Business Analytics Manager

Key Cooperative•Lowell, MA

2d•Onsite

About The Position

Key Cooperative is a member-owned rural Iowa cooperative serving agriculture producers across 13 communities and six counties. The Business Analytics Manager, based in Roland, Iowa, builds and supports reporting, dashboards, KPIs, and analytics tools that help financial, operational, and management teams make better decisions. The role works with company stakeholders, vendors, the Accounting Team, the Director of Development & Technology, and the CFO to turn business needs into reliable, secure, documented BI solutions that improve visibility, accuracy, efficiency, and user adoption.

Requirements

Bachelor’s degree in information systems, analytics, computer science, accounting, finance, business, agriculture, or a related field; equivalent experience may be considered.
Five or more years of experience in business intelligence, analytics, data engineering, financial or ERP reporting, or business systems analysis.
Outstanding work ethic and attention to detail.
Ability to project a positive attitude to customers and employees while providing outstanding, courteous customer service.

Responsibilities

Build, validate, deploy, support, monitor, and continuously improve dashboards, BI reports, datasets, KPIs, operating metrics, and exception reporting.
Translate business questions into reporting requirements, business rules, calculation logic, approved data-source needs, and acceptance criteria.
Deliver financial, operational, profitability, customer, contract, inventory, settlement, variance, performance, and trend reporting using approved definitions.
Identify reporting insights, accuracy issues, and opportunities to improve business processes, visibility, efficiency, and decision-making.
Document reporting logic, definitions, approved data sources, ownership, refresh schedules, access requirements, testing, changes, and user guidance.
Build and maintain reports and dashboards securely, following company access, confidentiality, and data-use expectations.
Train users to access, interpret, and use BI reports, dashboards, KPIs, and findings effectively.
Work with company stakeholders and vendors to define, prioritize, build, test, present, and improve BI reports and dashboards.
Manage reporting requests and project work based on business value, risk, urgency, resources, and strategic alignment.
Support user acceptance testing for new dashboards, report changes, and system updates that affect reporting.
Provide concise updates on progress, blockers, decisions, findings, issue resolution, and next steps.