Senior Business Analytics Specialist

Modern Analytics & Insights function endeavors to foster an insights-driven culture; to encourage and enable positive business outcomes across the organization by driving right behaviors and decisions through bold insights.

• Applies expertise to determine industry-leading analytical tools and techniques to address business questions.
• Guides and partners with others to execute analyses, resolve analytical challenges, interpret results across relevant contexts, and provide actionable insights and recommendations to business stakeholders.
• Determines factors and/or data types/frameworks to include in the evaluation of the impact of business, product, and/or operational decisions that provide relevant assessments of impact.
• Ensures that evaluations can account for anticipated risks and applies learnings from previous evaluations.
• Synthesizes results across evaluation instances, identifies relevant connections to other work, and makes recommendations for next steps linked to strategic business goals.
• Leverages appropriate types and sources of data and/or metrics, understands how business needs translate into data requirements and evaluates sufficiency of data sources, determines needs for integrating additional data, and identifies, anticipates, and addresses gaps and data quality issues with data providers, in partnership with other teams.
• Leverages relevant data, frameworks, and/or analyses from other teams, and ensures that data access and quality issues are addressed.
• Identifies and promotes methods that create efficiency in core work related to analytics and reporting that are reusable, readily discoverable by decision-makers, self-service, and directed to meaningful interpretation of data that drive business decisions and impact.
• Recommends and socializes optimal methods for sharing, standardizing, and scaling insights.
• Evaluates the viability and relevance of automated methods and efficiency gains that leverage Artificial Intelligence (AI) for use in reporting, and/or analysis to recommend when they should become standard practices.
• Leverages working relationships within and across teams to ensure quality data sources, methodologies, as well as the appropriate application of analytical tools and processes, and drives their adoption, to facilitate relevant insight generation, reporting, and interpretation.
• Proactively engages stakeholders to identify and act on opportunities to leverage resources and solutions that were instrumental to success in similar contexts, and consults across teams on decisions related to analyses, insights reporting, and/or their interpretation.
• Develops appropriate presentations that tell stories of analyses, including dashboards, reports, data visualizations, self-service platforms, slides, and talking points that highlight relevant insights.
• Synthesizes details across analyses and reporting platforms into a cohesive story that serves to inform business decisions, and identifies opportunities to improve efficiency of reporting and presentations.
• Builds understanding of their area of the business across multiple areas, links internal business topics to relevant external trends, and anticipates business problems including how external trends can impact internal business.
• Proactively anticipates business questions and identifies appropriate insights or plausible analytical solutions to suggest in response.
• Engages with and understands business stakeholder needs and translates that into technical requirements.
• May coach others to help them broaden business knowledge.

• Master's Degree in Mathematics, Analytics, Engineering, Computer Science, Marketing, Business, Economics or related field AND 3+ years experience in data analysis and reporting, business intelligence, or business and financial analysis
• Bachelor's Degree in Statistics, Finance, Mathematics, Analytics, Engineering, Computer Science, Marketing, Business, Economics or related field AND 4+ years experience in data analysis and reporting, business intelligence, or business and financial analysis
• Equivalent experience

• Health insurance
• 401k matching
• Flight privileges
• Discounts on products and services
• Educational resources
• Generous time away
• Giving programs
• Opportunities to network and connect

Microsoft is an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to age, ancestry, citizenship, color, family or medical care leave, gender identity or expression, genetic information, immigration status, marital status, medical condition, national origin, physical or mental disability, political affiliation, protected veteran or military status, race, ethnicity, religion, sex (including pregnancy), sexual orientation, or any other characteristic protected by applicable local laws, regulations and ordinances.