Sr Data & Analytics Translator (Des Moines)

Principal Financial Group • Des Moines, IA

15h • $73,000 - $88,000 • Hybrid

About The Position

We are looking for a person wo can partner with our business stakeholders to frame problems, guide analytics solutions, and translate insights into decisions. Drives analytics initiatives end to end with a focus on clarity, alignment, and measurable business value.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in Business, Analytics, Technology, or a related field.
• 2+ years of experience in analytics, consulting, marketing, project management, or equivalent experience preferred
• Working knowledge of analytics and modeling techniques and their use cases; ability to explain analytical approaches and results to non-technical audiences.
• Experience facilitating conversations to identify problems, clarify requirements, and align stakeholders on analytics opportunities.
• Strong written and verbal communication skills; able to document decisions, assumptions, and insights clearly and effectively.
• Familiarity with analytical tools such as SQL, Python, PowerBI, or similar, with emphasis on interpretation and application rather than model development.

Responsibilities

• Builds and maintains relationships with business stakeholders across the enterprise, developing an understanding of business goals, processes, and decision-making needs.
• Facilitates discovery conversations to clarify business problems, success criteria, and data requirements for analytics initiatives.
• Applies understanding of analytics and modeling approaches to recommend potential solutions and articulate trade-offs in business terms.
• Translates analytical work and model outputs into stakeholder-relevant insights that connect clearly to business outcomes and actions.
• Participates in analytics initiatives from ideation through delivery, ensuring scope, dependencies, and milestones are well defined and communicated.
• Collaborates with data owners, technical teams, and governance partners to identify data gaps, understand data quality considerations, and manage project dependencies.
• Communicates progress, risks, and changes clearly and consistently to all parties throughout the project lifecycle.
• Documents project context, decisions, assumptions, data considerations, and communications to support continuity and reuse.
• Supports stakeholder understanding of data sources, metrics, and insights; contributes to training, enablement, and adoption efforts as needed.

Benefits

• Flexible Time Off (FTO) is provided to salaried (exempt) employees and provides the opportunity to take time away from the office with pay for vacation, personal or short-term illness. Employees don’t accrue a bank of time off under FTO and there is no set number of days provided.
• Pension Eligible

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Mid Level
• Number of Employees: 5,001-10,000 employees