Business Analyst

Western Power Sports (WPS); Boise (ID); Hybrid; USD 60,000 - 80,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading sporting goods company in Boise, ID is seeking a Business Analyst to create impactful visualizations and reporting from key business data. This role involves engaging with various business leaders, automating reports, and ensuring data quality. The ideal candidate has a degree in business administration or a related field, up to 2 years of experience, and expertise in data analysis tools like Excel and Power BI. Competitive benefits and a hybrid work schedule are offered.

Qualifications

• Proven experience as a Business Analyst or similar role, up to 1-2 years of experience.
• Strong analytical skills with attention to detail and accuracy.
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills.

Responsibilities

• Engages with sales, operations, and supply chain business leaders.
• Exercises independent judgment in analyzing and visualizing data.
• Design and deploy business analytics interactive dashboards.

Skills

Analytical skills

Interpersonal skills

Problem-solving

Reporting strategy execution

Education

Bachelor’s degree in business administration, Finance, Computer Science or related field

Tools

Excel

Power BI

Python

SQL

Job description

On-site role based in Boise, ID at the Western Power Sports facility (Monday–Thursday on-site; Friday hybrid). Remote-only applicants will not be considered.

Summary:

The Business Analyst will create impactful visualizations and reporting by collecting, standardizing, analyzing, synthesizing, and automating key business data to improve customer satisfaction, drive profitability, and support broader organizational goals. This role is also responsible for developing and monitoring data quality metrics to ensure that business data and reporting requirements are consistently met.

The ideal candidate brings a strong analytical mindset, excellent interpersonal skills, and the ability to thrive in a fast‑paced environment. Experience shaping and executing reporting strategy for sales teams is highly preferred.

Key Responsibilities:

• Engages with sales, operations, and supply chain business leaders to understand business information needs and objectives.
• Exercises independent judgement and decision making in the researching, analyzing, synthesizing, and visualizing of data to create awareness of key performance metrics, business challenges, and other critical reporting to enable thoughtful, data-driven decisions.
• Exercises discretion and independent judgement in selecting and applying the most suitable analytical tools for both routine and ad-hoc analyses, enabling automation, speed, and accuracy.
• Support business leader data requests and routine performance reporting.
• Work closely with stakeholders to prioritize business and information needs, standardizing and automating reports that monitor critical business performance metrics.
• Identifies, collects, and transforms raw data into meaningful information that can be used to drive business strategies and decision making.
• Design, develop, and deploy business analytics interactive dashboards and reports that provide actionable information & insight
• Makes business direction recommendations and creates business options and alternatives based on insights & findings derived from analytics
• Identifies, defines, and delivers new processes or process improvements (efficiency, accuracy, understandability, usefulness, etc.) based on data-driven insights
• Creates detailed business analysis, outlining problems, opportunities, and solutions.
• Documents and communicates results of all efforts effectively
• Leads projects that solve targeted business challenges, developing project plans and monitoring progress and performance to those plans (example: coordinating the development and overseeing the implementation of a Sales and Operations Planning Process)
• Ensures source data integrity, ensuring data & reporting consistency and alignment.

Requirements:

• Bachelor’s degree in business administration, Finance, Computer Science or related field.
• Proven experience as a Business Analyst or similar role, up to 1-2 years of experience
• Experience in data analysis tools and techniques with Excel, Power BI, Python (or R), and SQL proficiency
• Strong analytical skills with the ability to collect, organize, analyze, and disseminate significant amounts of information with attention to detail and accuracy.
• Knowledge of business structure and the ability to understand new business models quickly.
• Required expertise in driving reporting strategy across sales teams.
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills.
• Strong problem-solving skills and an analytical mind.
• Able to work independently and with others.