Senior Business Operations Analyst
Medline Industries
- Northfield, IL
- Permanent
- Full-time
- Identify data and reporting tools necessary to/and perform business, financial and data analysis. Communicate the results of the business, financial and data analysis. Plan and prepare financial and operational analysis resulting in information used in planning and decision making.
- Work directly with Sales Operations, Marketing, Supply Chain, Finance and other critical departments to provide advanced level analysis and reporting as necessary.
- Develop modeling to simulate the financial impact of product modifications, marketing and incentive plan changes, or other initiatives. Create Tableau dashboards and visualizations, and customer scorecard; provide insight into trends or performance. Analyze competitive market strategies through study of related products, markets, or share trends.
- Organize plans and recommend analysis and reports consistent with continuous improvement of processes and procedures. Recommend, develop, create and implement standard reporting for routine business reports. Recommend, develop, create and implement ad hoc reports as business conditions necessitate.
- Synthesize current business intelligence or trend data to support recommendations for action. Identify and/or monitor current and potential customers, using business intelligence tools.
- Monitor for data accuracy, timeliness and integrity in data used in analysis and reporting. Communicate to appropriate personnel if data inaccuracies exist.
- Ensure follow-up so that analysis and reporting outcomes are reviewed and implemented. Support new business projects with due diligence and transition activities and assist in developing and executing related project plans.
- Bachelor’s degree in Business, Finance, Accounting, Information Systems, Mathematics or Applied Statistics or Data Science.
- At least 5 years of related experience or combination of experience and education.
- Ability to successfully apply standard financial, accounting and business problem-solving skills to business problems with multiple variables.
- Advanced level skill in Microsoft Access (for example: modifying default field properties, creating a sub form, adding a control button, modifying query criteria and query totals, using conditional formatting and/or viewing data relationships).
- Advanced level skill in Microsoft Excel (for example: using AVERAGE function, merging and centering cells, printing centered page and/or creating a pivot table).
- Ability to calculate figures and amounts such as discounts, interest, commissions, proportions, percentages, volume.
- Ability to apply concepts of algebra and business statistics.
- Experience in financial analysis and data reporting.
- Experience working in a fast paced environment, time sensitive projects, and large data files requiring interpretation and simplification for presentation.
- Experience with sales and marketing teams for promotional marketing, trend analysis, and building custoemr targeting reports.
- People management experience preferred but not required.