Business Strategy Analyst Senior

About the role

At USAA, our mission is to empower our members to achieve financial security through highly competitive products, exceptional service and trusted advice. We seek to be the #1 choice for the military community and their families. Embrace a fulfilling career at USAA, where our core values – honesty, integrity, loyalty and service – define how we treat each other and our members.

Opportunity

The Business Strategy Analyst Senior utilizes quantitative and qualitative analysis to provide thought-leadership on evolving industry trends, market developments, USAA's strategic direction, regulatory environment, and macroeconomic trends for the business unit. They collaborate with key stakeholders to identify key business assumptions and hypotheses around line of business strategy, continuously refine hypotheses, and identify business questions to explore further. They facilitate the integration of the analytic strategy and business strategy, develop the analytical framework and blueprint to answer business questions, and leverage advanced data-driven problem-solving techniques to manipulate and interpret business results. They communicate the significance of strategic insights to senior leaders and other key stakeholders to drive business decisions.

What You'll Do

• Collaborates with key stakeholders to identify key business assumptions and hypotheses around line of business strategy.
• Facilitates the integration of the analytic strategy and business strategy.
• Develops the analytical framework and blueprint to answer business questions identified in the business portfolio, product, or member experience.
• Collaborates with key stakeholders to evaluate and uncover strategic insights related to Profit & Loss performance including Product Strategy, Pricing, Marketing, Sales, Credit Risk, Distribution Channels, and Member Experience.
• Applies analytical rigor to define outcome measures, improve prioritization, increase agility in decisioning, improve ability to evaluate progress towards business outcomes, and to evaluate risks to strategic goals.
• Leverages advanced data-driven problem-solving techniques to manipulate and interpret business results.
• Translates findings into insights for strategy management and execution.
• Communicates the significance of strategic insights to senior leaders and other key stakeholders to drive business decisions.
• May provide guidance and on-the-job training to team members.
• Safeguards risks associated with business activities by identifying, measuring, monitoring, and controlling them in accordance with risk and compliance policies and procedures.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Business, Science, Finance, Economics or related field; OR 4 years of relevant education and/or experience.
• 6 years of data and/or analytics or strategy consulting experience; OR a minimum of 4 years of data and/or analytics or strategy consulting experience and up to 2 years of progressive functional business relevant experience for a total of 6 years combined experience; OR Advanced Degree in Business, Science, Finance, Economics or related discipline and 4 years of experience in data and/or analytics or strategy consulting.
• Experience identifying business needs and managing strategic plans driven by qualitative/quantitative analysis and market insights.
• Demonstrated experience using data analytics to formulate data-driven insights and influence business decisions.
• Experience performing complex data analysis using various data analytics tools (i.e.Microsoft Excel, Tableau, R, Python, SQL, Snowflake, SAS, Adobe Analytics).
• Demonstrated experience in project management.

Pay

$103,450 - $197,730