Summary
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 heart, 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.
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.
Job Description
Job Duties and Responsibilities
- 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.
- 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.
Required 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 SAS, SPSS, Minitab, R, etc.) 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.
- 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.
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.
