Business Data Analyst

The Business Data Analyst is responsible for assisting in various activities including data gathering, trending, modeling, forecasting, and reporting. The primary responsibility will be to create new dashboards and visualizations to provide insight into underlying business dynamics. The incumbent will develop analytic solutions, analyze industrial-size data sets, clean and filter data, identify patterns and design visualizations to support business needs.

The successful candidate for this position must be able to: (1) think analytically and logically in solving business problems; (2) know what types of data must be analyzed to find the facts needed to solve these problems; (3) have the quantitative and software skills required for accessing the data, conducting the analysis, interpreting the results, and helping formulate solutions.

This role requires understanding of the metrics used to measure online/digital advertising, as well as a strong foundation in data analysis. The ideal candidate will have experience working with major ad serving reporting systems, both publisher and client-side. The candidate will also have a strong interest in digital data analytics and be mathematically inclined.

Key Responsibilities:

Conceptualize, design and support the implementation of analytics and reports utilizing a variety of data warehouse front-end tools, primarily Tableau.

Leverage advanced Tableau functionality (parameters, actions, API, complex calculations, etc.) to create internal business intelligence dashboards.

Extract, combine, and filter data sets from data warehouse as well as utilizing external data sources by blending, according to internal client specifications to prepare analyses.

Develop and create Tableau software engineering solutions for dashboards, scorecards, scheduled reports, ad hoc queries, and decision support.

Work with Data Warehouse developers, and data architect to ensure that data quality around business decisions is maintained. 

Analyze and translate business requirements to identify impacts, trends, and gaps.

Own and deliver multiple BI projects, on an ongoing, long-term and ad-hoc basis.

Manage ongoing reporting processes and execute daily and monthly reporting packages using the Business Intelligence server platform.

Prepare accurate and timely financial and business-related analyses

Minimum Qualifications:

3+ years of prior data analytics; business intelligence experience

2+ years experience with Tableau or other data warehouse front end tools

Advanced Excel skills and SQL experience

Preferred Qualifications:

Comprehensive understanding of reporting tools and data warehouse solutions

Ability to write and amend SQL queries

Able to collect, clean, and transform data into valuable reports and provide insight

Strong quantitative and analytical skills with advanced financial analysis

A passion for data

Experience with Tableau (dashboard design and delivery) and other digital analytics tools on visualization

Must be comfortable in a fluid and evolving organization

Bachelor’s degree in a quantitative field (computer science, statistics, or related)

Professional Skills:

Ability to improve business processes by leveraging data and influencing skills

Self-starter motivated by the opportunity to lead cross-functional efforts and drive execution aggressively

Strong consultative, analytical and problem-solving skills

Excellent interpersonal, communication and presentation skills

Detail oriented, strong organizational skills and ability to work independently