Senior Business Analyst
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Location: Redmond, WA 98052
Description:
The XboxGamingDevicesEcosystemteamis looking for a Senior Business Analyst who has a proven track record of breaking through organizational silos to build alignment across teams on decisions related to effective telemetry tools, analyses, and insights reporting . The candidate also has project management capabilities, functions well in a rapidly evolving ambiguous environment without much handholding and is familiar with Gaming hardware world.
Microsoft's mission is to empower every person and every organization on the planet to achieve more. As employees we come together with a growth mindset, innovate to empower others, and collaborate to realize our shared goals. Each day we build on our values of respect, integrity, and accountability to create a culture of inclusion where everyone can thrive at work and beyond.
Responsibilities:
In this role, you will:
Qualifications:
Required/Minimum Qualifications:
in data analysis and reporting, business intelligence, or business and financial
analysis.
o OR Master's Degree in Mathematics, Analytics, Engineering, Computer Science, Marketing, Business, Economics or related field AND 2+ years experience in data analysis and reporting, business intelligence, or business and financial analysis
o OR equivalent experience.
Additional or preferred qualifications :
Bachelor's Degree in Statistics, Mathematics, Analytics, Engineering, Computer
Science, Marketing, Business, Economics or related field AND 6+ years experience
in data analysis and reporting, business intelligence, or business and financial
analysis.
o OR Master's Degree in Mathematics, Analytics, Engineering Computer Science, Marketing, Business, Economics or related field AND 4+ years experience in data analysis and reporting, business intelligence, or business and financial analysis.
o OR equivalent experience.
Certain roles may be eligible for benefits and other compensation. Find additional benefits and pay information here: https://careers.microsoft.com/us/en/us-corporate-pay
Microsoft will accept applications for the role until September 28, 2024.
Microsoft is an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to age, ancestry, color, family or medical care leave, gender identity or expression, genetic information, marital status, medical condition, national origin, physical or mental disability, political affiliation, protected veteran status, race, religion, sex (including pregnancy), sexual orientation, or any other characteristic protected by applicable laws, regulations and ordinances. We also consider qualified applicants regardless of criminal histories, consistent with legal requirements. If you need assistance and/or a reasonable accommodation due to a disability during the application or the recruiting process, please send a request via the Accommodation request form .
Benefits/perks listed below may vary depending on the nature of your employment with Microsoft and the country where you work.
Microsoft's mission is to empower every person and every organization on the planet to achieve more. As employees we come together with a growth mindset, innovate to empower others, and collaborate to realize our shared goals. Each day we build on our values of respect, integrity, and accountability to create a culture of inclusion where everyone can thrive at work and beyond.
Responsibilities:
In this role, you will:
- b uild understanding of the business across multiple areas, links internal business topics to relevant external trends, and anticipates business problems
- inspire others to recognize and understand the importance of data to business goals and engage others to constructively consider how data can be leveraged to improve business, people, and practices
- l everage appropriate types and sources of data and/or metrics, understands how business needs translate into data requirements and evaluates sufficiency of data sources, determines needs for integrating additional data, and identifies , anticipates , and addresses gaps and data quality issues with data providers.
- a ppl y expertise to determine analytical tools and techniques to address business questions
- d etermine factors and/or data types to include in the evaluation of the impact of business, product, and/or operational decisions that provide relevant assessments of impact
- d evelop appropriate presentations that tell stories of analyses, including dashboards, reports, data visualizations, self-service platforms, slides, and talking points that highlight relevant insights
- communicate value, interpret data, and provide relevant insights within and outside the company by walking stakeholders through details, decisions, and methods
- l everage working relationships within and across teams to ensure quality data sources, methodologies, as well as the appropriate application of analytical tools and processes, and drives their adoption, to facilitate insight generation, reporting, and interpretation
- m aintain or develop ties with external network of peers and identif y prospective talent for Microsoft research pipelines, when asked
- a ssist with documentation for team members as requested
- u nderstand and follow ethics and privacy policies when executing processes and/or collecting data/information
- E mbody our Culture and Values
Qualifications:
Required/Minimum Qualifications:
- Bachelor's Degree in Business , Economics, Statistics, Analytics, Engineering, Computer
in data analysis and reporting, business intelligence, or business and financial
analysis.
o OR Master's Degree in Mathematics, Analytics, Engineering, Computer Science, Marketing, Business, Economics or related field AND 2+ years experience in data analysis and reporting, business intelligence, or business and financial analysis
o OR equivalent experience.
Additional or preferred qualifications :
Bachelor's Degree in Statistics, Mathematics, Analytics, Engineering, Computer
Science, Marketing, Business, Economics or related field AND 6+ years experience
in data analysis and reporting, business intelligence, or business and financial
analysis.
o OR Master's Degree in Mathematics, Analytics, Engineering Computer Science, Marketing, Business, Economics or related field AND 4+ years experience in data analysis and reporting, business intelligence, or business and financial analysis.
o OR equivalent experience.
- Master's Degree in Analytics, Engineering, Computer Science, Marketing, Business, Economics or related field AND 4 + years experience in data analysis and reporting, business intelligence, or business and financial analysis. OR equivalent experience
- Enthusiastic, attention to detail, results oriented, organized, motivated and self-driven
- Experience in Data Modeling and/or Data Mining
- Experience with data visualization tools and data cleaning
- Q uality assurance
- Self-starter who not only deal s well with, but thrives in, ambiguity
- Negotiation skills
- A bility to build trusted advisor status and deep relationships across stakeholders (e.g., technical decision makers, business decision makers) through an understanding of customer needs and technologies
- Drive to innovate and solve complex problems while retaining focus on maintaining a profitable business
Certain roles may be eligible for benefits and other compensation. Find additional benefits and pay information here: https://careers.microsoft.com/us/en/us-corporate-pay
Microsoft will accept applications for the role until September 28, 2024.
Microsoft is an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to age, ancestry, color, family or medical care leave, gender identity or expression, genetic information, marital status, medical condition, national origin, physical or mental disability, political affiliation, protected veteran status, race, religion, sex (including pregnancy), sexual orientation, or any other characteristic protected by applicable laws, regulations and ordinances. We also consider qualified applicants regardless of criminal histories, consistent with legal requirements. If you need assistance and/or a reasonable accommodation due to a disability during the application or the recruiting process, please send a request via the Accommodation request form .
Benefits/perks listed below may vary depending on the nature of your employment with Microsoft and the country where you work.