Corporate Strategy - Sr Analyst - Business Analytics; Hybrid in Sacramento, CA

Corporate Strategy - Sr Analyst I - Business Analytics (Hybrid in Sacramento, CA)

The Senior Analyst I provides analytical support to our business partners. You will work closely with credit union personnel and business partners to transform data into insights that improve and advance our products, services and/or business processes. Also, you will help guide strategic development with leadership by gathering, preparing, and analyzing information to identify trends, summarize patterns, and provide data driven recommendations.

Projects require the use of critical thinking and communication to complete, along with technical skills including SQL, Power

BI, SAS Enterprise Guide, R, or Python.

• Conduct complex analysis using advanced analytics methodologies
• Deploy advanced analytics solutions
• Create data stories from disparate and raw data sources that enable data driven decision making
• Use statistical concepts and algorithms and tools to find causation, patterns, and trends
• Support junior analysts on technical problem solving and analytics best practices
• Support development of analytics best practices for the organization at scale
• Develop robust executive level data visualizations
• Lead requirements gathering sessions with internal and external stakeholders through interviews, use case identification, and workflow analysis
• Proactively review business needs and suggest research projects that will add value to the Credit Union
• Manage required ad hoc report preparation, analysis, and presentation to management as reference for strategic decisions, committee review and other information requests
• Ensure compliance with applicable standards, rules, regulations, and systems of internal control
• Review and maintain an understanding of current and future economic landscape and internal and external influence
• Assist with signoff of reporting and analysis prior to release to the line of business

• Education:
  
  Requires a bachelor's degree in area of specialty (Accounting, Mathematics, Business Administration, Information Technology, or similarly quantitative/analytical degrees). Equivalent work experience with required knowledge/skills may be substituted for degree.
• Experience:
  
  8+ years or more of progressive banking/credit union experience; 8+ years of Analytical Experience;
  Knowledge of commonly used concepts, practices, and procedures within credit union operations.
• Knowledge /
  
  Skills:
  • Technical Skills
    • Required-Expert knowledge in Microsoft Power BI - Building Visuals using existing Datasets, Power BI Desktop to build datasets and complex reporting and DAX Programming
    • SQL Programming - Select Statements, Joins, Aggregating Data, temp tables, and complex querying
    • Microsoft Excel - Formulas, functions, pivot tables, dashboard creation, data connections and automation with macros
  • Preferred-knowledge in SAS Enterprise Guide - Data Manipulation and transformation, data aggregation using the GUI tool, basic SAS programming.
  • Preferred-knowledge in Python and/or R Programming – Machine learning, quantitative analysis and data modeling
• Leadership:
  Guides external stakeholders to proper resources for inquiries;
  Provide guidance and training to junior analysts;
  Understands the balance of delegation and accountability;
  Supports and demonstrates cohesive leadership within the department;
  Supports team and department leadership with projects.
• Behavior:
  Self-motivated; can stay focused with minimal oversight;
  Ownership of their own professional and personal development;
  Attention to detail; ensures accuracy in work product;
  Ability to independently prioritize tasks;
  Leverages available tools and resources to stay organized and proactive;
  Takes initiative to identify, investigate and resolve stakeholder issues, including operational and support situations;
  Establishes, monitors, and reports key performance indicators;
  Takes the lead on projects to see them to completion;
  Helps manage the team workload and delegates work appropriately;
  Proactively looks for areas of improvement within the business and strives to find solutions;
  Maximizes efficiency through better procedures, processes, or controls;
  Open minded on new tools and methodologies that could be implemented to improve the team;
  Maximize efficiency.
• Communication and Interaction:
  Ability to speak on behalf of the leadership team;
  Adept in resolving conflicts in a professional manner;
  Demonstrates desire and ambition to achieve;
  Knows when work product requires additional attention to presentation and acts accordingly to ensure deliverables match the need;
  Is available and sought after as a resource of relevant skill and knowledge;
  Able to work through roadblocks and find solutions;
  Able to speak in technical and business language based on the audience;
  Ability to ask relevant probing questions of external stakeholders to ensure alignment of solutions with business need;
  Solid presentation skills;
  Communicates with all levels of management outside the team, including executive…