Senior Business Strategy Analyst

Role Overview

• Utilize quantitative and qualitative analysis to provide thought-leadership on evolving industry trends, market developments, USAA's strategic direction, regulatory environment, and macroeconomic trends for the business unit.
• Provide insights and information-based context for key stakeholders in the business unit to effectively manage, influence, and impact line of business strategy.
• Collaborate with key stakeholders to identify key business assumptions and hypotheses around line of business strategy.
• Continuously refine hypotheses and identify business questions to explore further.
• Facilitate the integration of the analytic strategy and business strategy.
• Develop the analytical framework and blueprint to answer business questions identified in the business portfolio, product, or member experience.
• Collaborate with key stakeholders to evaluate and uncover strategic insights related to Profit & Loss performance including Product Strategy, Pricing, Marketing, Sales, Credit Risk, Distribution Channels, and Member Experience.
• Apply analytical rigor to define outcome measures, improve prioritization, increase agility in decisioning, improve ability to evaluate progress towards business outcomes, and to evaluate risks to strategic goals.
• Leverage advanced data-driven problem-solving techniques to manipulate and interpret business results.
• Translate findings into insights for strategy management and execution.
• Communicate the significance of strategic insights to senior leaders and other key stakeholders to drive business decisions.
• Provide guidance and on-the-job training to team members.
• Ensure risks associated with business activities are effectively identified, measured, monitored, and controlled in accordance with risk and compliance policies and procedures.

Requirements

• Bachelor's degree in Business, Science, Finance, Economics or related field; OR 4 years of relevant education and/or experience.
• 6 years of data and/or analytics or strategy consulting experience; OR a minimum of 4 years of data and/or analytics or strategy consulting experience and up to 2 years of progressive functional business relevant experience for a total of 6 years combined experience; OR Advanced Degree in Business, Science, Finance, Economics or related discipline and 4 years of experience in data and/or analytics or strategy consulting.
• Experience identifying business needs and managing strategic plans driven by qualitative/quantitative analysis and market insights.
• Demonstrated experience using data analytics to formulate data-driven insights and influence business decisions.
• Experience performing complex data analysis using various data analytics tools (i.e.Microsoft Excel, Tableau, R, Python, SQL, Snowflake, SAS, Adobe Analytics).
• Demonstrated experience in project management.

Tech Stack

• Python
• SQL
• Tableau

Benefits

• comprehensive medical, dental and vision plans
• 401(k)
• pension
• life insurance
• parental benefits
• adoption assistance
• paid time off program with paid holidays plus 16 paid volunteer hours
• various wellness programs
• career path planning and continuing education assistance