Business Analyst

• Full time
• Work Hours 8:30 a.m. to 5:00 p.m.
• No direct reports
• <10% travel required
• No relocation assistance

• Transforming data into information necessary to make strategic business decisions.
• Proactively analyzes key business information and advises business leaders of emerging trends.
• Actively participates in the scoping of business opportunities and threats from both a strategic and financial perspective.
• Creates tools to allow for automated display of information (data transformed into actionable information.)
• Advises senior leadership of appropriate budgetary values and trends.
• Participates proactively in strategic business reviews as a corporate liaison between the business unit and corporate oversight functions.
• Challenges business decision background with support from data analysis.
• Trains business leaders and sales professionals on analysis tools to enable more informed strategic decision making.
• Interfaces with Product Management concerning new product introduction sales forecasting/costing as well as on const reduction projects.
• Analyzes both direct and trace sales to determine sales professional bonus calculations and commissions.
• Determines proactively alternative measurement techniques/segregations of information to allow for strategic decision making.
• Collaborates with Information Technology, Pricing, and Sales Support to create tools and process to ensure data integrity.
• Teams with leaders and other departments on special requested Projects.
• Serves as a key source for gathering and reporting on product attribute information.
• Trains and mentors Sales System users across the enterprise to help develop self reliance and power users within each department.

BA/BS in finance, engineering or other quantitative fields. MBA preferred.
Five (5) years relevant business experience in a professional analysis role.

Additional General/Technical Skills Required

• Computer skills in data bases/spreadsheets
• Teaming skills
• Project management skills
• Writing — Communicating effectively in writing as appropriate for the needs of the audience.
• Reading Comprehension — Understanding written sentences and paragraphs in work related documents.
• Systems Evaluation — Identifying measures or indicators of system performance and the actions needed to improve or correct performance, relative to the goals of the system.
• Active Listening — Giving full attention to what other people are saying, taking time to understand the points being made, asking questions as appropriate, and not interrupting at inappropriate times.
• Critical Thinking — Using logic and reasoning to identify the strengths and weaknesses of alternative solutions, conclusions or approaches to problems.
• Operations Analysis — Analyzing needs and product requirements to create a design.
• Judgment and Decision Making — Considering the relative costs and benefits of potential actions to choose the most appropriate one.
• Complex Problem Solving — Identifying complex problems and reviewing related information to develop and evaluate options and implement solutions.
• Systems Analysis — Determining how a system should work and how changes in conditions, operations, and the environment will affect outcomes.