At Northwestern Mutual, we are strong, innovative, and growing. We invest in our employees. We care and we make a positive difference.
Key Functions and Responsibilities:
Provides quantitative and qualitative data analysis and reporting on patterns, insights, and trends for decision makers to guide business decisions and answer business questions
Creates and is accountable for high-quality, value-added work that drives business outcomes; puts users at the center of decision-making; and collaborates with the team for speed, agility, and innovation at work
Creates and produces forecasts, reports, tables, etc. to tell a story through data
Use analytics and metrics to improve processes and provide data-driven predictions that impact the business (cost, risk, etc.)
Provide results for department managers and business customers
Provide results, ideas, and recommendations (written, verbal, presentations, etc.) to business audiences to support business decisions
Produce actionable reports that demonstrate key performance indicators, identify areas for improvement in ongoing operations, and demonstrate root cause analysis of issues.
Deep knowledge in at least one area or business domain, with broad understanding of the business and areas surrounding the primary objective
Receive and implement design direction. Implement best practices in data visualization for work results. Seek to understand business processes, user tasks, and, if necessary, capture refined process documents.
Implement best practices, methodologies, standards and processes and share them across teams. Contribute to their development from time to time. Takes initiative to design and develop deliverables based on interpretation of business results and customer needs across a broad range of analytical topics
Provides advice to business clients and may participate in cross-functional teams to solve business problems
Contributes to organizational growth and development by actively sharing findings and ideas across teams and with business clients
Identifies and captures business needs, develops KPI frameworks
Regularly implements new perspectives, creative problem solving, and cross-departmental connections to enhance analytical skills.
Embraces continuous learning, curiosity, and ambiguity. Ability to work collaboratively with technical and non-technical stakeholders.
Qualifications:
Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, MIS, Mathematics, Statistics, Business or related field.
At least 4 to 5 years of professional experience
At least 4 years of work experience in an analytics field
At least 3 years of hands-on experience in analytics field
At least 5 years of progressive and responsible experience in researching and analyzing data, applying statistical research techniques, developing reports or applications that support business decisions/outcomes
Experience in developing and applying analytical tools such as SAS, SQL, MS Excel, SPSS, R or other tools
Visualization tools such as PowerBI or Tableau
Ability to access, collect and analyze data from multiple internal and external sources to gain insights into business problems, decisions and performance
Ability to articulate this knowledge as an expert at the departmental level and may be called upon to provide enterprise-level knowledge to provide detailed analysis. To apply, go to: https://northwesternmutual.wd5.myworkdayjobs.com/CORPORATE-CAREERS/login?redirect=%2FCORPORATE-CAREERS%2Fjob%2FMilwaukee-WI-Corporate%2FSenior-Data-Analyst_JR-42501-1%2Fapply%3Fpk_vid%3Debff8fdb8963afb01736842099d1bc01