Overview
This role involves joining a fast-growing consumer app team focused on shopping and savings experiences for customers while driving incremental, sustainable sales for merchant partners.
The organization is seeking a Senior Business Analyst who is a creative, analytical, and technically proficient problem solver—able to connect business dynamics with the technology landscape. Success in this role depends on spearheading cross-functional projects and driving measurable business outcomes.
Responsibilities
- Analysis: Identify business challenges and opportunities for improvement; use analysis to make strategic or tactical recommendations.
- Product: Perform modeling and analytics to support new product and pricing strategies for various lending products.
- Marketing: Support direct-to-consumer marketing efforts for select products and strategic intent for products distributed through the retail channel; build targeted insights to inform the design and development of new customer experiences and breakthrough technology/concepts for go-to-market strategies.
- Credit Risk: Support step-change improvements in credit performance by connecting drivers of future consumer credit trends to historical behavior; create risk models; test hypotheses using rigorous monitoring and analysis.
- Execution: Use problem frameworks; develop hypotheses; test and analyze; develop solutions; scope operational feasibility; lead implementation efforts; and develop a monitoring plan.
- Partnership: Work with colleagues across teams including IT, Sales, Operations, Finance, and others to improve quality, volume, service, and profitability.
- Strategic & analytic orientation: Make decisions and solve problems using analytics; pair conceptual thinking with strong quantitative orientation, given reliance on rigorous analytic marketing and credit risk management.
- Business judgment, leadership, and integrity: Act as a tenacious decision maker with a healthy, aggressive yet responsible approach.
- Communication: Demonstrate strong written and oral communication, strategic influencing, and ability to drive agreement through intellect and interpersonal/negotiation skills.
- Results orientation: Maintain a focus on both short- and long-term goals and execute in uncertain, fast-moving conditions.
Basic Qualifications
- Currently has, or is in the process of obtaining (with the expectation that the required degree will be obtained on or before the scheduled start date), one of the following:
- Bachelor’s degree in a quantitative field: Business, Finance, Accounting, Statistics, Economics, Operations Research, Analytics, Mathematics, Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Software Engineering, Mechanical Engineering, Information Systems, or a related quantitative field
- Master’s degree in a quantitative field (fields listed above) or an MBA with a quantitative concentration
- At least 2 years of professional experience performing analysis.
Preferred Qualifications
- Master’s degree in Business or a quantitative field such as Finance, Economics, Physical Sciences, Math, Statistics, Engineering
- 1+ years of experience in statistical model building
- 1+ years of experience in market research
- 1+ years of experience in SQL querying
- 2+ years of experience in business analysis
- 1+ years of experience in consulting
Compensation & Benefits
- Eligible for performance-based incentive compensation, which may include cash bonus(es) and/or long term incentives (LTI). Incentives could be discretionary or non-discretionary depending on the plan.
- Comprehensive, competitive, and inclusive health, financial, and other benefits supporting total well-being (eligibility varies by full-time/part-time status, exempt/non-exempt status, and management level).
Salary range (full-time, annual):
- Remote (Regardless of Location): $101,100 - $115,400 (Sr. Business Analyst)
- McLean, VA: $111,200 - $126,900 (Sr. Business Analyst)
Note: Salary information applies to candidates hired to perform work within the listed locations and reflects the amount the employer is willing to pay at the time of posting. Part-time salaries are prorated based on agreed regularly worked hours.
Location
- Remote (Regardless of Location), or
- McLean, VA
This role is open to hiring a Remote Employee.
Additional Information
- The organization will consider sponsoring a new qualified applicant for employment authorization for this position.
- Expected to accept applications for a minimum of 5 business days.
- No agencies please.
- Equal opportunity employer committed to non-discrimination in compliance with applicable federal, state, and local laws.
- Drug-free workplace.
- Criminal history will be considered in a manner consistent with applicable laws regarding criminal background inquiries.