Senior Business Intelligence Analyst, Stores

About The Role

As a Senior Business Intelligence Analyst you will be responsible for working with various business teams and IT teams, extracting data through relational databases or cloud platforms; designing, developing, and supporting reports and dashboards using Qlik/MicroStrategy or other BI technologies to inform business critical decisions. One will be expected to analyze complex business challenges within the store environment. This position is expected to identify and implement departmental and company strategic initiatives that result in measured operating efficiencies and improved customer/associate experience. This role is based at our Corporate Office in Menomonee Falls, WI. You’ll work onsite from Monday through Thursday, with the option to work remotely on Fridays.

What You’ll Do

• Compile financial or operational information - Prepare and summarize data, comparing actual or expected results to the prior period or plan
• Identify trends and outliers to inform partners
• Ensure accuracy and reconciliation of information prior to communication
• Leverage data and business experience to make informed recommendations that drive operational efficiencies and customer experience
• Evaluate broad business impacts related to recommendation outcomes
• Influence cross-functional partners on existing initiatives and identify opportunities for future initiatives
• Simplify and communicate results and recommendations with senior leaders
• Develop Business Intelligence (BI) solutions to support business needs, following BI development best practices and innovative use of appropriate technologies and systems.
• Consult with partners to identify KPIs required to support critical business decisions.
• Work effectively with business teams in all phases of BI development projects, including requirements gathering, design, testing and change management
• Applies complex data derivations, business transformation rules, and data requirements
• Creates data visualizations to help support data exploration & translate analytic insights into tangible, actionable solutions
• Identify and collect primary and secondary data variables to holistically answer business questions.
• Maintain an understanding of the structure and location of various data sources to be utilized.
• Present recommendations for optimizing data structures to drive greater insights in the most effective manner
• Pull and manipulate data to best integrate with BI toolsets.
• Identify and set up processes for data quality checks.
• Additional tasks may be assigned
  
  

Required

What Skills You Have

• Bachelor’s degree in computer science or equivalent.
• 3 years of relevant professional experience in a data analysis role
• Advanced skills in SQL with Big Query, MY SQL, etc and programming with Python and R
• Proficiency in data visualization (Qlik, MicroStrategy, Tableau, etc) with experience in designing and delivering cross functional custom analytical solutions.
• Experience using cloud data warehouses such as Google Big Query
• Strong knowledge of data modeling and visualization techniques
  
  

Preferred

• Advanced degree
• Retail experience or retail operations business acumen