LendingTree

Senior Business Analyst

LendingTree$105K — $115K *
Business Services
Less than 5 years of experience
Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • Outstanding analytical problem-solving skills for complex issues.
  • Strategic mindset able to prioritize key business levers.
  • Pragmatic approach balancing deep analysis with actionable insights.
  • Excellent communication and interpersonal skills for effective partnerships.
  • Hands-on and proactive, capable of independent work.
  • A collaborative team player, well-liked by colleagues.
  • Bachelor's Degree in Engineering, Statistics, Business, or similar quantitative field; 3+ years of analytics experience.

Responsibilities

  • Drive analytic insights to support strategy and budget for business vertical.
  • Manage performance metrics like lead volumes and revenue to meet goals.
  • Analyze data attributes to uncover trends and enhance product development.
  • Recommend strategies based on competitor analysis and industry reports.
  • Develop models to optimize profit and business performance.
  • Collaborate with Marketing, Sales and Product teams for growth through analysis.
  • Utilize in-house analytics tools to monitor and understand performance.

Benefits

  • Hybrid work schedule with three days in-office (Tue-Thu) and two remote days (Mon & Fri).
  • Opportunity for significant autonomy in project execution.
  • Collaborative work environment across key departments.
  • Chance to impact decision-making at a strategic level.
Full Job Description
*This role requires a hybrid schedule in our Charlotte, NC office; Tuesday-Thursday in-office, Monday and Friday remote. Additionally, this position does not offer visa sponsorship.*

ROLE

Senior Business Analyst

Charlotte, NC, United States

*This role requires a hybrid schedule in our Charlotte, NC office; Tuesday-Thursday in-office, Monday and Friday remote. Additionally, this position does not offer visa sponsorship.*

THE POSITION

You absolutely love data (unstructured and structured), testing hypotheses, and arriving at data-driven recommendations that have an immediate impact on the business. You are passionate about communicating insights as much as you are about discovering them in the first place. You constantly ask questions about how to use analytics to improve the business. Is there a better way to identify responsive customers? Who is the best lending partner we should match to a customer? Are there new data sources out there that would help us make better decisions?

RESPONSIBILITIES
• Drive analytic insights and provide recommendations to support development of the strategy, administration, optimization, budget and P&L of your business vertical.
• Daily management of performance, including lead volumes, revenue, margins, and related performance metrics, to ensure accomplishment of performance goals.
• Provide focused analysis of data attributes to understand patterns and trends, and offer insights to improve business revenue and product improvements / development.
• Recommend new strategies after conducting internal analysis, researching competitor campaigns and digesting industry reports, tracking the resulting initiatives, and reporting on the financial impact of your work.
• Develop analytical frameworks and models to optimize company profit and vertical performance.
• Collaborate closely with Marketing, Sales and Product teams to strategically grow your business vertical through actionable analysis.
• Become proficient with in-house analytics tools to track and understand full-funnel performance.

QUALIFICATIONS
• Outstanding analytical problem-solving skills. You know how to rip apart difficult problems and construct elegant solutions.
• Strategic mindset: you can focus an organization on key business levers without getting lost in daily details. You see both the forest and the trees.
• Pragmatic: you understand the 80/20 rule and know when deep analysis is required versus when simpler solutions suffice. Your recommendations are clear and implementable.
• Outstanding communication and interpersonal skills.
• Hands-on approach.
• Proactive mindset: you regularly check in with your manager but can run independently with a ton of autonomy.
• Collaborative and team-oriented. People like working with you.

SKILLS AND EXPERIENCE
• Bachelor's Degree in Engineering, Statistics, Business, or similar quantitative field.
• 3+ years of analytics experience, performing data-driven analysis and delivering actionable insights.
• Demonstrated track record of successfully managing analytics projects from initiation to execution, including prioritization, cross-functional collaboration, and delivery.
• Strong proficiency in SQL, Python or R, Excel, Tableau (or equivalent viz tool), and Snowflake (or similar data warehousing technologies).
• Experience working with large-scale and complex consumer data sets, deriving meaningful insights and recommendations.
• Experience in consumer financial services analytics (e.g., credit cards, personal loans, small business loans) or a strong understanding of financial consumer products and related market trends is highly desirable.

ADDITIONAL REQUIREMENTS
• Competitive spirit.
• Inquisitive mindset.
• Desire to roll up your sleeves and dive deeply into analytical work.
• Comfort and ability in effectively communicating with C-level executives.

Base salary: The base pay range for this position is $105,000 to 115,000 however, base pay offered may vary depending on internal factors, job-related knowledge, location and candidate experience

About LendingTree

LendingTree is an online lending exchange that connects consumers with multiple lenders, banks, and credit partners who compete for business. The company is headquartered in Charlotte, North Carolina and was founded in 1996. LendingTree provides a marketplace that allows consumers to shop and compare various financial products such as mortgages, personal loans, credit cards, and insurance products. The company generates revenue by charging fees to its partners for each closed loan or service provided to a consumer. LendingTree has been recognized as one of the largest online lending marketplaces in the United States.
Learn more about LendingTree
Size
1,407 employees
Market Cap
$234.2 million
Industry
Net Income
-$48.2 million
Founded
1998
5 Year Trend
+23.4%
Revenue
$909.9 million
NASDAQ

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