Business Intelligence (BI) Analyst

American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee; New York (NY); Hybrid; USD 80,000 - 100,000; Full time

Job summary

American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee is seeking a Business Intelligence Analyst to serve as a data analytics expert within the GP&A team. You will translate business needs into actionable analytics, develop Power BI dashboards, and support fundraising, financial, and strategic priorities.

The role emphasizes data quality, governance, and scalable analytics, partnering with IT and business stakeholders to deliver self-service reporting and insights. Hybrid work from New York City area.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of experience in business intelligence, analytics, financial analytics, reporting, or related field.
• Strong experience developing and maintaining Power BI dashboards and reporting solutions.
• Ability to translate complex business requirements into practical analytics and reporting solutions, including data modeling, transformation, publishing, refresh management, and performance optimization.
• Strong understanding of data modeling, reporting methodologies, KPIs, and business performance measurement.
• Experience working with data from multiple business systems and integrating disparate data sources.
• Excellent communication and stakeholder management skills.

Responsibilities

• Provide data-driven insights to support fundraising, financial, operational, and strategic decisions.
• Translate business needs into reports, dashboards, KPIs, scorecards, and analytics.
• Develop and maintain Power BI dashboards and self-service reporting tools.
• Analyze data to identify trends, risks, opportunities, and actionable insights for leadership.
• Design data models that integrate information across systems.
• Automate reporting and improve standards, definitions, and documentation.

Skills

Power BI dashboards

Data modeling

Analytics & reporting

Stakeholder management

Data quality & validation

Education

Bachelor's degree in business, finance, analytics, information systems, data science, or related field

Tools

RE NXT

Power Query

Power BI development tools

Job description

Business Intelligence (BI) Analyst

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Description

The Business Intelligence Analyst serves as a data analytics expert within the Gift Processing &Analytics (GP&A) team, providing data-driven insights, reporting, and decision support to advance fundraising, financial, and strategic priorities. This role is responsible for understanding business needs, translating them into actionable analytics solutions, and driving the adoption and effective use of data across the department.

The ideal candidate brings 5+ years of experience in business intelligence, analytics, financial planning, reporting, or a related field, with strong experience developing dashboards and reporting solutions in Power BI. The role works closely with business stakeholders and partners with IT and data teams as needed to ensure high-quality data, scalable solutions, and effective analytics capabilities.

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What will you do as a BI Analyst

• Serve as GP&A's business intelligence and analytics lead, providing data-driven insights that support fundraising, financial, operational, and strategic decision-making.
• Partner directly with business stakeholders to understand priorities and translate business needs into meaningful reports, dashboards, KPIs, scorecards, and analytical solutions.
• Develop, enhance, and maintain Power BI dashboards, scorecards, and self-service reporting tools that enable effective performance management and decision-making.
• Analyze complex business data to identify trends, risks, opportunities, and actionable insights for leadership and key stakeholders.
• Design and maintain data models that integrate information across fundraising, finance, budgeting, and other relevant business systems.
• Develop reporting and analytics solutions that improve visibility into business performance, planning, forecasting, and outcomes.
• Drive reporting automation, standardization, and process improvements to increase efficiency, scalability, and consistency across GP&A.
• Validate BI outputs against source data, resolve discrepancies, and maintain supporting business logic documentation.
• Establish and maintain reporting standards, definitions, KPIs, and documentation to promote consistent interpretation and use of data.
• Partner with IT, and other technical teams as needed to support data availability, integration, governance, and reporting requirements.
• Act as a business-facing subject matter expert on analytics and business intelligence, helping stakeholders understand and effectively leverage data.
• Promote adoption of analytics and self-service reporting by providing guidance, training, documentation, and ongoing support to business users.
• Translate analytical findings into clear business narratives and recommendations that enable leadership to make informed decisions.
• Continuously identify opportunities to improve reporting capabilities, data accessibility, analytical processes, and the overall use of data across GP&A.

What qualifications are required to be our Business Intelligence Analyst

• 5+ years of experience in business intelligence, data analytics, financial analytics, reporting, or a related field.
• Strong experience developing and maintaining Power BI dashboards and reporting solutions.
• Demonstrated ability to translate complex business requirements into practical analytics and reporting solutions, including data modeling, data transformation, publishing, refresh management, and performance optimization
• Strong understanding of data modeling, reporting methodologies, KPIs, and business performance measurement.
• Experience working with data from multiple business systems and integrating disparate data sources.
• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills, with the ability to identify meaningful trends and translate findings into actionable insights.
• Excellent communication and stakeholder management skills, with the ability to work effectively with both business and technical teams.
• Experience driving reporting automation, standardization, and process improvement.
• Strong attention to data quality, accuracy, and detail.
• Experience with RE NXT, Power Query and other Power BI development tools is a plus.

Additional Preferred Skills and Competencies:

• Ability to manage multiple priorities and projects while operating effectively in a collaborative, business-focused environment.
• Bachelor's degree in business, finance, analytics, information systems, data science, or a related field preferred.
• Experience supporting fundraising, finance, budgeting, planning, or nonprofit operations is a plus.
• Passion for humanitarian work and/or global Jewish service strongly preferred

Additional Details

• Employment Type: Full time
• Hours: 35 Hours/week 8:45 AM – 4:45PM
• Location: Hybrid from New York, NY in office Tuesdays and Thursdays
• Reports to: Director of Gift Processing & Analytics
• Job Function/Department: GP&A

What are the compensation and benefits for a Business Analyst?

This is a full-time position paid semi-monthly at a salary of $80,000-$100,000 per year; in determining where a candidate falls in that range JDC considers several factors, including skills and experience, internal equity, and cost of living in location of work. This role is exempt per the FLSA.

We offer an excellent benefits package, including