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Business Analyst
JOB SUMMARY
This position is responsible for analyzing business operations and recommending solutions to align individual business functions with organizational goals. This role requires understanding of the structure, policies, and operations of an organization, and recommends solutions to improve general business processes and planning. This position can collaborate with one or several business units or functions.
MAJOR DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES
Work with business stakeholders analyze business operations and recommend solutions to align individual business functions with organizational goals
Understand the structure, policies, and operations of an organization, and recommend solutions to improve general business processes and planning
Compile, analyze, interpret, and present data related to current and future operation
Create reports, charts, graphs and presentations to aid in proposing new strategies for successful business changes
Produce and update key trainings and documentation to be consumed by the internal department including, but not limited to memos, posters, and website maintenance.
Ensure smooth operations of inventory management by implementing efficiencies with the organization
May make recommendations for solutions or improvements that can be accomplished through new technology or alternative uses of existing technology
Perform other duties as requested
REQUIRED QUALIFICATIONS
Skills/Abilities and Knowledge
Ability to read, write, speak and understand English
Ability to prioritize and organize effectively
Ability to work independently, as well as in a collaborative and dynamic team environment
Ability to handle multiple projects and priorities
Ability to analyze and interpret data
Ability to quickly identify business problems/opportunities
Ability to communicate orally and in writing in a clear and straightforward manner
Ability to communicate with all levels of management and company personnel
Ability to manage multiple projects at one time
Ability to prioritize and organize effectively
Excellent knowledge of software applications such as Word, Excel, etc.
Education
Bachelor’s degree in business or related field
Related Work Experience
2+ years of business analysis or related experience
- Manage primary research and secondary analytics to guide business decisions.
- Align and execute brand learning plans in partnership with multi-functional teams:
- Works collaboratively with internal partners to ensure business issues are translated into specific research questions with clear business impact.
- Identifies research design and/or secondary data analysis that is appropriate to address business issue; interpret research findings and synthesize into actionable business insights and recommendations.
- Assess vendor research designs to ensure answer core business questions and maximize value.
- Distils data from primary and secondary information sources to drive business decisions
Responsibilities:
- Proactively identify knowledge gaps in context of current business needs, recommending and aligning management to closing these knowledge gaps.
- Articulate market dynamics and performance, customer needs attitudes and behavior around assigned brands and categories.
- Demonstrates agility in managing multiple priorities and projects in a complex environment.
- Articulate market dynamics and performance, customer needs attitudes and behavior around assigned brands and categories.
- Demonstrates agility in managing multiple priorities and projects in a complex environment.
- Manages relevant IT tools as required, managing data uploads, accessibility, training, communication and general support
- Guide and develop Sr. Analyst(s), Market Research role.
- Travel at approximately 25%.
- Reviews, analyzes, and evaluates business systems and user needs.
- Formulates systems to parallel overall business strategies.
Additional Details:
- May require a Bachelor’s degree in a related area and 10+ years of experience in the field or in a related area.
- Has knowledge of commonly-used concepts, practices, and procedures within a particular field.
- Relies on instructions and per-established guidelines to perform the functions of the job.
- Primary job functions do not typically require exercising independent judgment.
NewDay USA is looking for a top notch business mind and modeler to support our operations and business development initiatives. Working closely with Sales, Finance and Human Resources the Business Analyst will play a critical role in business operation planning and process improvements.
Responsibilities:
Effectively solve and communicate operational and financial matters
Contribute to the execution of NewDay USA’s strategic goals and objectives
Prepare and analyze data and provide key business insights
Identify opportunities for NewDay USA to leverage cross‐functional strengths and improve and
streamline operational functions in the company
Create business models and reporting capabilities for various branches of NewDay USA
Reports directly to department leader and senior management
About You:
You have a Business, Accounting or Finance degree. MBA or MBA candidacy a plus.
You have 1‐5 years of business operations experience
You have skills in SQL and Excel
You are an analytical decision maker with the ability to prioritize and communicate tactics necessary to achieve results
We’re seeking a Business Analyst to help establish the metrics and reporting that both look back at learner progress and look forward to inform content development, go to market efforts and regional priorities.
Responsibilities :
- Help to establish key sets of data and insights required to optimize our investment in scaled education programming, both live & online.
- Work with technical and business teams to develop, deploy and maintain reports and dashboards for executives, internal and external partners.Analyze, assess and drive key metrics of success with a goal toward achieving OKRs
- Utilize data driven analysis to optimize make recommendations for education programming, organization and promotion channels.
- Partner closely with internal revenue science and analytics to help identify where and how scaled education correlates with revenue impact.
- Work with regional and inter-departmental stakeholders to communicate progress against goals for enrollments, engagement and badge attainment for various audience segments.
- Work with vendor Learning Management System team (Intellum) to ensure that LMS data is architected and delivered in a way that facilitates easy discovery and manipulation with internal data warehouse systems.
- Build, present, maintain and troubleshoot reports and metrics critical to helping Twitter meet partner obligations and targets related to Scaled Education
Skills :
- Self-starter with an entrepreneurial spirit; Excited by ambiguity, ambitious, reliable, and comfortable working across multiple external partners and internal teams to build strong and successful relationships
- Advanced experience manipulating data across a variety of systems, formats and query tools including Vertica, Tableau, Google Data Studio
- Passion for the media industry and the changing content landscape
- Proven ability to lead as the hub of the wheel on intensive cross functional coordination in both deal processes and more significant executing priorities and plans
- Creative thinker that can solve diverse problems and goals to develop integrated solutions for key stakeholders externally and internally
- Critical analytical thinker
Job Types: Full-time, Contract
Salary: $50.00 to $70.00 /hour
Experience:
- business analysis: 3 years (Preferred)
- online Learning: 3 years (Preferred)
- salesforce: 3 years (Preferred)
- Content Development: 3 years (Preferred)
- Advertising: 3 years (Preferred)
The Real Estate Development and Business Analyst is responsible for working with a portfolio of potential new AutoZone stores alongside the Real Estate department, forecasting sales, performing competitive analysis to understand market trends, and presenting and defending findings to a variety of audiences.
What We Do:
- Our Team is responsible for driving the Store Development strategy of a Fortune 300 company
- Our Analysts perform high-level studies using cutting edge technology and data to forecast sales and understand market trends
- We travel the country to tie together what we see on a map and what is taking place on the ground in real-time
- Our Analysts are in a high-profile role that presents recommendations directly to Executive-level committees on a weekly basis
- We operate in a highly dynamic environment where creativity and flexible process improvement is not only encouraged, it is expected
- Our Team fosters professional development and outside-the-box thinking so that skill sets are well-rounded and non-complacent
- We serve as the spatial analytics hub for the entire organization and are poised to answer any question that has a “where” component
What We Look For:
- Individuals with the curiosity to go the extra mile to understand complex problems and come up with solutions
- Confidence to present findings and recommendations to Executive-level audiences and answer questions directly
- Ability to use critical thinking skills and see the big-picture to understand how the decision at hand affects the overall development strategy
- Technical aptitude to learn and understand the latest GIS and Statistical tools and use them as a tool to make recommendations and understand large and complex data sets
What You Should Bring to the Team:
- Bachelor’s degree required
- Experience conducting quantitative analysis
- Minimum of 2 – 3 years of experience in GIS, Market Research, Business Analytics or similar field
- Savvy technical skills
- Experience using ArcGIS software or similar GIS platforms a plus
- Proficiency with Alteryx, SAS, Excel, or similar business software packages a plus
- Demonstrated experience preparing and presenting technical documents required