Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. VSP Vision is seeking a Senior Business Data Analyst to support data-driven business monitoring and decision-making. The role collaborates with business teams, analyzes operational and financial data, develops models and forecasts, and communicates insights through dashboards, visualizations, and presentations.
Responsibilities
- Engages with business leaders and staff to clarify needs and define business requirements for data analysis; where possible, anticipates and proposes opportunities for analysis and exploration in support of business optimization and decision-making
- Analyzes complex business problems and issues using operational and financial data from multiple sources to provide insight to decision-makers
- Performs data exploration, analysis, and statistical inference to identify and interpret trends and patterns in datasets and detect influences, opportunities, and risks
- Develops forecasts, regression models, what-if scenarios and recommendations in consultation with leaders to support strategic/tactical planning and operational decision-making
- Creates dashboards, visualizations, and reports to support business performance monitoring, automating where possible, to support stakeholders’ ability to be data-driven
- Creates presentations that intuitively communicate insights for business leaders and colleagues in order to advance the collective intelligence of the organization
- Works collaboratively with the enterprise analytics & information management team to articulate business needs for new/revised data models and views/access to the data
- Contributes to data inventory and stewardship efforts, including contributions to metadata management, data profiling, data quality remediation and data cleansing
- Maintains high standards and adheres to all enterprise policies and guidelines regarding data security and privacy, data management, data quality and data governance; regards data as an enterprise asset that is to be protected and used both strategically and appropriately
Skills
- Bachelor's degree in statistics, analytics, mathematics, economics, computer science, or related functional area; or equivalent experience
- 4+ 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
- Prior experience in successfully executing analytics projects in one or more of the following domains/business functions: Financial Management and Forecasting, Risk Assessment, Insurance Utilization & Pricing, Supply Chain Optimization, Retail Management, eCommerce Management, Consumer Behavior Analysis, Marketing Optimization or Healthcare Management
- Experience building complex 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 effective data visualizations/dashboards that intuitively highlight trends and patterns, with the ability to monitor business performance against KPIs
- Experience using data exploration and analysis platforms such as Cognos Analytics, Tableau, SAS, or similar
- Familiarity with data modeling concepts and relational database structures
- Strategic skills, business acumen and curiosity to support envisioning work, program planning and strategic partnerships
- Ability to analyze and document business requirements, inclusive of needs and expectations
- Flexible and able to quickly and effectively change priorities and direction
- Excellent written and verbal communication, presentation, and analytical skills
- Remains current in the field, including learning new techniques, approaches, and software available
- Expert-level skills in Excel
- 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
- For roles that are remote (i.e., Work From Home (WFH)) or hybrid (i.e., partial onsite at a VSP location and WFH), must demonstrate a high level of engagement in virtual environments, including maintaining camera presence during meetings to support effective communication and team alignment
- The role is required to maintain analytics delivery capacity across marketing, digital experience, customer data, reporting, and business analysis
- Ideal candidates blend business analysis, marketing analytics, digital analytics, and data analytics experience
- AI experience is desirable as an accelerator of strong analytical fundamentals
Benefits
- Remote work arrangement
- As a part of the compensation package, this role may include eligible bonuses and commissions.
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