Data Analyst

13 Mar 2025

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Overview

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Responsibilities

P&C Analytics in Financial Operations is looking to hire a business data analyst. A business data analyst combines in-depth business knowledge with a high capacity for analyzing data. They visualize and interpret data to provide actionable analysis to support decision-making. Business data analysts look for patterns or trends and use these to make projections. They may also provide easy-to-read reports that simplify data for key business partners.

The key work efforts will include:
  • Using business analytics software to uncover trends, relationships, and insights within the data. And leveraging business knowledge to provide context and proactively share findings.
  • Using historical results, business knowledge, and statistical techniques to develop scenarios of potential outcomes to support decision making.
  • Performing quick analysis to answer business questions in a fast-paced environment.
  • Effectively analyzing data, creating appropriate visualizations, and communicating results of analyses to various levels of management with cohesive, understandable, and appropriate message points, summaries, reports, and presentations.
  • Collaborating with key business partners to understand and communicate trends.
  • Serving as a trusted advisor and strategic thought partner to Executive leadership, collaborating broadly with others across State Farm to enable execution of key enterprise priorities and contributing to strategic, high-impact work.

Qualifications

Required skills:
  • A minimum of 2 years relevant work experience
  • Bachelor's Degree in Business Analytics, Mathematics, Economics, MIS, Statistics, Actuarial Science, Finance or a related field
  • Programming skills in business analytics software (SAS, R, Python, Tableau, Power BI or related)
  • Knowledge and/or experience with database querying, data mining and statistics
  • Advanced MS Excel (VBA) proficiency
  • Qualified candidates will have intellectual curiosity and the technical aptitude to utilize financial, statistical and other types of data to analyze business problems, draw conclusions and articulate recommendations
  • Strong critical thinking and analytical skills.
  • Demonstrated learning agility to quickly learn both new technical skills and business acumen with immediate application of skills.
  • Strong problem-solving and resourcefulness competencies.
  • Demonstrated teamwork and communication competencies.

Additional desired skills:
  • Knowledge/experience related to Life Insurance and Property/Casualty Insurance
  • Experience with AWS environment and willingness to learn more.

Applicants are required to be eligible to lawfully work in the U.S. immediately; employer will not sponsor applicants for U.S. work authorization (e.g. H-1B visa) for this opportunity

HYBRID: Qualified candidates (in or near hub locations listed below) should plan to spend time working from home and some time working in the office as part of our hybrid work environment.

REMOTE: Qualified candidates (outside of hub locations listed below) may be considered for 100% remote work arrangements based on where a candidate currently resides or is currently located.

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  • ID: #49460520
  • State: Texas Richardson 75080 Richardson USA
  • City: Richardson
  • Salary: USD TBD TBD
  • Job type: Permanent
  • Showed: 2023-03-13
  • Deadline: 2023-05-11
  • Category: Et cetera