Senior Business Intelligence; BI) Analyst

PA0738 Processing Center

The Sr. Business Intelligence Analyst will work with Risk / Credit Admin / Credit Risk / Model Dev team leaders and specialists to understand business goals and needs and translate these into requirements and solution designs with a focus on driving business value and positive outcomes. This role is responsible for developing consistent and coherent sets of requirements for analytical tools – requirements, design, validation, implementation, and control designs for business partners (e.g. portfolio stress testing, deposit forecasting, loan portfolio analysis, etc.).

In this role, the incumbent will take lead analyst roles in BI projects driving requirements definitions, documentation efforts and as necessary report creation, queries, etc. to support business team needs. This role is integral as a liaison among stakeholders and project teams helping to enhance Data team performance

• Interview stakeholders to understand business goals and needs, formulate technical requirements, which satisfy the business requests, document requirements and solution designs with a focus on ensuring developers have all the information necessary to complete build / test. Activities range from analytical tool design, some report development, implementation, and control designs used for understanding risk, credit portfolios and deposits, such as portfolio stress testing, marketing opportunities, accounting, concentration correlation analyses, etc.
• Interview stakeholders to identify business needs and translate these into requirements and solution designs with a focus on driving business value and positive outcomes.
• Interview users to understand how they do their jobs and what they need from data systems to improve performance, deliver on functional enhancements, monitor portfolios, etc.
• Analyze business processes, recommend changes that improve outcomes, influence stakeholders to build consensus, and implement approved changes
• Support business partner usage of the Data Environment through helping business partners learn data table and content, Power B/I, using Azure; that will begin the development of a data culture at Northwest
• Build and / or maintain Documentation Librar(ies) and Catalog(s) to ensure that such documentation is available upon request by management, regulators, and internal and external auditors
• Monitor data environment builds, executions, execution run-times, change developments, change implementations, and workplans.
• Develop quantitative modeling other than CECL, such as loss forecasting, predictive risk rating models, stress testing, and profitability analysis.
• Take the lead in developing and implementing predictive analytical tools, ad hoc analyses, visual/interactive reporting, segmentation analysis, and process automation. Identify the problem, provide potential solutions, and design the model construct
• Translate business goals, user needs and process improvements into data management functions and requirements
• Explain the value, capabilities and limitations of data systems to business managers and users as the project is designed and built
• Lead individual and group project designs, wireframes, and mockups of analytic dashboards, visualizations, scorecards, stack rankings, and reports, and provide approved technical specifications to developers
• Analyze and structure data to implement enterprise data management goals of identifying, storing, processing, provisioning and governing data
• Ensure data quality by validating data to assess fitness for use, identifying and directing remediation of issues, and completing quality assurance testing
• Follow Data Governance procedures to ensure that data and data based processes are appropriately managed
• Work with Enterprise data warehouse, analytical cubes, metadata and master data management to provide business insights for decision making
• Analyze and complete project requests
• Troubleshoot and resolve data issues

• Ensure compliance with Northwest’s policies and procedures, and Federal/State regulations
• Navigate Microsoft Office Software, computer applications, and software specific to…