BUSINESS ANALYST

We are looking for passionate individuals who are inquisitive, articulate, and technically minded with keen business instinct and exceptional interpersonal skills. A successful Business Analyst at Digital Factory will transform data into meaningful information and presentable analytics, and translate analytics into actionable language that guides business decisions.

This is a 6–9 month internship with the possibility of extension and/or salary based on performance, job requirements, and availability. Reports to: Lawrence Griffith, Executive. Location: Chicago, Illinois.

About Us

Our team's digital inventiveness and mobile location expertise creates brand stories that produce results. We are seasoned professionals with experience in marketing, technology, mobile, and beyond. Our skills include micro-fencing, mobile strategy, data analytics, and more.

Responsibilities

• Create detailed business analyses, outlining problems, identifying opportunities, and proposing solutions to achieve organizational goals.
• Analyze organizational data and identify the underlying principles, reasons, or facts that explain the data.
• Synthesize findings from analyses of organizational data and create data-based verbal/written recommendations for upper management.
• Communicate with customers, competitors, suppliers, professional organizations, and others to maintain familiarity with related industry or business trends.
• Compose presentations using communications technology including PowerPoint, speak articulately, and engage audiences.
• Establish and maintain interpersonal relationships with a wide range of teams, including senior management.
• Other duties as assigned.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in a related field including, but not limited to, Accounting, Finance, or Information Technology.
• Currently enrolled in or a current graduate student in a related field including, but not limited to, Accounting, Business, Finance, or Information Technology.

Skills

• Proven presentation skills and proficiency in Microsoft PowerPoint to present data-based reports.
• General proficiency in computer technology and various Microsoft Office applications.
• Systems analysis skills—determining the ideal state of a functioning system and how changes in conditions, operations, and the environment will affect system outcomes.
• Time management skills.
• Ability to speak clearly and express complex ideas orally.
• Proven problem-solving and deductive reasoning skills.

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience in Product Management or Systems/Business Analysis.
• Previous experience related to data collection, analysis, and reporting.
• 1 or more years of experience in a B2B role with a focus on client success, technical support, or product support (B2C experience is a plus).
• Experience leading and developing high-performing teams.