Staff Analyst

Optimum Communications Inc.; Bethpage (NY); On-site; USD 123,000 - 203,000; Full time

Job summary

Optimum Communications Inc. in Bethpage, NY seeks a Staff Analyst of Finance Analytics to transform video content analytics and support financial strategy with data-driven insights. You will partner with cross-functional teams to analyze data, build models, and inform pricing and performance decisions.

The role requires strong Python and SQL skills, experience with BI tools, and the ability to translate data into actionable business recommendations. Occasional LIC location commuting is expected.

Qualifications

• Advanced Excel skills with experience mining large data sets.
• Advanced SQL experience; BigQuery experience a plus.
• Python experience with statistical packages a plus.
• 8-10 years experience preferred.
• Experience using BI reporting tools (Tableau, MicroStrategy) is preferred.

Responsibilities

• Conduct complex data analysis in support of analytic solutions.
• Capture, document data definitions, business rules, and data quality requirements.
• Provide daily performance drivers from top-line to granular footprints for business leaders.
• Integrate data from multiple sources to produce required data elements.
• Create forecasts, dashboards, and ad hoc reports.
• Interpret data, analyze results, and provide insights on trends and opportunities.
• Prepare data-driven presentations for management and stakeholders.
• Collaborate with CIO's data strategy and roadmaps.
• Identify opportunities to use data to develop new strategies and improve performance.

Skills

Advanced Excel

Advanced SQL

Python

Tableau

MicroStrategy

Experience 8-10 years

Tools

BigQuery

GCP

Job description

Are you looking to Optimize your life? Start your exciting path to a rewarding career today!

We are Optimum, a leader in the fast-paced world of connectivity, and we're seeking driven and enthusiastic professionals to join our team, empower lives, fuel businesses, and drive innovation. Connectivity is no longer a luxury, but a necessity. A career at Optimum means you'll be enabling progress and enhancing lives by providing reliable, high-speed connectivity solutions that keep the world connected. Our successes, now and in the future, are powered by our amazing product, a commitment to our people and culture, and the connections we make in our communities.

If you are resourceful, collaborative, and passionate about delivering consistent excellence, Optimum is for you!

Job Summary

Become a driving force in the transformation of video content analytics and join Optimum to help craft the next chapter of customer engagement and retention. As Staff Analyst of Finance Analytics, reporting to the Senior Director of Finance, Pricing, and IR Analytics, this role is pivotal in refining and strategizing our financial strategy leveraging data analytics. You'll deep dive into data-driven analytics, uncovering key insights that inform our overall strategy. You'll collaborate with a diverse team of experts, leveraging statistics, analytics, and machine learning capabilities to help understand and predict customer behavior to drive favorable financial performance.

Responsibilities

• Conduct complex data analysis in support of various analytic solutions.
• Capture, develop, and document data definitions, business rules, and data quality requirements.
• Be able to quickly provide the business leaders with daily performance drivers from top-line to granular footprints where applicable.
• Integrate data from multiple sources to produce requested or required data elements.
• Create and produce forecasts, reports, ad hoc requests, dashboards, etc.
• Interpret data, analyze results, and provide insights to determine operational impact, trends, and opportunities.
• Develop reports and deliverables for management and communicate with all levels of stakeholders.
• Act as a key partner with business and functional leaders on identifying opportunities and proactively provide key data insights to help them run their business
• Identify and define data quality improvements.
• Create and maintain report forms and formats, information dashboards, data generators, canned reports, and other end-user information portals or resources.
• Ensure compliance with deliverable reporting requirements by performing quality data audits and analysis.
• Be agile and understand business requirements may be ambiguous and business direction could quickly dictate or change direction causing pivot in normal plans
• Identify opportunities to use data to develop new strategies and improve business performance as the business evolves.
• Utilize knowledge of mathematical modeling and other optimization methods to perform quantitative and qualitative data analysis.
• Support and contribute to CIO's overall vision and strategic roadmap for data and tools
• Perform other duties as requested.

Qualifications

• Advanced Excel skills with experience mining large data sets
• Advanced SQL Experience, GCP-Big Query experience a plus
• Python experience a must, including statistical packages a plus
• 8-10 years experience preferred
• Experience using Business Intelligence reporting tools (e.g., Tableau and MicroStrategy) is preferred Support broader management meetings such as: P&L meetings, Monthly or Quarterly Business Reviews, and other various Leadership meetings with visual or analysis support
• Ability to work independently and in a collaborative and dynamic team environment.
• Ability to handle multiple projects and priorities effectively
• Strong analytical and interpretive skills. Ability to quickly identify business problems and opportunities.
• Be solution oriented and ideate, own, and manage out of the box data solutions that could be leveraged for future business strategies and solutions
• Clear and straightforward communication skills, both orally and in writing
• Ability to communicate with all levels of management and company personnel
• Strong organizational and project management skills. Capability to document, prepare, and present data-driven presentations
• Strategic thinking and ability to anticipate future trends, needs, and expectations
• Ability to commute to LIC location when needed

At Optimum, every action and interaction we take part in, is driven by our three Guiding Principles: Do What's Right, Drive One Optimum, and Make It Happen. These aren't just words, they help us build trust, create real community, and embrace new ways of thinking. Our employees are empowered to do the right thing for our customers and co-workers and to recognize and reward these behaviors when we see them. It's all part of the bigger picture of "Be The Difference" where each employee knows they have the power to enact real change, share new ideas, and understand that learning never stop.

All job descriptions and required skills, qualifications and responsibilities for a particular position are subject to modification by the Company from time to time, in the Company's discretion based on business necessity.

We are an Equal Opportunity Employer committed to recruiting, hiring and promoting qualified people of all backgrounds regardless of gender, race, color, creed, national origin, religion, age, marital status, pregnancy, physical or mental disability, sexual orientation, gender identity, military or veteran status, or any other basis protected by federal, state, or local law.

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Pay is competitive and based on a number of job-related factors, including skills and experience. The starting pay rate/range at time of hire for this position in the posted location is$123,379.00 - $202,694.00 / year. The rate/range provided herein is the anticipated pay at the time of hire and does not reflect future job opportunity.

Applicants must be authorized to work for ANY employer in the U.S. Please note that at this time, we do not provide visa sponsorship for employment.