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Business Analyst

JLL
Palo Alto, California, US
Full-time

We are looking for an experienced business analyst to join our team and take charge of leading and executing complex data analysis initiatives.

Your main responsibility will be to translate data insights into actionable strategies that will help our clients achieve their business goals.

While professional experience and qualifications are key for this role, make sure to check you have the preferable soft skills before applying if required.

You will utilize data, tools, and innovative technologies to deliver valuable insights and solutions. Your intellectual curiosity, creative problem-solving skills, and technical expertise will be instrumental in overcoming various data challenges.

WHAT YOU'LL DO

  • Lead the account BI strategy for a JLL account team (potentially multiple), including building strong working relationships with account leadership and integrating into account team routines as appropriate.
  • Devise and promote creative data visualizations, reports, tools, and dashboards to derive actionable real-time insights from business data pertinent to the audience.
  • Perform data management analysis, including retrieving data from multiple sources, profiling, transforming, validating, and migrating data to centralized data platforms.
  • Validate and clean input data, ensure assumptions are correct, manage outliers appropriately, raise issues with stakeholders, and help find the root cause of those issues.
  • Proactively identify opportunities to optimize the performance and efficiency of existing processes / procedures.
  • Engage with colleagues and customers to reverse engineer existing business processes and identify core business requirements for enhanced deliverables and data infrastructure.
  • Work closely with stakeholders to understand business questions / requirements / opportunities, and support the accurate business usage and interpretation of JLL or client data as well as provide insight / answers to meet business needs.

WHAT WE'RE LOOKING FOR

  • Bachelor's degree, Master's degree, or evidence of expert skill in BI, data science, computer science, econometrics, operations research, statistics, Information Management, or related analytical field.
  • 5+ years of BI, business, or data analyst experience, ideally in an enterprise environment across multiple application systems and business functions.
  • 2+ years of working experience in a BI visualization tool (Tableau preferred) and in an ETL tool (Alteryx preferred), and strong SQL skills with experience developing complex queries.
  • Ability to lead BI project delivery through the development lifecycle : including requirements analysis, managing project stakeholders, and managing development through to production, training, go-live and phasing in of support & maintenance structures.
  • Ability to successfully maintain working relationships with account team stakeholders with minimal oversight, in a manner that ensures BI projects are prioritized and executed based upon business impact and level of effort for each deliverable.
  • Excellent presentation skills (verbal and written); strong understanding of analytic / statistical concepts with the ability to comfortably explain them while leading meetings with business stakeholders of all levels.
  • Reliable, self-motivated, and self-disciplined individual capable of planning and executing multiple projects simultaneously within a fast-paced remote environment.

Preferred

  • Having a broad understanding of the Corporate Real Estate business.
  • Ability to manage and oversee work for a team of analysts.
  • Development experience in SharePoint Power Applications and SSRS (Report Builder).
  • Business analysis, consulting / advisory and / or project or client management experience.
  • Working experience in analytical toolkit (e.g. SPSS, SAS, R or Python).
  • Certification in BI software tools and / or an impressive public portfolio of BI-related content.
  • Experience with Agile methodologies.

WHAT'S IN IT FOR YOU

Join an industry leader and shape the future of commercial real estate. Deep investment in cutting-edge technology to power your work.

Comprehensive and competitive benefits plan. A supportive, caring and diverse work environment designed for your growth and well-being.

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