VRS - Business Data Analyst

Job Description:

• The Virginia Retirement System(VRS) Data Office team is seeking a Senior Business Data Analyst with strong problem solving organizational and communication skills.
• This role will be expected to collaborate with the Data Office Business IT and other stakeholders and play an activerole in the Data Quality Enhancement initiative.
• The individual is expected to be a selfstarter who is comfortable prioritizing and effectively managing their daily workload.
• The role will be involved in enhancing data governance ensuring data quality and collaborating with stakeholders across departments to analyze design and deliver data drivensolutions.
• The ideal candidate has expertise in business data analysis excels at communicating technical information to nontechnical audiences and ability to leverage tools like SQL PowerBI and Tableau.

Essential Duties and Responsibilities:

• Work effectively with business process owners and data owners to ensure data related business objectives are understood and documented.
• Gatherevaluate and document requirements related to data for new systems or enhancements based on business user input technical requirements and constraints.
• Manage multiple projects timelines and priorities.
• Support individual team members in the data office as well as various business units by designing customizable tabular or visual reports with available tools.

Data Analysis:

• Develop innovative data strategies for meeting business requirements including leveraging the capabilities of existing technology tools or acquiring/developing new technology tools.
• Design datafocused automated and manual solutions to solve business problems and achieve business objectives.
• Structure large data sets to find usable information.
• Collaborate with various business and technology teams to collect and analyze data.
• Create reports and visualizations for internal teams and stakeholders.
• Perform assessments make sound recommendations and present findings to ensure VRS is procuring or building the most effective valueadded solutions.
• Create presentations a nd reports based on recommendations and findings.
• Prepare reports flowcharts diagrams detailed documentation and other written materials.
• Present findings through various written and verbal communication channels with keyusers and agency executives.

Data Office Support

• Serve as subject matter expert on Data Analytics.
• Act as a liaison between the business teams and IT teams for data related initiatives.
• Participateand assist with the VRS Change Management Process to ensure all activities flow through change management (documentation test plans approvals etc.).
• Manage risk and provide timely status reports and project updates to stakeholders.
  Provide crossteam support when needed to achieve technical goals knowledge sharing
• Agency Performance Outcomes (APOs) and operational measures (OMs).
• Participate in software/hardware security reviews and implements best practices for the Data Office.
• Establish KPIs in coordination with business units to measure the effectiveness of business decisions.
• Perform special projects as assigned.
• Otherduties may be assigned.

Required Skills andExperience

• 5 years experience working in data analysis business analysis data sciencedata warehousing in Pensions Benefit management or related industry
• Experienceworking in an Agile development environment.
• Ability to work independently and as part of a team that includes business and technical stakeholders.
• Excellent problemsolving and analytical skills.
• Strong communication and interpersonal skills.

Desired Skills

• 3 or more years experience designing dashboards and reports using BI tools suchas PowerBI and/or Tableau.
• Strong SQL skills for querying and analyzing data.
• Knowledgein Excel DAX Python.
• Software development background.

Education and/or Experience

• Bachelorsdegree from a 4 year college or university preferred and
• 5 years experience with technology or data organizations required. An equivalent combination of education andexperience may also be considered.
• This will be a contract position starting with a period of at least 6 months. To be effective this resource would need to be available within the next 6 weeks.
• The individual will follow the VRS Hybrid work schedule including 2 days onsite per week (Tuesday andWednesday).
• The individual may also be called to be onsite for critical meetings and data related discussions.