Business Performance Analyst

Diamond-Mower; Sioux Falls (SD); On-site; USD 65,000 - 90,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Full benefits package

Job summary

Diamond Mowers in Sioux Falls, SD, is seeking a Business Performance Analyst to join the Finance team. The role partners with sales, operations, finance, IT, and leadership to translate business needs into clear requirements, actionable insights, improved processes, and measurable results.

You will build dashboards, analyze performance, forecast demand, and support decision-making by delivering robust analyses and business cases.

Qualifications

• Strong analytical and financial acumen in a manufacturing context.
• Ability to translate business needs into reports, processes, and requirements.
• Experience with ERP and BI/dashboard tools to support decision-making.

Responsibilities

• Analyze sales trends, pipeline, pricing, and customer performance.
• Analyze inventory levels, aging, turns, and availability.
• Identify process bottlenecks and productivity opportunities.
• Analyze margins, costs, budgets, and variances.
• Analyze dealer performance, inventory, orders, and retail activity.
• Develop demand and sales forecasts.
• Analyze ERP system and recommend opportunities for improvement.
• Create dashboards and analyses for management decisions.
• Quantify opportunities and measure results.
• Own assigned analyses and improvement initiatives from problem definition through implementation and measurement.

Skills

Analytical skills

Financial analysis

Cross-functional collaboration

Tools

ERP systems

BI dashboards

Job description

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Business Performance Analyst

Full Time Regular Non COGS Sioux Falls - 60th Street, Sioux Falls, SD, US

Business Performance Analyst Role

Diamond Mowers is seeking a Business Performance Analyst to join the Finance team. This role will report to the CFO. This cross-functional role partners with sales, operations, finance, IT, and leadership to translate business needs into clear requirements, actionable insights, improved processes, and measurable business results.

Key Roles

• Analyze performance: Collect, validate, and interpret data; identify trends, risks, opportunities, and variances; establish and monitor KPIs; determine the business drivers behind results; and recommend actions.
• Translate needs into requirements: Convert business problems into clear requirements for reports, systems, processes, and projects.
• Improve processes: Document current-state workflows, identify root causes and inefficiencies, design future-state processes, define controls and ownership, support implementation, and measure results against an established baseline.
• Understand business needs: Partner with leaders and functional teams to clarify problems, define objectives, and uncover root causes.
• Support decisions and lead analytical workstreams: Develop business cases, evaluate options, recommend actions, align stakeholders, support implementation, and measure results against defined objectives.

Responsibilities

Functional Area

BA Responsibility

Analyze sales trends, pipeline, pricing, and customer performance.

Analyze inventory levels, aging, turns, and availability.

Operations

Identify process bottlenecks and productivity opportunities.

Finance

Analyze margins, costs, budgets, and variances.

Dealers / Distribution

Analyze dealer performance, inventory, orders, and retail activity.

Forecasting

Develop demand and sales forecasts.

ERP / Systems

Analyze ERP system and recommend opportunities for improvement

Leadership

Create dashboards and analysis for management decisions.

Quantify opportunities and measure results.

Own assigned analyses and improvement initiatives from problem definition through implementation and measurement. Establish baselines, recommend actions, coordinate stakeholders, and report whether the expected financial or operational benefit was achieved.

Qualifications

The ideal candidate combines strong analytical and financial acumen with practical knowledge of manufacturing operations, commercial performance, business systems, and process improvement. This individual can interpret complex or incomplete data, communicate findings clearly to technical and nontechnical audiences, influence cross-functional decisions, and translate analysis into measurable business results.

Core capabilities include data analysis and visualization; financial and operational analysis; business process mapping and improvement; commercial and dealer analytics; forecasting and scenario modeling; ERP and reporting requirements; project implementation support; and executive-level communication.

Location and Hours:

Location: 60 th St

Hours: 8:00-5:00

Days of Shift: Monday-Friday

• A full benefits package is available for all full-time employees.

Exhibit Diamond Company Values:

CUSTOMER FOCUSED

• Meeting and exceeding internal and external customer expectations is the responsibility of everyone.
• We are committed to being a World Class organization and the greatest partner to our customers.
• We will listen, support, engage with empathy, our work must drive the success of our internal and external customers and team members.

ACCOUNTABILITY

• We will be responsible for the commitments we make, and the expectations placed on us.
• When we fail, we will own it, learn from it and make the appropriate changes.
• We will act with exceptional integrity in everything we do.
• We will be open to receiving and giving feedback.

TEAM PLAYER

• Teamwork and clear communication are paramount to our success.
• We will seek and provide constructive feedback to one another, work as a collaborator, treating peers with respect and dignity, engage all team members as partners to solve problems and support one another with a positive attitude.

SAFETY

• We believe safety must be at the forefront of all our decision-making.
• We will proactively invest in safe solutions and act consciously everyday to keep ourselves, team members and customers safe.

GRIT

• We have the passion, determination and work ethic that gives us the ability to push through, to get to the end goal and recognize the obstacles we have overcome along the way.
• When we tackle a difficult situation, we are determined to never give up and be the best in the industry.

Diamond Mowers is an EEO/AA Employer M/F/Disability/Vet.