Senior Business Data Analyst

This is a fully remote position, open to applicants in United States.

📋 Description

• Collaborate with business teams to identify needs and opportunities for utilizing data.

• Engage with business leaders and staff to clarify requirements and define data-analysis needs.

• Anticipate and suggest analysis opportunities that enhance business optimization and decision-making.

• Analyze intricate business challenges using operational and financial data from diverse sources.

• Conduct data exploration, analysis, and statistical inference to uncover trends, patterns, influences, opportunities, and risks.

• Develop forecasts, regression models, what-if scenarios, and strategic recommendations for tactical and operational decisions.

• Create dashboards, visualizations, and reports to monitor business performance, automating processes where feasible.

• Prepare presentations that effectively communicate insights to business leaders and colleagues.

• Collaborate with the enterprise analytics and information management team regarding data models, views, and data access.

• Contribute to data inventory and stewardship, focusing on metadata management, data profiling, data quality remediation, and data cleansing.

• Safeguard and responsibly use data as a valuable enterprise asset while adhering to security, privacy, management, quality, and governance policies.

⛳️ Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in statistics, analytics, mathematics, economics, computer science, or a related functional area; or equivalent experience.

• 4+ years of proven experience in data analytics.

• Proficient in querying and analyzing operational and/or financial data.

• Experience executing analytics projects in relevant fields such as financial management and forecasting, risk assessment, insurance utilization and pricing, supply chain optimization, retail management, eCommerce management, consumer behavior analysis, marketing optimization, or healthcare management.

• Skilled in building complex SQL queries to join, filter, cleanse, and aggregate data.

• Experienced in creating impactful data visualizations and dashboards for KPI monitoring.

• Familiar with data exploration and analysis platforms such as Cognos Analytics, Tableau, SAS, or similar tools.

• Understanding of data modeling concepts and relational database structures.

• Possess strategic skills, business acumen, and a sense of curiosity.

• Ability to analyze and document business requirements effectively.

• Adaptable to changing priorities and directions.

• Excellent written and verbal communication, presentation, and analytical skills.

• Remain updated with new techniques, approaches, and software.

• Expert-level proficiency in Excel.

• For remote positions, maintain high engagement in virtual environments, including being on camera during meetings.

• Must adhere to data security, privacy, management, quality, and governance policies.

• VSP Vision employees with access to sensitive personal information are required to comply with Information Security and Privacy Policies.

• Pre-employment substance abuse testing is mandatory.

🏝️ Benefits

• Eligible bonuses and commissions may be part of the compensation package.

• VSP Vision benefits (details linked in posting).

• Remote work arrangement available.

• Support for virtual work, including maintaining camera presence during meetings for effective communication and team alignment.