Thrivent Financial

We exist to help people achieve financial clarity. At Thrivent, we believe money is a tool, not a goal. Driven by a higher purpose at our core, we are committed to providing financial advice, investments, insurance, banking and generosity programs to help people make the most of all they’ve been given.

At our core, we are a membership-owned fraternal organization, as well as a holistic financial services organization, dedicated to serving the unique needs of our clients. We focus on their goals and priorities, guiding them toward financial choices that will help them live the life they want today—and tomorrow.

Job Summary

The Senior Business Intelligence Analyst is a fully-qualified -level position with responsibility for obtaining, developing and analyzing data, prove/disprove hypotheses, and develop insights. The individual in this role will be expected to consult with divisional leaders to develop business requirements and provide possible solutions and approaches to their analytic needs. This role is expected to exhibit a significant amount of independence in interacting with business leaders and be proactive about opportunities to further analysis that will help the business achieve its goals. Develops a detailed understanding of Thrivent’s products, systems, and processes.

This role will be a part of Finance & Actuarial Division’s Actuarial Services Product Team - F&A Portfolio. This Senior BI Analyst role will be part of a product team (comprised of business intelligence analysts and engineers) that will partner directly with our Finance & Actuarial Division actuaries and leaders.

Job Responsibilities and Duties

• Collaborate with technical resources, business resources, and business owners to: 1) define specific hypothesis/questions to evaluate and analyze, or 2) gather, develop, validate and analyze data and data requirements in support of business operations.
• Conducts complex SQL queries and works with other data extraction, reporting and analytic tools to validate and/or develop analysis and reporting to provide insight.
• Optimizes and automates data extraction to support the business owners.
• Develop plans to evaluate hypothesis/questions, measure performance, and/or produce models and data.
• Partner with business, IT and customers to ensure that the design, execution, presentation, and distribution of actionable insights or data streams can be readily implemented and meets management requirements.
• Lead medium to large sized projects and collaborate, train, and mentor other analysts as needed.
• Performs complex modeling, data mining and analysis projects that inform and support corporate stakeholders. Evaluate/model data utilizing accepted advanced statistical methods.
• Perform regular procedures such as preparing scheduled reports.
• Work with a diverse business community to document as-is and to-be business processes.

Job Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in applied mathematics, statistics, management information systems, actuarial science, or equivalent experience required.
• 5+ years of experience in financial services and/or research and analytics or 4+ years of experience in the actuarial field.
• Advanced skill in using analytics tools (such as Python, SAS, SPSS, Minitab, R, etc.) and mainframe applications in a corporate environment.
• Advanced skill in design and execution of complex statistical modeling and testing involving linear and non-linear regression techniques (e.g. CHAID, CART, ANOVA, MANOVA, LOGISTIC, TTEST etc.).
• Advanced skill with relational databases, data warehousing, data mining and OLAP.
• Advanced skill in experimental design and impact assessment.
• Intermediate skill with data visualization tools (e.g., Power BI, Tableau).
• Solid business acumen working with insurance or investment environments.
• Demonstrated ability to tailor key insights and messages appropriately for audience (senior leader, line manager, etc.).
• Ability to work at both a conceptual and detail level with strong statistical data analysis skills, problem solving and decision making skills.
• Able to translate strategic business logic into technical report requirements and schema design.
• Efficient and effective communications skills with key business partners, tailored to client needs and expectations.
• Effective in leading less experienced resources in large project work, providing assistance in consulting, design, implementation, and/or communication.

Other Critical Factors

• Strong attention to detail, excellent organizational, planning and problem solving skills.
• Able to work with a sense of urgency on multiple projects at the same time.
• Demonstrated ability to work independently, within a stated objective.
• Ability to utilize technology to create reports and/or secure information necessary for decision making in a manner that is readily consumable by leadership.

Additional Information

• This position allows a flexible work arrangement meaning you may work on-site and/or remotely from the Minneapolis, MN area.

Pay Transparency

Thrivent’s long-term growth depends on attracting, rewarding, and retaining people who are committed to helping others thrive with purpose. We accomplish this by offering a wide variety of market competitive compensation programs to attract, reward, and retain top talent. The applicable salary or hourly wage range for this full-time role is $92,538.00 - $125,199.00 per year, which factors in various geographic regions. The base pay actually offered will be determined by a variety of factors including, but not limited to, location, relevant experience, skills, and knowledge, business needs, market demand, and other factors Thrivent deems important.

Thrivent is unique in our commitment to helping people to be wise with money and live balanced and generous lives. That extends to our benefits.

The following benefits may be offered: various bonuses (including, for example, annual or long-term incentives); medical, dental, and vision insurance; health savings account; flexible spending account; 401k; pension; life and accidental death and dismemberment insurance; disability insurance; supplemental protection insurance; 20 days of Paid Time Off each year; Sick and Safe Time; 10 paid company holidays; Volunteer Time Off; paid parental leave; EAP; well-being benefits, and other employee benefits. Eligibility for receipt of these benefits is subject to the applicable plan/policy documents. Thrivent’s plans/policies are subject to change at any time at Thrivent’s discretion.

Thrivent provides Equal Employment Opportunity (EEO) without regard to race, religion, color, sex, gender identity, sexual orientation, pregnancy, national origin, age, disability, marital status, citizenship status, military or veteran status, genetic information, or any other status protected by applicable local, state, or federal law. This policy applies to all employees and job applicants.

Thrivent is committed to providing reasonable accommodation to individuals with disabilities. If you need a reasonable accommodation, please let us know by sending an email to human.resources@thrivent.com or call 800-847-4836 and request Human Resources.