Senior Business Data Analyst

# VSP Vision## Senior Business Data Analyst Apply:
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Remote US:
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R-10154

The Business Data Analyst collaborates with business teams to determine needs and opportunities for leveraging data in support of business monitoring and decision management. Applies a range of analytics and statistical techniques to generate relevant and accurate insights through data exploration, modeling, analysis and mining. Communicates findings effectively using visualizations, dashboards and presentations with the goal of optimizing business decisions and outcomes.

Engage with business leaders and staff to clarify needs and define business requirements for data analysis; where possible, anticipate and propose opportunities for analysis and exploration in support of business optimization and decision-making

Analyze complex business problems and issues using operational and financial data from multiple sources to provide insight to decision-makers

Perform data exploration, analysis, and statistical inference to identify and interpret trends and patterns in datasets and detect influences, opportunities, and risks

Develop forecasts, regression models, what-if scenarios, and recommendations in consultation with leaders to support strategic/tactical planning and operational decision-making

Create dashboards, visualizations, and reports to support business performance monitoring, automating where possible, to support stakeholders’ ability to be data-driven

Create presentations that intuitively communicate insights for business leaders and colleagues in order to advance the collective intelligence of the organization

Work collaboratively with the enterprise analytics & information management team to articulate business needs for new/revised data models and views/access to the data Contribute to data inventory and stewardship efforts, including contributions to metadata management, data profiling, data quality remediation, and data cleansing

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
** Job Specifications
*** Typically has the following skills or abilities:
* Bachelor’s degree in statistics, analytics, mathematics, economics, computer science, or related functional area; or equivalent experience4+ 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 KPIsExperience 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…