Business Intelligence (BI) Analyst

JDC • New York, NY

1d • $80,000 - $100,000 • Hybrid

About The Position

The Business Intelligence Analyst serves as a data analytics expert and business intelligence lead within the Gift Processing & Analytics (GP&A) team. The role provides data-driven insights, reporting, and decision support to advance fundraising, financial, operational, and strategic priorities. It works with business stakeholders to understand their needs and translate them into practical analytics solutions, while partnering with IT and data teams as needed to support data quality, availability, integration, governance, and scalable reporting. The analyst also promotes the effective adoption and use of data across the department through guidance, training, documentation, and support.

Requirements

• At least 5 years of experience in business intelligence, data analytics, financial analytics, reporting, or a related field.
• Strong experience developing and maintaining Power BI dashboards and reporting solutions.
• Ability to translate complex business requirements into practical analytics and reporting solutions, including data modeling, data transformation, publishing, refresh management, and performance optimization.
• Strong understanding of data modeling, reporting methodologies, KPIs, and business performance measurement.
• Experience working with data from multiple business systems and integrating disparate data sources.
• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills, including the ability to identify meaningful trends and translate findings into actionable insights.
• Excellent communication and stakeholder management skills, with the ability to work effectively with business and technical teams.
• Experience driving reporting automation, standardization, and process improvement.
• Strong attention to data quality, accuracy, and detail.

Nice To Haves

• Experience with RE NXT, Power Query, and other Power BI development tools.
• Ability to manage multiple priorities and projects in a collaborative, business-focused environment.
• Bachelor's degree in business, finance, analytics, information systems, data science, or a related field.
• Experience supporting fundraising, finance, budgeting, planning, or nonprofit operations.
• Passion for humanitarian work and/or global Jewish service.

Responsibilities

• Provide data-driven insights to support fundraising, financial, operational, and strategic decision-making.
• Partner with business stakeholders to translate priorities and needs into reports, dashboards, KPIs, scorecards, and analytical solutions.
• Develop, enhance, and maintain Power BI dashboards, scorecards, and self-service reporting tools.
• Analyze complex business data to identify trends, risks, opportunities, and actionable insights for leadership and stakeholders.
• Design and maintain data models integrating information across fundraising, finance, budgeting, and other relevant business systems.
• Develop reporting and analytics solutions that improve visibility into performance, planning, forecasting, and outcomes.
• Drive reporting automation, standardization, and process improvements across GP&A.
• Validate BI outputs against source data, resolve discrepancies, and maintain documentation of supporting business logic.
• Establish and maintain reporting standards, definitions, KPIs, and documentation to support consistent interpretation and use of data.
• Partner with IT and other technical teams on data availability, integration, governance, and reporting requirements.
• Serve as a business-facing subject matter expert in analytics and business intelligence.
• Promote analytics and self-service reporting adoption through guidance, training, documentation, and ongoing support for business users.
• Translate analytical findings into clear business narratives and recommendations for leadership.
• Identify opportunities to improve reporting capabilities, data accessibility, analytical processes, and the use of data across GP&A.

Benefits

• Medical, vision, and dental insurance coverage.
• Paid time off, including 20 vacation days, 20 sick days, 3 personal days, 10 national holidays, and up to 14 Jewish holidays depending on the calendar year.
• 12 weeks of paid parental leave for full-time staff who have worked at JDC for at least one year.
• 403(b) with JDC contributions of 6.5% of salary.
• Flexible Spending Accounts (FSA), commuter benefits, and life insurance.
• Professional development opportunities through workshops and trainings with the internal Learning & Development program.
• Food perks, including Bagel Thursdays and office beverages and snacks for on-site and hybrid employees.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Mid Level
• Education Level: No Education Listed