This role will deliver enterprise-wide business intelligence initiatives in support of Make-A-Wish America’s (MAW) vision of reaching every eligible child. The core responsibilities for this position include acting as the trusted advisor for internal business partners to articulate, capture, and advocate for their needs, designing and deploying additions to the current business intelligence platform, and leading data modeling and analysis efforts to produce actionable insights. This resource will coordinate with foundation staff and/or third-party resources on the above activities to accomplish the goals of the organization.
Areas of Responsibility:
- Understands business needs of multiple stakeholders and translates them into detailed specifications to facilitate building data-centric analysis and reporting solutions.
- Evaluates information gathered from multiple sources, reconciles conflicts, and distinguishs requests from true needs.
- Assists with communication to business & stakeholder management activities.
- Acts as Subject Matter Expert within assigned business unit(s) to gather long term goals and build the roadmap to solve for those requests.
- Develops communication, training, and change management plans in support of project execution and rollout.
- Maintains and develops “Standardized Reporting”
- Designs reports and visualizations using SSRS, Power BI and other approved BI platforms.
- Conducts ad-hoc research using BI tools to identify opportunities and propose next steps to business.
- Writes SQL queries in support of Reporting, Analytics and Data (RAD) team projects.
- Uses quantitative/qualitative techniques to model and analyze data to provide decision support.
- Performs other job related duties, as assigned.
Educational Background:
Bachelor’s degree in Business, Computer Information Systems, Finance, Industrial Engineering or related field.
Skills/Experience:
- Applies critical thinking and analytic skills to solve for key business opportunities.
- Works independently; highly adaptable to changing priorities.
- Possesses strong written and verbal communication skills.
- Engages effectively with professionals at all levels of the organization.
- Organizes work, prioritizes, meets deadlines, and makes timely decisions with sound judgment.
- Builds mathematical models to analyze and solve for key business issues.
- Utilizes BI platforms (e.g. Tableau, Power BI, Etc.).
- Writes and understands SQL queries for data analysis.
- Minimum 2+ years relevant experience as a Business Analyst.
- Ability to write and interpret SQL-based queries required
- Experience with Power BI preferred
Job Function:
Organization Info
Listing Stats
Post Date:
Jun 1 2018
Active Until:
Jul 1 2018
Hiring Organization:
Make-A-Wish America
industry:
Nonprofit