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Microsoft Corporation Senior Business Analyst in Redmond, Washington
The Xbox Gaming Devices Ecosystem team is 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:
build 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
leverage 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.
applyexpertise to determine analytical tools and techniques to address business questions
determine 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
develop 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
leverage 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
maintain or develop ties with external network of peers and identify prospective talent for Microsoft research pipelines, when asked
assist with documentation for team members as requested
understand and follow ethics and privacy policies when executing processes and/or collecting data/information
Embody our Culture (https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/about/corporate-values) and Values (https://careers.microsoft.com/us/en/culture)
Qualifications
Required/Minimum Qualifications:
- Bachelor's Degree in Business, Economics, Statistics, Analytics, Engineering, Computer
Science, Marketing, or related field AND 4+ 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 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. ORequivalent 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
Quality assurance
Self-starter who not only deals well with, but thrives in, ambiguity
Negotiation skills
Ability 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
Business Analytics IC4 - The typical base pay range for this role across the U.S. is USD $103,800 - $200,300 per year. There is a different range applicable to specific work locations, within the San Francisco Bay area and New York City metropolitan area, and the base pay range for this role in those locations is USD $133,700 - $219,200 per year.
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. Consistent with applicable law, all qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to age, ancestry, citizenship, color, family or medical care leave, gender identity or expression, genetic information, immigration status, marital status, medical condition, national origin, physical or mental disability, political affiliation, protected veteran or military status, race, ethnicity, religion, sex (including pregnancy), sexual orientation, or any other characteristic protected by applicable local laws, regulations and ordinances. If you need assistance and/or a reasonable accommodation due to a disability during the application process, read more about requesting accommodations (https://careers.microsoft.com/v2/global/en/accessibility.html) .