innovation Identifies and promotes methods that create efficiency in core work related to analytics and reporting that are reusable, readily discoverable by decision-makers, self-service, and directed to meaningful interpretation of data that drive business decisions and impact. Recommends and socializes optimal methods for sharing, standardizing, and scaling insights. Evaluates the viability and relevance of automated methods for use in reporting, and/or analysis to recommend when they should become standard practices.

Qualifications:

Required/Minimum Qualifications Bachelor's Degree in Statistics, Mathematics, Analytics, Engineering, Computer Science, Marketing, Business, Economics or related field AND 4+ years' experience in data analysis and reporting, business intelligence, or business and financial analysis

OR Master's Degree in Mathematics, Analytics, Engineering, Computer Science, Marketing, Business, Economics or related field AND 2+ years' experience in data analysis and reporting, business intelligence, or business and financial analysis

OR equivalent experience.

Additional or Preferred Qualifications Bachelor's Degree in Statistics, Mathematics, Analytics, Engineering, Computer Science, Marketing, Business, Economics or related field AND 6+ years' experience in data analysis and reporting, business intelligence, or business and financial analysis.

OR Master's Degree in Mathematics, Analytics, Engineering, Computer Science, Marketing, Business, Economics or related field AND 4+ years' experience in data analysis and reporting, business intelligence, or business and financial analysis.

OR equivalent experience.

Candidate Requirements Years of Experience Required: 8-10 overall years of experience in the field.

Degrees or certifications required: degree is preference for this role.

Disqualifiers: CANDIDATES WITH LACK OF MS OFFICE SUITE, POWERBI, SAREPOINT.

Best vs. Average: The soft skills required for the candidate include the ability to work independently and provide recommended solutions, as well as being creative with solution and problem-solving. They should also be able to direct the team if the initial requests are off base to ensure the final solution is optimal. This implies strong communication skills, critical thinking, and the ability to guide projects towards successful outcomes. Ability to direct the team if they're off base with what is being requested

Performance Indicators: Performance will be assessed based on ability to work independently and quality of work.

Top 3 Hard Skills Required + Years of Experience

Minimum 4+ years' experience with POWERBI

Minimum 4+ years' experience with SHAREPOINT

Minimum 3-5 years' experience with RECOMMENDED SOLUTIONS

Benefits:

BCforward offers all eligible employees a comprehensive benefits package including, but not limited to major medical, HSA, dental, vision, employer-provided group life, voluntary life insurance, short-term disability, long-term disability, and 401k.

About BCforward:

Founded in 1998 on the idea that industry leaders needed a professional service, and workforce management expert, to fuel the development and execution of core business and technology strategies, BCforward is a Black-owned firm providing unique solutions supporting value capture and digital product delivery needs for organizations around the world. Headquartered in Indianapolis, IN with an Offshore Development Center in Hyderabad, India, BCforward's 6,000 consultants support more than 225 clients globally.

BCforward champions the power of human potential to help companies transform, accelerate, and scale. Guided by our core values of People-Centric, Optimism, Excellence, Diversity, and Accountability, our professionals have helped our clients achieve their strategic goals for more than 25 years. Our strong culture and clear values have enabled BCforward to become a market leader and best in class place to work.

BCforward is an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, or protected veteran status and will not be discriminated against based on disability.

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