Business Analyst [AQ-15397]
Aquent · Beaverton, OR · Yesterday
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About the role
As a key contributor, you will be an integral part of a global team supporting critical business segments, working closely with regional teams and senior leadership. This highly collaborative environment values your ability to connect people, align around data, and drive clarity. Your work will directly shape how this leading organization understands its performance and plans for the future, influencing strategic decisions across a global enterprise and ensuring alignment across diverse teams.
Your impact and responsibilities
- Build compelling business stories by transforming complex financial and performance data into clear, executive-ready narratives and recurring updates, helping leadership understand trends, risks, opportunities, and their business implications.
- Lead the monthly business review process, including pulling and validating data, building content, facilitating discussions with global and regional teams, and driving the overall narrative.
- Manage reporting execution by creating timelines, coordinating inputs, ensuring data accuracy and alignment, and delivering polished, analysis-backed content.
- Ensure data accuracy by validating information, identifying gaps, reconciling inputs across teams, and collaborating with stakeholders to resolve disconnects, establishing a single source of truth.
- Facilitate cross-functional coordination, regularly engaging with a diverse group of stakeholders across global and regional teams and senior leadership to maintain alignment and progress.
Must-have qualifications
- Minimum 5+ years of experience in an analyst role.
- Proven ability to analyze data and craft clear, impactful stories.
- Strong skills in transforming raw data into concrete and explainable insights.
- Expert-level Excel skills, including pivot tables, formulas, VLOOKUPs, and advanced functions.
- Ability to transform data into effective visual representations (charts, dashboards, etc.).
- Demonstrated experience in building polished decks and executive presentations.
- Comfort in managing multiple workstreams and priorities simultaneously.
- Ability to work effectively within a complex, matrixed organizational structure.
- Detail-oriented mindset coupled with strong organizational discipline.
- Genuine curiosity about data and the insights it reveals.
- Strong communication skills and the ability to influence across various levels of the organization.
- Collaboration instincts—you thrive working with cross-functional teams.
- The ability to turn ambiguity into clarity and complexity into actionable insights.
Nice-to-have qualifications
- Familiarity with AI tools and/or Tableau for data visualization.
- Experience delivering or leading monthly business reviews.
- Background in sales analytics or business planning environments.