Business Performance Senior Analyst

Job Summary

The Business Performance Senior Analyst works under minimal supervision to understand the business unit data and analytic needs of moderate to high complexity. By gathering business requirements and utilizing qualitative and quantitative rigor they derive findings, identify impacts, and formulate ideas, options, and recommended actions to business questions and needs.
The Business Performance Senior Analyst uses a collaborate approach with peers and internal business partners to support addressing key business needs. The Business Performance Senior Analyst applies a strong understanding of data, analytics, and the business landscape to derive data-driven recommendations and enhance current or develop new processes that optimally benefit Westfield.
In partnership with the business stakeholders, the Business Performance Senior Analyst ensures development of work products delivers optimal business value, whether working independently or as part of a larger delivery team.

Job Responsibilities

• Provides data-driven answers or solutions to business questions through assigned projects of moderate to high complexity.
• Utilizes knowledge of core insurance principles, business environment, and analytics for analysis and consumption of data.
• Analyze and derive findings, identify impacts, and formulate ideas, options, and recommended actions.
• Utilizes strong consultative and collaborative approach in working with internal business partners to anticipate and address needs; effectively translates business questions or needs into solution and associated requirements.
• Extract and transform data from various databases (on premises, cloud and snowflake) to perform moderate to complex analyses to come up with data driven solutions.
• Determines the final work product in partnership with stakeholders in the business units and other supporting units and manages the requirements of the work product to ensure optimal delivery of business value.
• Ensures delivery of products across various stages while ensuring business value is delivered in a timely fashion.
• Provides technical guidance, coaching and mentoring to less experienced analysts.
• Excellent communication skills (verbal, written and presentation) including story telling from data.
• Identifies the appropriate internal and external sources of data, ensuring quality for purpose of answering business questions.
• Identifies opportunities for improvement of processes and leads process improvement efforts.
• Creates and maintains accurate procedure documentation and reference materials.

Job Qualifications

• 5+ years of experience in analytical positions with demonstrated ability to provide reporting and analytics on moderately complex projects/assignments.
• Bachelor’s degree in statistics, mathematics, business/data analytics, actuarial sciences, finance or related field or commensurate data analysis or business intelligence experience.

Licenses and Certifications

• Certified Business Analysis Professional (CBAP) (Preferred)
• Data Analyst Certification (Preferred)
• Power BI

Behavioral Competencies

• Collaborates
• Communicates Effectively
• Customer Focus
• Decision Quality
• Nimble Learning
• Builds Effective Teams
• Business Insight
• Develops Talent
• Ensures Accountability
• Manages Complexity
• Strategic Mindset

Technical Skills

• Business Intelligence (BI) Reporting Tools (e.g. Power BI)
• Business Requirement Gathering
• Data Analysis and Synthesis
• Programming Languages (e.g. Python, R)
• SQL
• Data Visualization
• Business Acumen
• Basic Statistics and Basic Machine Learning

This job description describes the general nature and level of work performed in this role. It is not intended to be an exhaustive list of all duties, skills, responsibilities, knowledge, etc. These may be subject to change and additional functions may be assigned as needed by management.