Business Analytics Consultant

Springfield, MA, United States

Business Analytics Consul tant

Financial Planning & Analysis Team

Full-Time

Hybrid: Springfield, MA or Boston, MA

The Opportunity

The Finance Visual Analytics Team is seeking a motivated individual with strong technical and analytical skills to join the team as a Business Analytics Consultant. You will be responsible for creating new digital reporting solutions such as dashboards, simulators, and automated workflows to provide MassMutual’s finance community with the toolkit needed to keep pace in a digitally transforming environment.

The Team

The Finance Visual Analytics team, within Financial Planning and Analysis (FP&A) is composed of professionals with diverse backgrounds in finance, consulting, technology, and data analytics. Our focus is collaborating with Finance to develop digital reporting solutions and analytical capabilities. We build relationships across business and technical teams to foster collaborative execution on initiatives and generate a pipeline of digital reporting needs. Our team provides business value by delivering dashboards and simulation tools to MassMutual leadership that facilitate data-driven decision making.

The Impact

As a Business Analytics Consultant, you will lead the development of new digital reporting products as well as continuously iterate and improve upon the current products deployed today. Our ideal candidate is an intuitive problem solver with the drive and ability to deliver creative solutions using data. You will be engaged in all phases of the product development lifecycle from concept to completion. Your responsibilities would include, but are not limited to:

Discover, Develop, and Deliver

Rapidly prototype concepts to bring ideas to life

Run discovery sessions with internal customers to learn about the business, the problem to solve, and gather functional requirements

Translate business needs into technical requirements that can be delivered timely and effectively

Design, develop, and deploy highly interactive dashboards, reports, and other visualizations that are easy to understand, enable self-service, and provide secure and efficient access to data

Conduct unit testing and troubleshooting

Assist with customer training to enhance adoption of new releases

Perform project-based data analyses

Continuously Improve and Be Agile

Work collaboratively with subject matter experts and technical teams (Data Management, Enterprise Technology) to implement data enhancements that will improve reporting or overall enablement

Continuously iterate on existing products using most up-to-date capabilities and functionality of BI solutions (e.g., MicroStrategy, Tableau, etc.)

Stay current on latest technology trends within BI industry and MassMutual

Teaming

Be a thought partner to other Finance peers for the design, management, and documentation of new dashboards and digital reporting

Contribute to the team’s inclusive environment that emphasizes open communication, knowledge sharing, and timely solution delivery

Collaborate on a team of technologists working to establish business analytics best practices that drive improved efficiency and decision making across the organization

The Minimum Qualifications

B.S. degree in a quantitative field ( e.g. Computer Science, Engineering, Math, Economics)

3+ years of overall experience with focus on delivery of Business Intelligence, Analytics , or a related field

3+ years of experience with data visualization tools including Tableau and/or MicroStrategy

3+ years of e xperience with eliciting detailed requirements that clearly define customer needs

3+ years of experience in clearly document ing technical workflows and specifications

1+ years of demonstrated skill in using SQL

The Ideal Qualifications

Strong written and oral communication, ideally across varying audiences

Passion for dashboard building with a focus on data storytelling and optimizing the user experience

Ability to deliver complex projects using effective planning, pragmatic approaches, and collaboration despite obstacles and ambiguity

Experience with project management tools and methodologies such as Jira, Confluence, and Scrum

Experience with Python

Interest in growing your technical and analytical skills while also sharing your current knowledge with other members of the team

Possess attributes of being curious, committed to vision, passionate, fun, an achiever, and having a sense of urgency

What to Expect as Part of MassMutual and the Team

Regular meetings with Finance Visual Analytics team

Focused one-on-one meetings with your manager

Access to mentorship opportunities

Networking opportunities including access to Asian, Hispanic/Latinx, African American, women, LGBTQ, veteran and disability-focused Business Resource Groups

Access to learning content on Degreed and other informational platforms

Your ethics and integrity will be valued by a company with a strong and stable ethical nosiness with industry leading pay and benefits

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MassMutual is an Equal Employment Opportunity employer Minority/Female/Sexual Orientation/Gender Identity/Individual with Disability/Protected Veteran. We welcome all persons to apply. Note: Veterans are welcome to apply, regardless of their discharge status.

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