Principal Business Intelligence Analyst

Overview

Navy Federal Credit Union currently does not provide sponsorship for this role. Applicants must be authorized to work in the United States without the need for current or future sponsorship.

Support business decisions by providing quantitative and qualitative data analysis by reporting patterns, insights, and trends to leadership. Analyze business problems and issues using business intelligence tools that incorporate data from internal and external sources. Work independently to interpret and analyze complex business challenges that have a significant impact on the function or branch. Specialized skill set and proficiency with procedures and analysis techniques. Recognized as an expert in area within the company.

Responsibilities

• Collect, aggregate, and analyze data from multiple internal and external sources, including structured and unstructured data sets, to drive insights into business performance.

• Develop, maintain, and manage advanced Business Intelligence solutions

• Identify, analyze, and interpret trends or patterns and prepare ongoing reports and data visualizations (e.g., charts, dashboards, heat maps) to support business decisions

• Produce actionable reports that show key performance indicators, identify areas of improvement into current operations, and display root cause analysis of problems.

• Use analytics and metrics to improve processes and provide data-driven forecasts of potential costs, risks, and profits of new business initiatives.

• Understand data gaps and tie data components together for visualizations

• Communicate findings and insights to stakeholders and provide business strategy recommendations for optimizing business performance.

• Provide solutions and respond to ad-hoc report requests across multiple business areas.

• Create specifications for analysis based on business needs and required or available data elements

• Assist with the development and enhancement of practices, procedures, and instructions

• Develop and maintain strong working relationships with team members, subject matter experts, and leaders; work with senior management on complex issues

• Lead medium to large projects and initiatives independently

• Mentor lower-level staff

Qualifications

• 7-10 years of experience in data analysis and upward strategic reporting of data

• Subject matter expert within business area/specialization with understanding of interrelationships of different disciplines

• Expert skill using business intelligence applications and/or cloud services

• Expert knowledge of reporting capabilities of existing ERP, CRM and/or database software vendors

• Expert skill using statistical methods, mathematical techniques, forecasting, cost-benefit analysis

• Advanced skill with data analysis tools and programming languages such as Python, R

• Expert knowledge of analysis best practices, data research and root cause analysis techniques

• Proven leadership and stakeholder management skills, with a demonstrated ability to influence executive decision-makers

• Research skills

• Interpersonal skills

• Expert knowledge of data integration, cleaning and validation techniques

• Advanced research skills in the ability to complete data research, business research, reporting/dashboarding best practices research, root cause analysis, needs assessment

• Bachelor's Degree in Business Administration, Statistics, or related field

Additional Information

Hours:

• Monday - Friday, 8:00AM - 4:30PM

Location:

• 820 Follin Lane, Vienna, VA 22180

• 5510 Heritage Oaks Drive, Pensacola, FL 32526

About Us

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