Sr. Data Analytics Analyst
Company: Northwestern Mutual
Location: Milwaukee
Posted on: June 25, 2022
Job Description:
AT NORTHWESTERN MUTUAL, WE ARE STRONG, INNOVATIVE AND GROWING.
WE INVEST IN OUR PEOPLE. WE CARE AND MAKE A POSITIVE
DIFFERENCE.What's the role?Provide operational solutions that
improve processes and use data and analytics to enhance business
decision-making. Partner with business and engineering teams to
identify, develop, and implement technical process improvement
solutions. Utilize analytical tools and methodologies that help
business units achieve key strategic areas of focus. Requires
strong technical experience with various process automation tools
and/or analytic models.PRIMARY DUTIES & RESPONSIBILITIES:
- Develops lightweight, business application solutions to improve
and/or eliminate manual work.
- Works in collaboration with other business, engineering, and
development areast to enhance or develop functionalities and tools
that improve the efficiency, accuracy, and quality of work
- Provides quantitative and qualitative data analysis and
reporting of patterns, insights, and trends to decision-makers in
order to drive business decisions and address business
questions.
- Access, gather, and analyze data from multiple internal and
external sources to drive insights into business problems,
decisions, and performance. Creates and produces forecasts,
reports, dashboards, etc. to tell a story through data.
- Produce practical reports that show key performance indicators,
identify areas of improvement into current operations, and display
root cause analysis of problems.
- Creates forecasts, recommendations and strategic/tactical plans
based on business data and market knowledge. Applies analytics and
metrics to improve processes and provide data-driven forecasts that
impact the business (costs, risks, etc).
- Summarizes analysis into user-friendly deliverables by
translating detailed data into business-appropriate communication
and recommendations.
- Delivers results, insights and recommendations (written,
verbal, presentations, etc) to business audience to support
business decisions.
- Provides consultation to business clients and may participate
in cross-functional teams to address business issues.
- Applies new perspectives, creative problem solving, and
inter-departmental connections to improve analytical
capabilities.
- Takes initiatives to design and develop deliverables based on
interpretation of findings and business client needs on a wide
range of analytical topics.
- Creates and is accountable for high quality, value driven work
that drives business outcomes; places the user in the center of
decision making; and collaborates with team for speed, agility and
innovation in work.BRING YOUR BEST. WHAT THE ROLE REQUIRES:
- Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, MIS, Mathematics,
Statistics, Business or related field.
- Minimum of 5 years of experience in research and data analysis,
application of statistical research techniques, or application
development that support business decisions/outcomes.
- Experience implementing process solutions using various
technologies, especially Power Automate, Power Apps, etc.
- Expertise in development and analytical tools such as SAS, SQL,
MS Excel, SPSS, R or other tools. Visualization tooling like
PowerBI or Tableau.
- Demonstrated ability to deliver results and recommendations in
written, verbal and presentation form at an appropriate level for a
variety of business audiences.
- Proven excellence in problem solving, research, quantitative
analysis and analytical working techniques.
- Strong proficiency and desire for learning new platforms,
development, analytic and presentation tools; modeling, analytic
and quantitative techniques.
- Demonstrated ability to gather information systematically;
consider a broad range of issues or factors; grasp complexities and
perceive relationships among problems or issues; use accurate logic
in analysis.
- Significant ability to use data mining tools and analytics in
order to support the initiatives of assigned business areas.
- Ability to generate new ideas and go beyond the status quo;
recognize the need for new or modified approaches.BENEFITS:
- Competitive base pay
- 401K
- Pension plan
- Educational assistance
- Performance based incentive pay
- Medical, dental and vision insurance
- Parental leave
- Caregiver time off
- ---.and moreWe are an equal opportunity/affirmative action
employer and all qualified applicants will receive consideration
for employment without regard to race, color, religion, gender
identity or expression, sexual orientation, national origin,
disability, age or status as a protected veteran, or any other
characteristic protected by law.WE WILL OFFER REASONABLE
ACCOMMODATIONS#LI-POST#IN-POSTGROW YOUR CAREER WITH A BEST-IN-CLASS
COMPANY THAT PUTS OUR CLIENT'S INTERESTS AT THE CENTER OF ALL WE
DO. GET STARTED NOW!W e are an equal opportunity/affirmative action
employer and all qualified applicants will receive consideration
for employment without regard to race, color, religion, gender
identity or expression, sexual orientation, national origin,
disability, age or status as a protected veteran, or any other
characteristic protected by law.If you work or would be working in
Colorado or outside of a Corporate location, please click here for
information pertaining to compensation and benefits.
FIND YOUR FUTUREWe're excited about the potential people bring to
Northwestern Mutual. You can grow your career here while enjoying
first-class perks, benefits, and commitment to diversity and
inclusion.Flexible work schedulesConcierge serviceComprehensive
benefitsEmployee resource groups
Keywords: Northwestern Mutual, Milwaukee , Sr. Data Analytics Analyst, Professions , Milwaukee, Wisconsin
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