Decision Analyst Job Description
Decision analyst
provides technical support for Informatica’s enterprise data warehouse, business intelligence and master data management environments including the development of enhancement requests and defect resolution.
Decision Analyst Duties & Responsibilities
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Sample responsibilities for this position include:
Build data products that address internal and external business needs using analytic tools/languages such as R, python, and SAS, BI tools such as Tableau
Strong communication skills with the ability to translate business questions into data analysis and models including presenting the outcomes from these analyses
Working with large structured and unstructured data sets
Engaging with different teams/clients to test hypotheses and develop analytics to deliver new business insights
Defining and developing data mining algorithms for advanced analysis and prediction
Engaging with stakeholder and decision makers who need empirical data to drive service and product offerings that will have a huge impact on the business
To deliver empirical data to stakeholder and decision makers who drive customer and service delivery together with new innovations and existing product offerings
Establish, update, implement, and/or promote Company and/or local policies, procedures, and programs
Acquire insights in the organisation of Nestlé Belgilux
Ensure timely dissemination of reports and updates of tools
Decision Analyst Qualifications
Qualifications for a job description may include education, certification, and experience.
Licensing or Certifications for Decision Analyst
List any licenses or certifications required by the position: SAS, CPA, CHFP, CMA, ACCA, CIMA, EPIC, MBA
Education for Decision Analyst
Typically a job would require a certain level of education.
Employers hiring for the decision analyst job most commonly would prefer for their future employee to have a relevant degree such as Bachelor's and Master's Degree in Finance, Statistics, Economics, Accounting, Mathematics, Business, Engineering, Information Science, Computer, Computer Science
Skills for Decision Analyst
Desired skills for decision analyst include:
Data warehouse and MI environments and practices
Data warehouse and MI environments and practises
IBM Marketing Suite
Python
R
Financial and management accounting
Statistical/econometric modeling
Business rules and underwriting strategies in place for assigned lines of business
Customer segmentation
IBM Affinium Suite
Desired experience for decision analyst includes:
Clear leadership and an open, values-driven culture
Opportunities for learning and personal development
The tools, teamwork and support you need to do a great job
Recognition of your potential and rewards for your contribution
The help to build the career that is right for you
B-degree in Statistics, Mathematics, Informatics, Computer Science, Engineering or Chemistry is essential
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Our company is growing rapidly and is searching for experienced candidates for the position of decision analyst. Please review the list of responsibilities and qualifications. While this is our ideal list, we will consider candidates that do not necessarily have all of the qualifications, but have sufficient experience and talent.
Responsibilities for decision analyst
- Establish efficient working relationship with business controllers
- Promote the Finance Function and the best practices
- Point-of-contact for clients with business solution definition through campaign management and business intelligence tools and/or processes
- Audits post-production changes to ensure service level agreement compliance
- Execute complex campaigns which may include, but is not limited to, the review of campaign specifications, working with clients to validate and obtain sign-off of client deliverables and dynamic campaign execution
- Execute complex Custom Client Report Services - utilize necessary tools
- Develop, maintain and improve client relationship through increased client communications
- Execute and analyze decision support processes and data to measure campaign efficiency, data accuracy, data integrity, operations performance, customer satisfaction, and cost effectiveness
- Ensure compliance with established procedures, project requirements and service level agreements through audits
- Provide ownership to the research process of multiple technical operations / services
Qualifications for decision analyst
- Challenging work that makes a difference to people
- 2 -5 years Technical/Managerial experience Data Mapping, Modelling
- Experience in Programming in HTML
- Extensive analytic experience preferably within, digital Telco, Retail, hospitality or financial services
- Experience of digital applications
- Knowledge of Data Mining, Machine Learning, text analysis, Excel, SAS and Matlab
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Our growing company is hiring for a decision analyst. We appreciate you taking the time to review the list of qualifications and to apply for the position. If you don’t fill all of the qualifications, you may still be considered depending on your level of experience.
Responsibilities for decision analyst
- Analyze demand forecast and Revenue Management optimization model results, monitoring data integrity and results while evaluating effectiveness
- Administrative responsibilities such as taking ownership of existing reports and migrate legacy reporting and analysis to SAS
- Provide of financial and non-financial reports to local management (Variance Reports, Transfer Prices, Total Delivered Cost reports, ad hoc reports ) and to the Group
- Implement and operate the Price Forecasting & Value realization tools across categories managed above markets in close collaboration with the category & Commodities controllers
- Provide full transparency on main business KPIs across Nespresso via the establishment of regular financial and non-financial reports to Finance and General management
- Understand and consolidate input from controlling teams on underlying reasons of performance
- Aggregate and consolidate input from Controlling teams on short and mid-term forecasts, targets or any other financial KPIs when a global group view is needed
- Design new portfolio tools to provide the information that Portfolio Managers, Traders and Marketers need to manage risk and create value or better decision-making
- Provide Portfolio Managers and Traders new insights or processes that lead to the creation or better management of long-term portfolio value
- Analyze, model and value generators, hedges, trades and marketing deals as per business needs
Qualifications for decision analyst
- Advanced user ability in MS Excel
- Statistical Knowledge/Skill (Correlation, multivariate regression )
- Communication and Presentations skills (Create story around data)
- Flare
- Proven capability in strategy decision builds
- Understanding of risk systems, principals and working knowledge of systems
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Our company is looking for a decision analyst. We appreciate you taking the time to review the list of qualifications and to apply for the position. If you don’t fill all of the qualifications, you may still be considered depending on your level of experience.
Responsibilities for decision analyst
- Develops business/analytical knowledge to understand business objectives
- Supports team members in gathering, consolidating and validating business assumptions relevant to the solution strategy, prior to initiating and throughout the analytical process
- Learns to apply innovative and quantitative analytical approaches to draw conclusions and make recommendations to answer the business objective and drive the appropriate change
- May conduct appropriate exploratory data analysis (EDA) techniques on candidate data sets
- Learns to thoroughly documents assumptions, methodology, validation and testing to facilitate peer reviews
- Seeks to gain knowledge from more experienced team members to resolve issues and to identify appropriate issues for escalation
- Assists in the preparation and presentation of analytical results and updates to all levels of management
- Responsible for development and distribution of management data/reports and decision-making tools used throughout the organization
- Position will utilize combined application of business knowledge and intermediate-advanced systems skills to perform complex data-mining and analysis while ensuring the accuracy and integrity of the data
- Position will seek to streamline and create reporting efficiencies within the organization through the use of various systems, software applications and web-based opportunities
Qualifications for decision analyst
- 3 to 5 years of experience in a financial analyst role
- Advanced knowledge of statistical tools (SAS, SPSS, E-Guide, E-Miner) to mine data and build predictive models using a variety of methods (linear/logistic regression, CRT, CHAID, etc) used for segmentation, response modeling, defection modeling
- Strong analytic and statistical skills, experience in business use of statistics a pre-requisite
- Financial Understanding financial statements, time value of money, return on investment, internal rate of return
- Excellent knowledge of MS Office (particularly in Excel and PowerPoint)
- Drive for collaboration and initiatives
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Our growing company is looking to fill the role of decision analyst. To join our growing team, please review the list of responsibilities and qualifications.
Responsibilities for decision analyst
- Experience with other programming languages (Python, Java, C#) a plus
- Work with Strategic Sourcing, Global Operations, Global Procurement Finance Lead, and Global Supply Chain teams to streamline and improve the sourcing processes for $9 billion in annual spend
- Provide financial analysis support, including savings calculation validation and spend data analysis (including support to manufacturing plants where needed) for spend categories and assigned region(s)
- Provide analytical support and leadership in developing, managing, and communicating the Procurement functional spend budget, LRP, and forecast in consultation with the Global Procurement Finance
- Manage the rebates / refunds for the Procurement and plant operations
- Provide policy and governance support, through the development of compliance training
- Provide training to Procurement organization on topics of DOA and BAC-UP
- Consistently provide proven, formal mentorship
- Manage and execute multiple Level complex campaigns of various types, which may include, but is not limited to, the review of campaign specifications, working with clients to validate and obtain sign-off of client deliverables and dynamic campaign execution
- Manage, execute and analyze decision support processes and data to measure campaign efficiency, data accuracy, data integrity, operations performance, customer satisfaction, and cost effectiveness
Qualifications for decision analyst
- Ability to build strong, collaborative business and technical relationships other business partners
- Demonstrated project management skills with ability to develop, facilitate and bring to successful conclusion
- Strong communication skills, both verbal and written with ability to translate information so that users can effectively understand and make meaningful informed decisions
- Ability to analyze laws and regulations
- Web Service development and integration
- Ability to use data retrieval and manipulation tools such as SQL, Brio Query, Business Objects, in conjunction with visual data tools to present data clearly to non-technical audiences
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Our growing company is hiring for a decision analyst. To join our growing team, please review the list of responsibilities and qualifications.
Responsibilities for decision analyst
- Considered internal expert in designed component / campaign processes associated with executing Campaigns, Custom Client Reports and complex Datamart Build services such as the Data Mart build process, reporting and analytics and the campaign execution process
- Considered internal expert in reporting processes
- Execute various reporting mechanisms which may include manual (non-automated) and/or complex Custom Client Report Services - utilizing necessary tools
- Drive, develop, maintain and improve client relationship through increased client communications
- Demonstrated ability to own / drive communicate with clients and internal stakeholders
- Budget/Forecast] Support with forecast planning based on bottom up customer analysis and marketing efforts planned to drive results
- Prioritization]Prioritize projects to balance the support of broad initiatives, recurrent reporting and proactive analysis with the direct requests of the Destination marketing team
- Reporting] Develop and manage the distribution of standardized reporting related to Destination performance with in-depth analysis to formulate insights based on identified customer motivators, behavioral drivers, and marketing programs impacting customer decision making
- Ad Hoc Analysis]Provide one off analysis as need to help answer real time Destination requests and identify items that should be standardized and set up as reoccurring reporting
- Standardization] Ensure processes, tools and documentation are in place to support efficient and consistent analysis
Qualifications for decision analyst
- 0-3 years using SAS in an analytical environment to drive business decisions
- 0-3 years working with SAS Enterprise Miner
- 0-3 years experience with large relational databases
- 0-3 years experience extracting data from multiple source systems and translating this data into meaningful analyses, reports and recommendations
- 0-3 years experience in data manipulation using Oracle SQL querying tools such as Oracle SQL*Plus, SQL Navigator, Toad
- If no experience, must be able to demonstrate proficiency in SAS and SQL