What are the responsibilities and job description for the Business Analyst position at Actalent?
Overview
Job Description:
This financial operations role is focused on providing outstanding support to all departments within our company, including business development, talent acquisition, operations teams and executive leadership. The Actalent SCD Front Office Business Analyst partners with Actalent SCD financial operations leadership team to help develop, manage, maintain, and report on the company's financial and operating performance. This role is critical to our monthly and quarterly commission processes and provides an outstanding opportunity to work with and gain exposure to Actalent SCD's business and leadership teams across the organization. This person must be action-oriented and able to deal with ambiguity. From a technical standpoint, the candidate must understand business processes, workflow and demonstrate an ability to learn and adopt new business intelligence technologies that support showcasing data. Attention to detail, sense of urgency, ability to multi-task and hit deadlines is a must.
Essential Functions:
- Create, generate, and manage a portfolio of financial performance reports on a weekly, bi-weekly, and monthly basis for various departments including executive leadership, delivered through BI Platforms including Tableau & SharePoint, as well as email.
- Ability to analyze and synthesize data and business requirements to support business operations and management and provide reporting and analysis in a consumable format and tell the story behind the numbers verbally and through data visualization
- Make recommendations for and/or create business process changes, process modeling and benchmarking activities to meet customer or operational requirements
- Support operational planning activities such as forecasting & investment recapture Compensation management, tracking, and payout for Actalent SCD Business Development Managers.
- Optimize operational efficiency through innovative thinking, process improvement and system enhancements and best practice sharing
- Effectively manage ad-hoc requests, including stretch assignments and projects as required by leadership
Qualifications:
- 2-5 years' experience as a Business Analyst
- Business Degree is preferred
- Advanced experience with the Microsoft Office tools (specifically MS Excel)
- Excellent interpersonal skills with the ability to work independently and as a strong team player
- Troubleshooting skills and must be an objective, fact-based decision maker
- Manage multiple competing priorities through effective organization and communication
- Excellent communication skills (written, verbal, and interpersonal) & strong facilitation and conflict resolution skills.
- Experience with Tableau, PowerQuery, Salesforce is strongly preferred.
