What are the responsibilities and job description for the Business Intelligence Analyst III position at Principal Financial Group?
What You'll Do
Principal is seeking a Business Intelligence Analyst III within our Retirement & Income Solutions (RIS) Data & Analytics team! In this role, we are looking for someone who is technically skilled in Power BI and SAS and familiar with other BI platforms. This individual will help shape the organization's BI strategy by evaluating reporting and analytics tools, participating in enterprise governance discussions, and identifying innovative ways to deliver insights through emerging technologies such as AI, agentic solutions, and LLMs.
This role will serve as an active participant in the enterprise BI Steering Committee, helping evaluate and guide decisions on analytics and reporting technologies, including which tools to adopt, optimize, or retire. The ideal candidate brings an experimental mindset, continuously exploring opportunities to improve how insights are delivered through emerging technologies such as AI, agentic solutions, and LLMs rather than relying solely on traditional reporting approaches. This individual will also develop a strong understanding of the RIS business, own existing reporting solutions, and support ongoing ad hoc analytics and reporting needs.
What You'll Do
Salary ranges below reflect targeted base salaries. Non-sales positions have the opportunity to participate in a bonus program. Sales positions are eligible for sales incentives, and in some instances a bonus plan, whereby total compensation may far exceed base salary depending on individual performance. Actual compensation for all roles will be based upon geographic location, work experience, education, licensure requirements and/or skill level and will be finalized at the time of offer.
Salary Range (Non-Exempt expressed as hourly; Exempt expressed as yearly)
$85000 - $134000 / year
Salary Details
The following locations are examples of market-specific salary ranges across different geographies.
Flexible Time Off (FTO) is provided to salaried (exempt) employees and provides the opportunity to take time away from the office with pay for vacation, personal or short-term illness. Employees don’t accrue a bank of time off under FTO and there is no set number of days provided.
Pension Eligible
Yes
Work Environment
This role offers in-office, hybrid (blending at least three office days in a typical workweek), and remote work arrangements (only if residing more than 30 miles from Des Moines, IA, Raleigh, NC, or Charlotte, NC). You’ll work with your leader to figure out which option may align best based on several factors.
Work Authorization/Sponsorship
At this time, we're not considering candidates that need any type of immigration sponsorship now or in the future or those needing work authorization for this role. (This includes, but is not limited to students on F1-OPT, F1-CPT, J-1, etc.)
Nonimmigrant Workers and Green Card for Employment-Based Immigrants
Investment Code of Ethics
For Principal Global Investors positions, you’ll need to follow an Investment Code of Ethics related to personal and business conduct as well as personal trading activities for you and members of your household. These same requirements may also apply to other positions across the organization.
Experience Principal
At Principal, we value connecting on both a personal and professional level. Together, we’re imagining a more purpose-led future for financial services – and that starts with you. Our success depends on the unique experiences, backgrounds, and talents of our employees. And we support our employees the same way we support our customers: with comprehensive, competitive benefit offerings crafted to protect their physical, financial, and social well-being. Check out our careers site to learn more about our purpose, values and benefits.
Principal is an Equal Opportunity Employer
All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, or veteran status.
Posting Window
We will accept applications for 3 full days following the Original Posting Date, after which the posting may remain open or be removed based upon applications received. If we choose to post the job again, we will accept additional applications for at least 1 full day following the Most Recently Posted Date. Please submit applications in a timely manner as there is no guarantee the posting will be available beyond the applicable deadline.
Original Posting Date
9/8/2026
Most Recently Posted Date
9/8/2026
Principal uses artificial intelligence tools to assist in reviewing and evaluating job applications, fraud prevention, and candidate matching and comparisons. These AI tools support our human recruiters in the initial review process but do not make final hiring decisions without human involvement. By submitting your application, you acknowledge this use of AI in our recruitment process. Please review our Workforce (U.S.) Privacy Notice for more details on our practices and your data privacy rights.
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Principal is seeking a Business Intelligence Analyst III within our Retirement & Income Solutions (RIS) Data & Analytics team! In this role, we are looking for someone who is technically skilled in Power BI and SAS and familiar with other BI platforms. This individual will help shape the organization's BI strategy by evaluating reporting and analytics tools, participating in enterprise governance discussions, and identifying innovative ways to deliver insights through emerging technologies such as AI, agentic solutions, and LLMs.
This role will serve as an active participant in the enterprise BI Steering Committee, helping evaluate and guide decisions on analytics and reporting technologies, including which tools to adopt, optimize, or retire. The ideal candidate brings an experimental mindset, continuously exploring opportunities to improve how insights are delivered through emerging technologies such as AI, agentic solutions, and LLMs rather than relying solely on traditional reporting approaches. This individual will also develop a strong understanding of the RIS business, own existing reporting solutions, and support ongoing ad hoc analytics and reporting needs.
What You'll Do
- Develop and maintain dashboards, reports, and data visualizations that enable business decision-making.
- Serve as a BI subject matter expert, recommending improvements to reporting tools, processes, and analytics capabilities.
- Participate in enterprise BI governance and tool evaluation efforts, helping guide decisions on platform adoption, optimization, and retirement.
- Own existing reports and support ad hoc analytics requests.
- Explore innovative approaches to analytics, automation, AI, and self-service reporting.
- Partner with business leaders to understand reporting needs and deliver actionable insights.
- Promote data governance, data literacy, and effective use of BI tools across the organization.
- Bachelor's degree or equivalent experience.
- 4 years of experience in business intelligence, analytics, or reporting.
- Experience with Power BI and familiarity with other BI platforms such as Tableau, Qlik, Looker, Domo, or Sisense.
- Proficiency in SQL, DAX or other query languages.
- Strong data visualization, reporting, and business analysis skills.
- Demonstrated curiosity and an innovation mindset, with the ability to challenge traditional approaches and recommend new solutions.
- Experience working with business stakeholders to translate data into meaningful insights.
- Experience with Snowflake and modern cloud data platforms.
- Experience with AI, generative AI, LLMs, copilots, or agentic solutions to enhance analytics and reporting.
- Experience evaluating or implementing analytics tools, technologies, and reporting solutions.
- Demonstrated curiosity and an innovation mindset with a focus on continuous improvement.
Salary ranges below reflect targeted base salaries. Non-sales positions have the opportunity to participate in a bonus program. Sales positions are eligible for sales incentives, and in some instances a bonus plan, whereby total compensation may far exceed base salary depending on individual performance. Actual compensation for all roles will be based upon geographic location, work experience, education, licensure requirements and/or skill level and will be finalized at the time of offer.
Salary Range (Non-Exempt expressed as hourly; Exempt expressed as yearly)
$85000 - $134000 / year
Salary Details
The following locations are examples of market-specific salary ranges across different geographies.
- Wichita, KS: $85,000 - $100,000 / year
- Des Moines, IA: $90,000 - $105,000 / year
- Charlotte, NC: $95,000 - $110,000 / year
- Chicago/Minneapolis: $104,000 - $122,000 / year
- Los Angeles/New York City: $112,000 - $134,000 / year
Flexible Time Off (FTO) is provided to salaried (exempt) employees and provides the opportunity to take time away from the office with pay for vacation, personal or short-term illness. Employees don’t accrue a bank of time off under FTO and there is no set number of days provided.
Pension Eligible
Yes
Work Environment
This role offers in-office, hybrid (blending at least three office days in a typical workweek), and remote work arrangements (only if residing more than 30 miles from Des Moines, IA, Raleigh, NC, or Charlotte, NC). You’ll work with your leader to figure out which option may align best based on several factors.
Work Authorization/Sponsorship
At this time, we're not considering candidates that need any type of immigration sponsorship now or in the future or those needing work authorization for this role. (This includes, but is not limited to students on F1-OPT, F1-CPT, J-1, etc.)
Nonimmigrant Workers and Green Card for Employment-Based Immigrants
Investment Code of Ethics
For Principal Global Investors positions, you’ll need to follow an Investment Code of Ethics related to personal and business conduct as well as personal trading activities for you and members of your household. These same requirements may also apply to other positions across the organization.
Experience Principal
At Principal, we value connecting on both a personal and professional level. Together, we’re imagining a more purpose-led future for financial services – and that starts with you. Our success depends on the unique experiences, backgrounds, and talents of our employees. And we support our employees the same way we support our customers: with comprehensive, competitive benefit offerings crafted to protect their physical, financial, and social well-being. Check out our careers site to learn more about our purpose, values and benefits.
Principal is an Equal Opportunity Employer
All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, or veteran status.
Posting Window
We will accept applications for 3 full days following the Original Posting Date, after which the posting may remain open or be removed based upon applications received. If we choose to post the job again, we will accept additional applications for at least 1 full day following the Most Recently Posted Date. Please submit applications in a timely manner as there is no guarantee the posting will be available beyond the applicable deadline.
Original Posting Date
9/8/2026
Most Recently Posted Date
9/8/2026
Principal uses artificial intelligence tools to assist in reviewing and evaluating job applications, fraud prevention, and candidate matching and comparisons. These AI tools support our human recruiters in the initial review process but do not make final hiring decisions without human involvement. By submitting your application, you acknowledge this use of AI in our recruitment process. Please review our Workforce (U.S.) Privacy Notice for more details on our practices and your data privacy rights.
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Salary : $85,000 - $134,000