Senior Business Intelligence Analyst - Remote

About the role

The Senior Business Intelligence Analyst partners with cross-functional teams to gather business requirements, support data product development, and deliver actionable insights. This role bridges project-based analysis and strategic insight generation, ensuring data quality, governance, and usability—particularly for Debit and Credit data.

Responsibilities

• Partner with stakeholders to gather and translate business needs into technical requirements.
• Analyze and prepare requirements documentation including but not limited to: defining business functional requirements, business rules, data definitions, data transformations, end user reporting, and semantic layers.
• Provide input into the design, development and maintenance of BI solutions, semantic layers, and data products.
• Analyze large datasets to uncover trends, profile and validate data, and generate insights for internal and external stakeholders.
• Collaborate with Data Science to develop models and advanced analytics.
• Promote data governance, quality standards, and consistent data definitions.
• Serve as a subject matter expert and data authority for multiple data domains and strategic initiatives.
• Deliver consultative insights to stakeholders to support data-driven decisions.
• Maintain data definitions, metadata, and lineage documentation.
• Enforce data governance standards and ensure data accuracy and consistency.
• Lead efforts in identifying and resolving data quality issues.
• Serve as the point person for any data issues that arise, determine the root cause of the issue and determine the path to resolution.
• Lead stakeholder meetings and communicate findings to technical and non-technical audiences.
• Build and maintain strong relationships across business units and external partners.
• Lead training sessions at user forums, governed data sources, and tools, and contribute to user education materials.
• Manage multiple priorities and deal effectively with senior management, staff members, clients, and vendors including doing in-person or virtual presentations.
• Act as a consultant on data best practices, architecture, and process improvement.
• Provide coaching/mentoring and reviewing the work of team members ensuring processes are followed appropriately.
• Manage the processes for the loading of data.
• Drive process improvement for all data quality core processes to execute with simplicity, speed, quality and efficiency.
• Perform other duties as assigned.

Requirements

• Bachelor's degree in Business Administration, Information Science, Data Science, Applied Mathematics, Business Intelligence, or a related quantitative discipline, or an equivalent combination of education and experience is required.
• Master's degree in Information Systems, Data Science, or Business Administration is preferred.
• Relevant industry and technical certifications are a plus.
• Minimum 7 years of experience in a Business Intelligence or Business Analyst role, with a focus on data analysis, trend identification, and insight delivery, or a proven track record of expertise.
• Minimum 5 years of experience in the payments industry.
• Minimum 2 years of project management experience including leading cross-functional initiatives and managing timelines and deliverables.
• Advanced proficiency in BI tools, with Strategy preferred (e.g., SAP Business Objects, Tableau, Power BI, Qlik), including experience with building reports, dashboards and visualizations.
• 5+ years writing SQL queries, proficiency in Python a plus.
• At least 3 years in project management or business consulting, translating business needs into data solutions.
• Experience with Azure DevOps (ADO) or similar tooling.
• Practical understanding of Agile methodology.
• Excellent communication skills and ability to work with other teams and senior leadership.
• Proven ability to manage multiple projects and meet deadlines in a fast-paced environment.
• Strong analytical, organizational, and communication skills.
• Skilled in stakeholder engagement, consensus building, and cross-functional collaboration.
• Understanding of machine learning concepts and data architecture.
• Knowledge of data governance, metadata management, and the payments industry.
• Self-motivated, results-driven, and adaptable to changing priorities.
• Strong leadership and problem-solving skills and the ability to negotiate with and influence others.
• Must be able to take the lead and work independently to drive projects forward.

About Velera

At Velera, inclusion isn’t an initiative – it’s how we work. Guided by a people-helping-people philosophy, we cultivate a culture where every employee feels valued, respected and empowered to do their best work. We’re committed to building a diverse workforce and fostering meaningful connection across our teams. Through a remote-first, flexible environment, we prioritize psychological safety, wellbeing and belonging so individuals and teams can collaborate to thrive. Together, we’re shaping a new era of secure, innovative solutions for the clients and communities we serve.

Pay

$84,900.00 - $108,200.00. Actual pay will be adjusted based on experience and other job-related factors permitted by law.

Benefits

• Competitive wages
• Medical with telemedicine
• Dental and Vision
• Basic and Optional Life Insurance
• Paid Time Off (PTO)
• Maternity, Parental, Family Care
• Community Volunteer Time Off
• 12 Paid Holidays
• Company Paid Disability Insurance
• 401k (with employer match)
• Health Savings Accounts (HSA) with company provided contributions
• Flexible Spending Accounts (FSA)
• Supplemental Insurance
• Mental Health and Well-being: Employee Assistance Program (EAP)
• Tuition Reimbursement
• Wellness program