Business Intelligence Analyst I

Unum•Portland, ME

About The Position

When you join the team at Unum, you become part of an organization committed to helping you thrive. Here, we work to provide the employee benefits and service solutions that enable employees at our client companies to thrive throughout life’s moments. And this starts with ensuring that every one of our team members enjoys opportunities to succeed both professionally and personally. With 10,000 employees helping more than 39 million people worldwide, every role at Unum is meaningful and impacts the lives of our customers. Whether you’re directly supporting a growing family, or developing online tools to help navigate a difficult loss, customers are counting on the combined talents of our entire team. The Business Intelligence Analyst I supports the Colonial Life FP&A team by delivering data analysis, analytics, and reporting to inform financial planning and decision-making. This role is responsible for simple to moderately complex data analysis, data preparation, and visualization, translating financial and operational data into meaningful insights that enable teams and leaders to confidently take action. The ideal candidate is passionate about data and brings a creative, analytical mindset to solving business challenges. This position partners closely with Business Analysts, BI Analysts, Data Scientists, Data Engineers, and business stakeholders to gather requirements, validate data, and ensure high-quality, actionable reporting.

Requirements

Bachelors Degree preferred, and/or equivalent experience
2+ years experience with demonstrated success at an Associate level in a data analytics related field
Knowledge of analytics programming languages (SQL/R/Python)
Experience with modern BI toolsets (Tableau, Alteryx, PowerBI, or equivalent)
Understanding of data profiling, statistical analysis and data modeling concepts
Comfortable extracting and leveraging data out of data warehouse, transactional databases, object stores & API based environments
Demonstrated ability to translate business needs into technical solutions
Ability to embrace change, adapt to the unexpected, and focus energies, people, and solutions on practical and positive results
Demonstrated problem solving skills
Strong communications skills
Aptitude and drive to learn new technologies and analysis techniques
Strong team player; able to work effectively within a team and more broadly with people from a variety of backgrounds and areas across the organization.

Responsibilities

Conduct data profiling and analysis to evaluate data sources to determine the best source for business information
Acquiring, transforming and translating data into actionable dashboards, reports, algorithms or datasets with minimal support from mentor and manager
Performing statistical analysis and presenting findings to guide and advise leadership
Collaborate with data engineers to perform data validation and testing activities as appropriate
Continuously develop and build upon existing knowledge of the insurance industry
Continuously develop and build upon existing knowledge of data stored in company databases
Works directly with internal customers to refine requirements and validate output to ensure solutions will meet expectations

Benefits

Award-winning culture
Inclusion and diversity as a priority
Performance Based Incentive Plans
Health
Vision
Dental
Short & Long-Term Disability
Generous PTO (including paid time to volunteer!)
Up to 9.5% 401(k) employer contribution
Mental health support
Career advancement opportunities
Student loan repayment options
Tuition reimbursement
Flexible work environments
healthcare benefits (health, vision, dental)
insurance benefits (short & long-term disability)
performance-based incentive plans
paid time off
a 401(k) retirement plan with an employer match up to 5% and an additional 4.5% contribution whether you contribute to the plan or not