Business and Strategy Analyst

Responsibilities

• Build analytical tools: Surface data-based insights through dashboards, automated reporting, and presentations that give both our internal stakeholders information critical to make decisions. Drive improvements to our data analysis infrastructure and processes. 

• Establish and monitor KPIs: Monitor day-to-day business, conduct data analysis to identify trends, patterns, and insights that inform business decision-making.

• Help drive product positioning: Leverage customer data to inform product positioning and optimize our scaling efforts. Lead complex analyses on our products, develop case studies, and design experiments to improve product performance.

• Build and maintain key partnerships: Oversee and nurture relationships with key vendors to ensure the consistent delivery of quality service.

• Identify opportunities for automation and process improvement, work with the team to set up processes that allow us to keep scaling.

• Help set strategic priorities: Partner with different teams to build business cases, refine product pricing, and develop incentive structures for our product.

• Lead cross-functional initiatives: Collaborate with cross-functional colleagues in Product, Data Science, Credit, Marketing, Compliance and Engineering.

• Wear multiple hats: Embrace the dynamic nature of our team at this exciting stage. Demonstrate versatility by willingly taking on a variety of tasks, contributing to the multifaceted growth of the team and the company. 

Requirements:

• ​​Motivated by Empower’s mission and determined to create a personable and meaningful experience for our customers

• Minimum of  2+ years work experience in business, strategy, operations, management consulting and/or investment banking

• Strong analytical abilities and are comfortable defining and measuring goals consistently

• Strong customer empathy and experience shaping product direction and execution based on customer needs

• A get-it-done mindset; you’re resourceful and happy to be hands on and in the weeds 

• An interest in addressing complicated and impactful product & business problems

• up your sleeves and building complex financial models in Excel or similar tools.

• Strong strategic thinking, problem solving, and logical structuring abilities; enjoy rolling up your sleeves and building complex models in Excel or similar tools

• Comfort with ambiguity; the ability to independently lay out and test clear hypotheses, and solve problems without well-defined direction

• Excellent verbal and written communication skills

• A strong plus if you:

• Experience in SQL and / or Tableau