Business Analyst Advisor New

Pathward; United States; Hybrid; USD 86,000 - 145,000; Full time

Job summary

Pathward is seeking a seasoned analytics professional to align technology solutions with business strategies, improving reporting capabilities, forecasting, and operational planning. The role emphasizes data-driven insights, cross-functional collaboration, and scalable analytical solutions.

You will develop and refine reports, models, and metrics, while driving standardization and data quality across business lines, enabling confident decision-making and efficiency improvements.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree or equivalent education and work experience; Master’s degree preferred.
• Typically requires a minimum of 8 years of related experience.
• 5+ years work experience preferably in Payments (or adjacent industry).

Responsibilities

• Aligns technology solutions with business strategies to improve reporting capabilities and forecasting accuracy.
• Develops, maintains, and enhances reports and models for business decision-making.
• Maintains historical and forward-looking business metrics and statistics.

Skills

Data visualization

Data modeling

Analytical solution design

Business partnership

End-user adoption

Communication skills

Interpersonal savvy

Business acumen

Functional/Technical skills

Education

Bachelor's degree or equivalent

Master’s degree preferred

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 area 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*SMARTapproach, 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)

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
• Business Acumen
• Functional/Technical Skills

The responsibilities listed above are not all inclusive and may be changed at any time.

Salary range: $86,000 – $145,000

The salary range reflects the minimum and maximum target for a new hire in this role. Individual pay within the range will be determined by multiple factors which can include but are not limited to a candidate’s experience, qualifications, skills, and location. Your recruiter can share more about the specific salary for your location during the hiring process. Ranges may be modified in the future.

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

Pathward is an equal employment opportunity employer and considers candidates for roles without regard to their race, sex, national origin, ethnicity, age, disability or any other category protected by law.

Who we are:

Our commitment to inclusion is woven into our DNA. We believe that we are strongest when we embrace the voices of our employees, customers, partners, and the communities we serve.

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.

Applications will be accepted for a minimum of 3 days after posting, and there is no predetermined date by which applications should be submitted.

Knowingly submitting false information will result in disqualification for consideration of future positions, termination of employment and forfeiture of other rights.

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