OverviewAnalysts use problem-solving principles, processes and methods and complementary software applications to support client engagements and have a direct and significant impact on deliverables to clients. Your work will be guided by more experienced team members, but you will work with autonomy.
Our employee-owners pride themselves on their ability to apply deep analytical rigor and innovative thought that assist clients in understanding and solving a myriad of challenging resource planning and management problems.
This position is located Troy, MI.
Responsibilities- Support a new, fast-paced, high visibility client in making data-driven decisions.
- Develop a thorough understanding of your clients and their needs; overall project objectives and their relationship to client needs; how your work fits in achieving project objectives; how other project team members' work relates to your work and project objectives (i.e., acquire situational awareness).
- Establish digital processes to facilitate workflows, automate processes, and collect data. Implement Power Apps and Power Automate solutions to replace data calls with automated solutions that allow for rapid insights.
- Develop Power BI dashboards summarizing data stored on the client environment (Flankspeed) and publish Power BI products to a production environment with automated daily data refresh from the underlying Excel files.
- Identify and implement opportunities to improve client workflows through results driven automation best practices
- Support establishment of a robust data architecture and enterprise data management process. Collect and aggregate existing data from authoritative sources, develop and implement necessary extract-transform-load processes that load data into a centralized repository for analysis.
- Support development of the necessary data pipelines from external sources such as ADVANA, Palantir, Azure, etc., to transform raw data into analysis-quality data through easy, low-cost continuing operations to ensure up-to-date data.
- Support development of data governance and guidance documentation required to capture data necessary for perform execution functions to include the data format, structure, and periodicity of reporting.
- Prepare written documentation (e.g., technical reports, presentations) describing the data and analytical techniques used, results produced and associated insights and recommendations
- Verbally explain/defend in-process and completed work to colleagues and clients in informal and formal settings
- Develop proficiency in various software applications to support solving client problems in an efficient, repeatable, intuitive, and transparent manner
Qualifications- Bachelor's degree in a quantitative discipline
- Minimum of 3 years of quantitative analysis and problem-solving experience
- Experience utilizing process automation tools, preferably power automate, to streamline data collection and streamline program actions
- Ability to independently understand and digest the current client workflow and identify potential avenues for process automation improvements
- Self-starter who is creative, inquisitive, quantitative, and enjoys solving challenging problems in a collaborative environment
- Ability to effectively communicate technical work in writing and verbally
- Ability to manage multiple deadlines and work products at the same time
- Candidates must be U.S. Citizens
- Active Secret Clearance
Desired- Experience supporting the Navy and/or a rapid capabilities office
- Familiarity with Advana, Palantir, or other enterprise data platforms.
- Experience in data languages like R, Python or SQL
- Experience with Power Apps and other Power Platform tools
