Business Analyst

Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis; San Francisco (CA); On-site; USD 83,000 - 132,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical, Dental, Vision

Pre-tax Flexible Spending Account

Backup Child Care Program

Pre-Tax Day Care Flexi

Job summary

Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco is seeking a detail oriented Business Analyst to study and interpret data, support strategic decisions, and enhance workflows across the Supervision Group. The role emphasizes collaboration with stakeholders, data modeling, and the use of Power Platform to implement process improvements.

Ideal candidates have a Bachelor's degree and 2+ years of data analysis experience, with proficiency in MS Office and familiarity with Power BI or Tableau for visualization.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree preferred.
• Typically requires two or more years of relevant experience, performing some form of data analysis.
• Experience collecting, transforming, analyzing, and reporting data to drive business decisions.
• Experience working cross-functionally to meet internal and/or external stakeholder needs.
• Proficiency in MS Office Suite and Power Platform.

Responsibilities

• Ensure compliance requirements are met timely, accurately with an eye for improvement.
• Use data analysis to support decisions on Group operations, strategic planning, and business issues; collect, model, analyze, and interpret data; identify and interpret trends and patterns in datasets to locate influences.
• Prepare and evaluate alternative business workflows; participates in implementation of those workflows leveraging productivity tools such as Power Platform.
• Partner with key stakeholders, sometimes including external parties, to assess and address internal needs and to model the outcome of potential business strategies.
• Participate on team projects/programs to address business issues.
• Monitor and analyze solution metrics to ensure business satisfaction.

Skills

Data analysis

Cross-functional collaboration

MS Office Suite

Power Platform

Education

Bachelor's degree

Tools

Power BI

Tableau

Visio

SQL

Job description

Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco

We are the Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco - public servants with a mission to advance the nation’s monetary, financial, and payment systems to build a stronger economy for all Americans. As part of the nation’s central bank, we are committed to understanding and serving the vibrant, expansive communities of the Twelfth District, which covers the nine western states of the U.S. That means we seek and appreciate new perspectives and build opportunities to learn and grow. At the SF Fed, we approach our work with integrity and a commitment to service.

The Supervision Group is responsible for the supervision and regulation of state member banks (SMBs), bank holding companies, savings and loan holding companies, financial holding companies, bank service providers, trust companies, and foreign banking organizations that are headquartered in the Twelfth District. Supervised institutions range in size and complexity from small community organizations to some of the largest banking organizations in the country.

Solutions drives business enablement across Supervision, including the migration to System platforms. It supports several major programs, that include access management, operational compliance, and administration of Microsoft Teams and SharePoint. The team manages productivity tools to streamline local Supervision and business processes, as well. In addition, Solutions partners with Bank Information Management to support records management, information governance, and compliance across Supervision.

Likewise, the team is responsible for timekeeping, a critical function across the Group. Accurate analysis, data analytics, and compliance are essential to supporting Board and Reserve Bank understanding of resource deployment, business focus, trends, and real-time activities. Solutions is responsible for ensuring all time collection data is consistent, accurate, and timely, applying data analytics to identify trends, measure performance, and inform priorities and tradeoffs.

We are seeking a detail oriented Business Analyst who is eager to learn the business, partner across our Group, and help identify business insights for high-priority objectives. The ideal candidate is an independent thinker and collaborative team player who helps support decision-making and executive recommendations. Day-to-day responsibilities include executing operational processes that support compliance with System and local guidance and expectations. You will also look for ways to improve how the business runs-using productivity tools, business data, and operational knowledge to generate insights and recommend new or modified processes.

Essential Responsibilities

• Ensure compliance requirements are met timely, accurately with an eye for improvement.
• Use data analysis to support decisions on Group operations, strategic planning, and business issues; collect, model, analyze, and interpret data; identify and interpret trends and patterns in datasets to locate influences.
• Prepare and evaluate alternative business workflows; participates in implementation of those workflows leveraging productivity tools such as Power Platform.
• Partner with key stakeholders, sometimes including external parties, to assess and address internal needs and to model the outcome of potential business strategies.
• Participate on team projects/programs to address business issues.
• Monitor and analyze solution metrics to ensure business satisfaction.

Requirements

• Bachelor's degree preferred.
• Typically requires two or more years of relevant experience, performing some form of data analysis.
• Experience collecting, transforming, analyzing, and reporting data to drive business decisions.
• Experience working cross-functionally to meet internal and/or external stakeholder needs.
• Proficiency in MS Office Suite and Power Platform.
• This position requires access to confidential supervisory information, which is limited to "Protected Individuals." Protected Individuals include, but are not limited to, U.S. citizens and U.S. nationals, U.S. permanent residents who are not yet eligible to apply for naturalization, and U.S. permanent residents who have applied for naturalization within six months of being eligible to do so or who will sign a declaration of intent to apply for naturalization before they begin employment.

Helpful but not required

• Experience in programming languages such as R, and Python.
• Proficiency in visualization software e.g., Tableau, Power BI.
• MS Project Manager, Visio, Access, SQL, databases or similar.

Base Salary Range: Min: $82,600 Mid: $107,300 Max: $131,900 (Location: San Francisco)

Final salary and offer will be determined by the applicant's background, experience, skills, internal equity, and alignment with geographic and other market data.

We offer a wonderful benefits package including: Medical, Dental, Vision, Pre-tax Flexible Spending Account, Backup Child Care Program, Pre-Tax Day Care Flexi