Planning & Analysis Analyst II, International

Your Next Career Opportunity Planning & Analysis, Analyst II - International

The Planning & Analysis Analyst II - International will support the Planning & Analysis department in creating and maintaining various models, analyses, and studies that ultimately drive critical business decisions. This role will require liaison between business unit operations, internal departments, and the international team leadership, participating in creating and maintaining dashboards, reports, and graphs to assess performance.

What You Will Do Primary Responsibilities

• Develop a deep understanding of the business, clearly identifying the different impact configurations, scenarios, and deals have on the company's financial statements and overall strategy. Act as a liaison between business analysis and data.
• Support strategic decisions by senior management with comprehensive analysis and presentations marrying big data science with financial shrewdness; assist in developing and implementing solutions to support strategic initiatives.
• Maintain comprehensive and complex business and financial models. Prepare financial analysis and statistical studies utilizing well-established tools and frameworks. Work with end users of the models to learn of any updates, revisions, or improvements needed and communicate them correctly to the Director.
• Work with the Senior Analyst in mergers & acquisitions, valuations, and other activities requiring financial analysis.
• Gather and format data from customers, competitors, industries, macroeconomics, and other relevant reports, to help create the strategic dashboard. Perform constant research and analysis of industry and local trends, practices, and the current plan to devise recommendations for improvement and plan design.
• Prepare weekly and monthly executive reports, including key performance metrics. Work with business unit personnel to analyze key performance indicators, compare them to benchmarks, and gather data to assess variances.
• Maintain various financial / operational / strategic models to assist International Organization's executives in planning and executing growth initiatives, understanding international market forces, and providing data on international telecom markets.
• Supporting the team's leader, working closely with International operations and other departments as part of a multidisciplinary team to assess current and past trends in key performance indicators, highlighting trends, and analyzing causes of unexpected variances.
• Evaluate large data sets, organizing, formatting, and cleaning up as required to provide material for analysis. Research internal and external data sources and prepare a recommendation for data extraction to prepare analytical studies.
• Learn systems and data repository characteristics and requirements, and work with companies' branches to ensure data accuracy and consistency. Identifies causes and solutions for data quality issues.
• Support the development of business intelligence models by completing data mining analysis; evaluating data models.
• Extract, transform, and load data from various data sources using SQL and Azure big data technologies. Combine different data points within SBA's data repositories and create new reports as required.
• Assist with developing and implementing databases, data collection systems, data analytics, and other strategies that optimize statistical efficiency and quality.
• Ad hoc problem-solving.
• Assist other team members in collecting data from various sources and preparing data sets for analysis.
• Board package and Executive Meeting data preparation and support.
• Other projects and duties as assigned.

What You'll Need Qualifications & Requirements