Western Alliance Bancorporation

Preferred and Small Business Banking - Analytics and Reporting Lead Analyst

Western Alliance Bancorporation$95K — $115K *
Finance & Insurance
5 - 7 years of experience
Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • 5+ years experience in analytics, reporting, finance or banking operations.
  • Bachelor's degree or equivalent experience.
  • Intermediate knowledge of banking operations, including deposits and loans.
  • Advanced skills in SQL, Power BI, Excel, and data visualization tools.
  • Experience leading reporting initiatives and mentoring junior analysts.
  • Project management and stakeholder engagement experience.
  • Excellent communication skills, both verbal and written.

Responsibilities

  • Lead development of dashboards, reports, and automated solutions with BI tools.
  • Serve as contact for reporting intake, requirements gathering, and prioritization.
  • Translate business needs into analytical metrics and visualizations.
  • Provide technical guidance and review for reporting outputs and documentation.
  • Coordinate team priorities and monitor reporting pipelines.
  • Maintain data governance and validate data quality.
  • Conduct advanced analysis to identify performance drivers and operational gaps.
  • Collaborate with stakeholders to ensure reporting solutions meet business needs.
  • Mentor analysts in SQL, visualization standards, and analytical best practices.
  • Contribute to executive presentations and report summaries.
  • Identify process improvement opportunities to streamline reporting.

Benefits

  • Competitive salaries and ownership stake in the company.
  • Comprehensive medical and dental insurance.
  • Generous time off policies.
  • Strong 401k matching program.
  • Tuition assistance program for ongoing education.
  • Employee volunteer and wellness programs.
  • Opportunity to gain deep insights into successful business operations.
Full Job Description
Job Title:
Preferred and Small Business Banking - Analytics and Reporting Lead Analyst

Location:
CityScape

What you'll do:
Serves as a senior technical lead within the Analytics and Reporting team, helping guide the day-to-day delivery of reporting solutions, analytics projects, dashboards, and data insights. This role acts as a primary partner for complex reporting requests, supports workload coordination, mentors analysts, and ensures reporting outputs are accurate, well-documented, and aligned with business needs.
  • Lead the development and enhancement of complex dashboards, scorecards, recurring reports, data models, and automated reporting solutions using BI tools, SQL, Excel, and enterprise data sources.
  • Serve as a key point of contact for reporting intake, requirements gathering, prioritization support, and solution design for high-impact business requests.
  • Translate business questions into analytical approaches, metric definitions, reporting logic, and clear visualizations that support decision-making across PSBB.
  • Provide technical guidance and quality review for reporting deliverables, including SQL logic, data validation, dashboard design, documentation, and user experience.
  • Partner with the Manager to coordinate team priorities, monitor request pipelines, identify delivery risks, and support resource planning for reporting and analytics work.
  • Support data governance by maintaining consistent metric definitions, documenting data sources, validating outputs, and escalating data quality issues when identified.
  • Conduct advanced analysis, trend monitoring, exception reporting, and root-cause analysis to identify performance drivers, operational gaps, and improvement opportunities.
  • Collaborate with stakeholders across Operations, Product, Compliance, Finance, Risk, Technology, and regional leadership to ensure reporting solutions are accurate, actionable, and aligned to business objectives.
  • Mentor analysts on SQL development, dashboard design, data visualization standards, documentation practices, and analytical storytelling.
  • Contribute to executive presentations, leadership updates, project readouts, and recurring business reviews by summarizing insights and recommended actions.
  • Identify opportunities to streamline manual processes, automate repeatable reporting, improve dashboard usability, and increase reporting scalability.
  • Support a collaborative team culture focused on accuracy, ownership, continuous learning, and consistent delivery.


What you'll need:
  • 5+ years of related experience in Analytics, Reporting, Analysis), Analytics, business intelligence, finance, banking operations, or a similar field.
  • Bachelor's degree or equivalent experience required.
  • Intermediate knowledge of general banking operations, including deposit operations, loan administration, treasury management and/or other commercial banking products and services.
  • Advanced proficiency in SQL, Power BI, Excel, data visualization, and reporting automation preferred.
    Experience leading complex reporting initiatives, mentoring analysts, coordinating project work, or serving as a technical subject matter expert.
  • Intermediate knowledge and experience in business intelligence processes and experience implementing analytical change in growth environments; experience in project management and stakeholder engagement capabilities.
  • Intermediate knowledge and experience in overseeing automation initiatives or process improvement projects preferred. Familiarity with workflow optimization and integration of automated solutions is a plus.
  • Advanced speaking and writing communication skills.
  • Occasional travel required.


Benefits you'll love:
We offer all the important things you'd want - like competitive salaries, an ownership stake in the company, medical and dental insurance, time off, a great 401k matching program, tuition assistance program, an employee volunteer program, and a wellness program. In addition, you'll have the opportunity to bolster your business knowledge, learning the ins and outs of how successful companies operate and manage their finances, giving you invaluable hands-on experience to help grow your career!

About Western Alliance Bancorporation

Western Alliance Bancorporation is a bank holding company that provides a range of banking and related services to businesses and individuals. The company was founded in 1994 and is headquartered in Phoenix, Arizona. Western Alliance Bancorporation operates through its subsidiary banks, which include Western Alliance Bank, Bank of Nevada, and Bridge Bank. The company offers a variety of products and services, including commercial and industrial loans, real estate loans, treasury management, and wealth management. Western Alliance Bancorporation is committed to providing exceptional customer service and has received numerous awards and recognitions for its performance and growth.
Learn more about Western Alliance Bancorporation
Size
3,139 employees
Market Cap
$6.2 billion
Industry
Net Income
$506.6 million
5 Year Trend
+18.8%
NASDAQ

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