Business Analyst Advisor

Pathward, N.A.; Oregon; Hybrid; USD 86,000 - 145,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health insurance

401(k) retirement benefits

Life insurance

Disability benefits

Paid time off

Job summary

Pathward, N.A. is seeking a senior data analytics professional to align technology with business strategy, improving reporting capabilities and forecasting accuracy.

You will lead the development and maintenance of reports, dashboards, and analytical models to maximize business performance, partnering with stakeholders across the organization. Ideal candidates bring 7+ years of analytics experience with Tableau and Power BI, strong data visualization skills, and a proven ability to translate

Qualifications

• Advanced expertise in data visualization, data modeling, and end-to-end analytical solution design.
• Champions intuitive, trusted analytics and promotes self-service adoption across business teams.
• Communicates effectively with cross-functional partners and translates business needs into analytics solutions.

Responsibilities

• Uses knowledge of business and data structure to identify where data can solve problems.
• Participates in development and maintenance of reports and models.
• Maintains historic and forecast metrics for decision-making.
• Prepares daily, weekly, monthly, and quarterly reporting packages with variance analysis.
• Drives standard definitions of data elements and supports data quality initiatives.
• Identifies opportunities to reduce manual processes and improve controls.
• Creates ad hoc reports by querying data repositories.
• Collaborates with internal and external partners for data support.
• Develops a consistent view of product performance and operational support functions.

Skills

Data visualization

Data modeling

Analytical solution design

Business partnership

End-user adoption

Communication

Interpersonal savvy

Collaboration

Business acumen

Technical skills

Education

Bachelor's degree or equivalent education and work experience. Master's degree preferred

Tools

Tableau

Power BI

Job description

We are a hybrid, remote-office company dedicated to growing our talent anywhere!We have onsite locations in: Sioux Falls, SD, Phoenix, AZ, Louisville, KY, Troy, MI, Franklin, TN, Easton, PA. At Pathward, we take tremendous pride in our purpose to create financial inclusion for all. We are a financial empowerment company that works with innovators to increase financial availability, choice, and opportunity for all. We strive to remove barriers that traditional institutions put in the way of financial access, and promote economic mobility by providing responsible, secure, high quality financial products. We are a team of problem solvers and innovators who celebrate our differences and know that our unique perspectives make us stronger and well-positioned for success. We celebrate, and embrace, our team members through our *HUMBLE*HUNGRY*SMART approach, and we believe that we are strongest when we embrace the voices of our employees, customers, partners, and the communities we serve.

About the Role

Aligns technology solutions with business strategies to improve business reporting capabilities, enhance technical analyses, improve forecasting accuracy, facilitate operational planning and refine other such processes to maximize business performance.

What You Will Do

• Uses knowledge of business and data structure to discover and/or anticipate problems where data can be used to solve the problem.
• Actively participates in initial and continual development, as well as on-going maintenance of reports and models.
• Maintains and refines historic and forward-looking business metrics and statistics that can be used to help guide decision making.
• Assists in the creation and compilation of daily, weekly, monthly and quarterly reporting packages, highlighting results and variance analysis.
• Identifies and executes opportunities for process improvement and standardization across business lines.
• Drives standard definitions around key data elements and identify and support projects related to achieving data consistency, availability and quality.
• Provides support, and assists in, driving the identification and implementation of technology solutions to reduce manual processes, enhance controls, improve cycle times, and support consistency.
• Generates one-time, ad hoc reports by crafting custom queries against the data repository.
• Works closely with internal and external partners to obtain supporting information and data.
• Develops a consistent view of product performance and operational support functions.
• Other duties as assigned.

What You Will Need

• Bachelor's degree or equivalent education and work experience. Master's degree preferred
• Typically requires a minimum of 8 years of related experience with a bachelor's or equivalent.
• 5+ years work experience preferably in Payments (or adjacent industry)
• 7+ years of experience developing reporting and analytical solutions with Tableau and Power BI

Distinguishing Characteristics

• Distinguished by advanced expertise in data visualization, data modeling, and end-to-end analytical solution design, combined with a strong focus on business partnership and end-user adoption.
• Serves as a champion for intuitive, trusted, and actionable analytics by translating complex business needs into scalable analytical solutions, establishing visualization and analytical best practices, and enabling users to confidently leverage data for decision-making.
• Operates as a trusted advisor across business and technical teams and promotes responsible self-service analytics through engagement, education, and continuous improvement.
• Communicates Effectively
• Interpersonal Savvy
• Collaborates
• Business Acumen
• Functional/Technical Skills

Salary range

$86,000 - $145,000

This role is also eligible for an annual performance-based incentive opportunity.

Benefits

• Pathward offers a comprehensive benefits package for eligible employees, including health insurance, 401(k) retirement benefits, life insurance, disability benefits, paid time off, and more.

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We provide equal employment opportunities (EEO) to all employees and applicants for employment without regard to race, color, ethnicity, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, transgender status, pregnancy, national origin, age (age 40 and over), disability, genetic information, marital status, hair texture or hairstyle, ancestry, service in the uniformed services, protected veteran status, status as a victim of domestic violence or any other class protected by federal, state and local laws.

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