Strategic Capacity Planning Lead - Data-Driven Forecasting

Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco; San Francisco (CA); On-site; USD 124,000 - 199,000; Full time

Job summary

Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco seeks a Lead Business Analyst to drive capacity planning and forecasting for the Supervision Group. You will partner with Resource Management and Learning & Development to build predictive models and workforce analytics shaping examiner staffing and strategic investments.

The role requires advanced data analysis, cross-functional collaboration, and strong communication, with travel up to 10% and a base salary reflecting market data for San Francisco.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in statistics, business, economics, finance, or a related field.
• Typically requires eight or more years of relevant experience in strategic planning, capacity planning, resource planning, or workforce management; or an equivalent combination of education and experience.
• Proven analytical skills and problem-solving skills with experience in collecting, transforming, analyzing, and reporting complex data to drive significant business decisions.
• Experience in statistical analysis and modeling forecasts to support demand planning or capacity models within a business planning cycle with familiarity of key staffing metrics such as utilization, productivity, and attrition.
• Strong written and verbal communication skills with the ability to present information clearly and concisely to all levels of leadership.
• Strong analytical/critical thinking skill and ability to apply sound judgment when making decisions of moderate to moderately high complexity with the ability to determine next steps in situations where information is unavailable or ambiguous.
• Prior experience leading cross-functional teams and programs across multiple stakeholder groups, with ability to drive District/System-wide initiatives from inception to execution.
• Proficient in the use of MS Office Suite (Excel), visualization software (Tableau), and programming languages such as SQL, R, Python, etc. to manipulate data and create reporting and visualizations from scratch.
• Willing and able to travel up to 10%.

Responsibilities

• Develop and maintain a capacity plan and forecasting model for Supervision resources, incorporating comprehensive demand forecasts and resource modeling inputs.
• Perform scenario-based planning and modeling to produce recommendations for future needs, assess impacts of strategic initiatives and change, and provide input to tactical scheduling and resourcing plans, including training plans, based on business data and knowledge of business processes/operations.
• Lead the collection, modeling, analysis, and interpretation of complex and/or broad data; identifies and interprets trends and patterns in datasets to support resourcing recommendations or insights and drive implementation of solutions.
• Analyze complex and/or broad data sets to support decisions on future skills needs, resource planning and allocation, strategic changes, and business issues that have a broad or highly significant impact.
• Conduct skills gap analysis across the examiner workforce to identify and prioritize training investments that build a stronger, more capable Supervision team.
• Thinks strategically and can look at business solutions from both top-down and bottoms-up approach and works to creatively solve problems.
• Leads cross-functional District and System-level projects and programs related to resource planning and learning initiatives; project manages ongoing efforts including stakeholder collaboration, meeting management, document organization, and follow-ups.
• Leads team projects/programs to address business issues; manages ongoing initiatives including stakeholder collaboration, meeting management, document organization, and follow ups.
• Produce reports and analyses to monitor resource availability and usage as well as the effectiveness of key learning and development programs.

Skills

Analytical skills

Communication

Forecasting

Cross-functional leadership

SQL

R

Python

Tableau

Excel

Data analysis

Education

Bachelor's degree in statistics / business / economics / finance / accounting

Tools

Tableau

SQL

Python

R

MS Excel

Job description

Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco seeks a Lead Business Analyst to drive capacity planning and forecasting for the Supervision Group. You will partner with Resource Management and Learning & Development to build predictive models and workforce analytics shaping examiner staffing and strategic investments.

The role requires advanced data analysis, cross-functional collaboration, and strong communication, with travel up to 10% and a base salary reflecting market data for San Francisco.