CS - BI and Analytics - Sr Analyst II - Business Analytics

Golden 1 Talent Acquisition Team•Sacramento, CA

23h

About The Position

The Senior Analyst II provides analytical support to our business partners. You will work closely with credit union personnel and business partners to transform data into insights that improve and advance our products, services and/or business processes. Also, you will help guide strategic development with leadership by gathering, preparing, and analyzing information to identify trends, summarize patterns, and provide data driven recommendations. This is a senior level analyst with Golden 1 Credit Union, and you will work with leadership or other analysts on highly complex analysis that impact corporate strategy using our data. As a thought leader in the analytics space, you will function as a subject matter and technical expert amongst the team and business partners. Projects will require the use of critical thinking and communication to complete, along with technical skills including SQL and PowerBI. An understanding of how to use SAS Enterprise Guide, R or Python for statistical work or data manipulation is also expected.

Requirements

Requires a bachelor's degree in area of specialty (Accounting, Mathematics, Business Administration, Information Technology, or similarly quantitative/analytical degrees). Equivalent work experience with required knowledge/skills may be substituted for degree.
11+ years of business intelligence and analytical experience
Demonstrated proficiency in data architecture, data warehousing, and business intelligence
Knowledge of commonly used concepts, practices, and procedures within credit union operations.
Microsoft Excel- Formulas, functions, pivot tables, dashboard creation, data connections and automation with macros
Microsoft Office
VBA Coding to support automation of tasks.
Demonstrated leadership ability – capable of inspiring teammates towards a mentality of bias to action and leads by example
Guides external stakeholders to proper resources for inquiries
Mentor and develop employees throughout the department to assist with skills growth
Understands the balance of delegation and accountability
Supports and demonstrates cohesive leadership within the department
Supports team and department leadership with projects
Self-motivated; can stay focused with minimal oversight
Ownership of their own professional and personal development
Attention to detail; ensures accuracy in work product
Ability to independently prioritize tasks
Leverages available tools and resources to stay organized and proactive
Takes initiative to identify, investigate and resolve stakeholder issues, including operational and support situations
Establishes, monitors, and reports key performance indicators
Takes the lead on projects to see them to completion
Helps manage the team workload and delegates work appropriately
Proactively looks for areas of improvement within the business and strives to find solutions
Maximizes efficiency through better procedures, processes, or controls
Open minded on new tools and methodologies that could be implemented to improve the team
Ability to speak on behalf of the leadership team
Adept in resolving conflicts in a professional manner
Demonstrates desire and ambition to achieve
Knows when work product requires additional attention to presentation and acts accordingly to ensure deliverables match the need
Is available and sought after as a resource of relevant skill and knowledge
Able to work through roadblocks and find solutions
Able to speak in technical and business language based on the audience
Ability to ask relevant probing questions of external stakeholders to ensure alignment of solutions with business need
Solid presentation skills; Speaks clearly and confidently
Makes complicated information understandable to the audience
Confident communicating with all levels of management outside the team, including executive leadership
Takes time to understand co-workers work goals and supports them in their effort to do their best work.
Ability to motivate and inspire teammates
Effective oral and written communication skills required to assist other staff, share reports, coach staff, communicate clearly with management, and perform other related tasks
Must possess sufficient manual dexterity to skillfully operate standard office equipment, such as financial calculators, personal computer, and telephone

Nice To Haves

Microsoft Power BI - Building Visuals using existing Datasets, Power BI Desktop to build datasets and complex reporting and DAX Programming.
SQL Programming - Select Statements, Joins, Aggregating Data, temp tables, and complex querying.
SAS Enterprise Guide - Data Manipulation and transformation, data aggregation using the GUI tool, basic SAS programming.
Python and/or R Programming - Quantitative analysis and modeling
Machine Learning and Data Modeling
Data Analytics Certification like: Certified Analytics Professional (CAP), IBM Data Science Professional Certificate, Datacamp Analyst Certification, Microsoft Data Analyst Associate Certification, SQL Certification, or other graduate work in the fields of finance, business intelligence or data analytics.

Responsibilities

Lead analytics projects, triage analytic tasks, and deploy scalable data and analytic solutions
Partner with stakeholders such as product managers, data engineers, and analysts to design experiments and minimum viable products using business defined use-cases
Create data stories from disparate and raw data sources that enable data driven decision making
Mentor junior analysts on technical problem solving and analytics best practices
Establish Business Intelligence best practices for the organization at scale
Develop robust executive level data visualizations
Proactively review business needs and suggest research projects that will add value to the Credit Union
Manage required ad hoc report preparation, analysis, and presentation to management as reference for strategic decisions, committee review and other information requests
Ensure compliance with applicable standards, rules, regulations, and systems of internal control
Review and maintain an understanding of current and future economic landscape and internal and external influence
Assist with signoff of reporting and analysis prior to release to the line of business
Assist with the technical skill growth and business knowledge growth of junior analysts