Business Data Analyst

About the role

The Business Data Analyst supports a business team's ability to leverage data in support of business monitoring and decision management. They apply 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.

Responsibilities

• 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 and stakeholders' ability to be data-driven
• Collaborate 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
• Conduct user acceptance testing to confirm data output and capabilities meet business expectations and align to business processes
• Identify and troubleshoot data discrepancies and inconsistencies, and partner with the enterprise analytics & Information management team to detect issues and automate resolutions
• Maintain high standards and adhere to all enterprise policies and guidelines regarding data security and privacy, data management, data quality, and data governance; regard data as an enterprise asset that is to be protected and used both strategically and appropriately

Requirements

• Typically has the following skills or abilities:
• 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
• 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
• Familiarity with data modeling concepts and relational database structures
• Ability to analyze and document business requirements, inclusive of needs and expectations
• Effective written and verbal communication, presentation and analytical skills
• Expert-level skills in Excel

Qualifications

• For roles that are remote (i.e., Work From Home (WFM)) or hybrid (i.e., partial onsite at a VSP location and WFM), must demonstrate a high level of engagement in virtual environments, including maintaining camera presence during meetings to support effective communication and team alignment

Skills

• Expert-level skills in Excel

Benefits

Not specified

Pay

$72,500 - $76,500

Schedule

Not specified