Services - Senior Business Analyst - Atlanta, GA

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Position Purpose :

The Senior Business Analyst works with the Home Depot Installation Services team in the evaluation, design, development, and implementation of standardized reporting and business processes.

The Senior Business Analyst leverages proven technical abilities to synthesize complex analytical tasks into easily understood data-driven stories.

This individual will act as a strategic thought partner on category strategy and will work collaboratively to create new analytical processes on diverse datasets to solve issues facing the business.

The Senior Business Analyst also continually seeks out opportunities to learn new and hone existing technical skills (e.

g. writing SQL / code, statistics, etc.)

Key Responsibilities :

• 50% Lead all phases of a project's life cycle including defining the business need, establishing criteria and business requirements, understanding the impact to the business, and designing and rolling out the project.
• 25% Serve as a subject matter expert and perform research and / or analysis within assigned projects or category of business.
• 25% Establish and report on metrics of assigned projects or categories to gauge business value.

Direct Manager / Direct Reports :

• Reports to Manager / Sr. Manager.
• No associates report to this role on a permanent basis, but requires the technical leadership of a project work team : may select team members and assess capabilities, provide technical training, provide information necessary to meet work, project or program objectives, evaluate program or project performance.

Travel Requirements :

Typically requires overnight travel less than 10% of the time.

Physical Requirements :

Most of the time is spent sitting in a comfortable position and there is frequent opportunity to move about. On rare occasions there may be a need to move or lift light articles.

Working Conditions :

Located in a comfortable indoor area. Any unpleasant conditions would be infrequent and not objectionable.

Minimum Qualifications :

• Must be eighteen years of age or older.
• Must be legally permitted to work in the United States.

Preferred Qualifications :

• A bachelor's degree or equivalent degree in a field of study related to the job.
• Prior experience in business analytics, planning and analysis, merchandising.
• Skilled in SQL data manipulation and analysis; experience utilizing CTEs, aggregate functions, and joining relational tables together, etc.
• Experience building reports / analyses with analytical tools i.e. Tableau, Excel, PowerPoint.
• Demonstrated experience using advanced Excel functions to support data analytics.
• Proven track record utilizing data-driven storytelling to engage audiences of all levels.
• Strong communication skills including the ability to effectively articulate viewpoint to executive leadership and ability to write compelling executive level presentations.
• Strong analytical skills including demonstrated aptitude with financial analysis and ability to generate insight from large and complex data sets.
• The ability to effectively handle multiple priorities and deadlines simultaneously.

Minimum Education :

The knowledge, skills, and abilities typically acquired through the completion of a bachelor's degree program or equivalent degree in a field of study related to the job.

Preferred Education :

No additional education.

Minimum Years of Work Experience :

Preferred Years of Work Experience :

No additional years of experience.

Minimum Leadership Experience :

None.

Preferred Leadership Experience :

• None.
Certifications :
• None.
• None.

Competencies :

• Strong project management skills, including strong process orientation, ability to work and lead cross-functional teams, strategic thinking, and creative problem-solving skills.
• Analytical; Extensive knowledge of statistical methods and modeling.
• Ability to establish priorities and procedures for accomplishing work within established deadlines; ability to lead multiple projects and manage toward deadlines and deliverables.
• Strong communication and presentation skills, including ability to interact at Officer level; ability to negotiate and persuade.
• Proven success in increasing management roles handling multiple projects with competing deadlines.
• Ability to assimilate extensive amounts of detailed data, analyze and summarize vast amounts of information as well as understand all of the detail supporting the analysis.

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