Sr Analytics Analyst

At Northwestern Mutual, we are strong, innovative and growing. We invest in our people. We care and make a positive difference. 

Principal Accountabilities:

• 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 actionable 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. Utilizes 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.
• Embraces continuous learning, curiosity, and ambiguity.
• Shares best practices with peers through coaching and mentoring around core methodologies, standards and processes.

Minimum Requirements:

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, MIS, Mathematics, Statistics, Business or related field.
• 5+ years of progressively responsible experience in research and data analysis, application of statistical research techniques, or application development that support business decisions/outcomes.
• Expertise in development and analytical tools such as SAS, SQL, MS Excel, SPSS, R or other tool. 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 aptitude 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.
• Initiative to independently design and develop own deliverables while still being a team player.
• Ability and desire to mentor other team members through projects independently from start to finish.
• Ability to be responsive to changing business needs, manage and prioritize concurrent assignments, and handle ambiguity.
• 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.
• Strong customer / client orientation.
• Strong analytical capability with ability to meet deadlines.

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We 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.

Req ID: 26016
Position Type: Regular Full Time
Education Experience: Bachelor's Desired
Employment Experience: 3-5 years
Licenses/Certifications:
FLSA Status: Exempt
Posting Date: 09/03/2019