Senior Business Analyst (Lending - Market & Competitive Intelligence)

Overview

Support business decisions by providing quantitative and qualitative data analysis and reporting of patterns, insights, and trends to leadership via dashboards and reports. Analyze business problems and issues using business intelligence tools that incorporate data from internal and external sources. Work under minimal supervision and use complete understanding of business needs and objectives to make recommendations that have impact on the achievement of operational goals. Advanced skill set and proficiency with procedures and analysis techniques.

Responsibilities

• Quantify the size, significance, and potential business impact of competitive threats and opportunities using market sizing, scenario analysis, and benchmarking
• Analyze external data sources (e.g., industry reports, regulatory filings, public datasets, aggregators) alongside internal data to strengthen competitive and market insights
• Create executive-ready presentations that translate complex competitive dynamics into clear insights, implications and tradeoffs
• Partner with strategy and competitive intelligence stakeholders to validate assumptions and support recommendations with data-driven analysis
• Collect, aggregate, and analyze data from multiple sources, including structured and unstructured data sets, to drive insights into business performance
• Identify, analyze, and interpret trends or patterns and prepare ongoing reports and data visualizations in order to support business decisions
• Develop, maintain, and manage advanced reporting, dashboards, and BI solutions
• 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
• Communicate findings and insight to stakeholders and provide business strategy recommendations for optimizing business performance
• Provide reporting solutions and respond to ad-hoc report requests within the business area
• Create specifications for reports and analysis based on business needs and required or available data elements
• Build working relationships with team members and subject matter experts
• Lead small projects and initiatives

Qualifications

• Bachelor's Degree in Business Administration, Statistics, or related field
• 5-7 years of experience in data analysis and reporting
• Experience communicating analytical insights to senior leadership through concise, well-structured PowerPoint presentations and data visualizations
• Experience performing market sizing, benchmarking, or scenario analysis using external or imperfect data sources
• Complete knowledge and understanding of business area/specialization
• Advanced skill using business intelligence applications and/or cloud services
• Advanced knowledge of reporting capabilities of existing ERP, CRM and/or database software vendors
• Advanced skill using statistical methods, mathematical techniques, forecasting, cost-benefit analysis
• Advanced skill in complex data manipulation across multiple tables
• Effective data integration, cleaning and validation skills
• Skill communicating data analysis and visualizations to nontechnical and senior audiences
• Skill with data analysis tools and programming languages such as Python, R
• Research skills
• Interpersonal skills
• Intermediate skill in utilizing work products to tell a story through appropriate balance of visualizations, design aesthetics, and words

Additional Information

Hours:

• Monday - Friday, 8:00AM - 4:30PM

Location:

• 820 Follin Lane, Vienna, VA 22180
• 5510 Heritage Oaks Drive, Pensacola, FL 32526
• 141 Security Drive, Winchester, VA 22602

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