Business Strategy Analyst Lead

Company: USAA
Location: Converse
Posted on: August 8, 2022

Job Description:

Purpose of JobThis position offers a work from home option.

Uses quantitative and qualitative analysis to provide thought-leadership on evolving industry trends, market developments, USAA's strategic direction, regulatory environment, and macroeconomic trends for the business unit. Provides insights and information-based context for key stakeholders in the business unit to effectively manage, influence, and impact line of business strategy.Job RequirementsAbout USAAUSAA knows what it means to serve. We facilitate the financial security of millions of U.S. military members and their families. This singular mission requires a dedication to innovative thinking at every level.Tasks and Responsibilities:

• Identifies and manages existing and emerging risks that stem from business activities and the job role.
• Ensures risks associated with business activities are effectively identified, measured, monitored, and controlled.
• Follows written risk and compliance policies, standards, and procedures for business activities.
• Leads discussions with key stakeholders to communicate information learned from analyses, provide input into line of business strategy development, and drive and influence business decisions.
• Leads integration of the analytic strategy and business strategy.
• Leads and oversees efforts to identify key business assumptions and hypotheses around line of business strategy. -Continuously refines hypotheses and identifies business questions to explore further.
• Develops the analytical framework and blueprint to answer business questions identified in the business portfolio, product, or member experience.
• Collaborates with key stakeholders to evaluate and uncover strategic insights related to Profit & Loss performance including Product Strategy, Pricing, Marketing, Sales, Credit Risk, Distribution Channels, and Member Experience.
• Applies expert analytical rigor to define outcome measures, improve prioritization, increase agility in decisioning, improve ability to evaluate progress towards business outcomes, and to evaluate risks to strategic goals.
• Effectively influences and drives strategic agreement utilizing subject matter expertise and interpersonal and negotiation skills.
• Serves as a team lead and provides guidance and on-the-job training to team members.Minimum Education and Experience:
  • Bachelor's Degree in Business, Science, Finance, Economics or related discipline; OR 4 years of related experience (in addition to the minimum years of experience required) may be substituted in lieu of degree.
  • 8 years of data & analytics or strategy consulting experience; OR -a minimum of -6 years of data & analytics or strategy consulting experience and up to 2 years of progressive functional business relevant experience within the respective industry of responsibility (i.e. P&C, Bank, Finance, Marketing etc.) for a total of 8 years of combined experience; OR -Advanced Degree in Business, Science, Finance, Economics or related discipline and 6 years of experience in data/analytics, strategy consulting or functional business experience within the respective industry of responsibility (i.e. P&C, Bank, Finance, Marketing, etc.). -
  • Experience identifying business needs and leading strategic plans driven by qualitative/quantitative analysis and market insights.
  • Strong analytical skills with experience using hypotheses-driven problem solving.
  • Extensive experience leading and performing complex data analysis using various data analytics tools (i.e. Microsoft Excel, Tableau, R, Python).
  • Experience influencing business decisions.
  • Experience working with leadership teams to identify key opportunities to develop and enhance business strategy using quantitative and qualitative analytics.Preferred Skills:
    • Experience partnering with marketing, product and bank channel delivery to forecast acquisition performance.
    • 2 or more years using core consulting skills of research, analysis, presentation and attention to detail in a professional setting.
    • Experience collecting, refining, and preparing quantitative and qualitative data for analytics and visualization.
    • Experience using a variety of data tools and collecting data from various data sources (SQL, SAS, Hadoop, Python, Snowflake).
    • Exceptional written and verbal communication skills with ability to form cross-partner collaboration to get results.When you apply for this position, you will be required to answer some initial questions. - This will take approximately 5 minutes. - Once you begin the questions you will not be able to finish them at a later time and you will not be able to change your responses.Compensation:USAA has an effective process for assessing market data and establishing ranges to ensure we remain competitive. You are paid within the salary range based on your experience and market position. The salary range for this position is: $117,600 - $211,700.Employees may be eligible for pay incentives based on overall corporate and individual performance or at the discretion of the USAA Board of Directors. Geographical Differential: Geographic pay differential is additional pay provided to eligible employees working in locations where market pay levels are above the national average. - Shift premium will be addressed on an individual-basis for applicable roles that are consistently scheduled for non-core hours. - - -Please click on the link below for more details.Relocation assistance is not available for this position.#FSB

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