Microsoft · 1 day ago

Director of Business Analytics & Reporting

United States

Full-time

Remote

Director/Executive

$129K/yr - $249K/yr

7+ years exp

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Responsibilities

Managers deliver success through empowerment and accountability by modeling, coaching, and caring.

Model - Live our culture; Embody our values; Practice our leadership principles.

Coach - Define team objectives and outcomes; Enable success across boundaries; Help the team adapt and learn.

Care - Attract and retain great people; Know each individual’s capabilities and aspirations; Invest in the growth of others.

Leads and coaches teams to apply in-depth knowledge of the business to proactively identify and address business concerns. Takes measures to support teams in determining scope and impact to guide the development of appropriate solutions, builds and leverages connections across areas of Microsoft's business, clearly articulates connections between internal business topics and relevant external trends, and includes key stakeholders in scoping process to influence decision making that yields positive impact.

Serves as a trusted expert in data, directing teams to identify optimally relevant data types, and to address gaps with data providers. Manages and influences cross-functional partnerships, leverages relevant work done in other teams, drives action to source additional data, and provides a business case for Engineering or Data Science teams to create or modify data pipelines, integrations, and/or models to drive insights identification.

Leads team(s) in proactively exploring business needs with internal and/or external stakeholders, and in performing complex analyses to address relevant business questions. Drives accountability and influences others to critically evaluate assumptions, tools, and/or techniques, and guides teams to identify potential gaps. Influences partner teams to develop, adopt, and/or improve upon recommended tools and techniques used to conduct analyses and leverage actionable insights.

Develops and coaches team(s) on best practices for presenting analytic results through various means to influence decision making and drive business outcomes, including dashboards, reports, data visualizations, self-service platforms, slides, and talking points that synthesize insights into a cohesive story. Directs efforts to improve the efficiency of reporting and presentations, and leads team(s) to ensure presented results are accessible, accurate, clear, concise, easily understood, and sufficiently relevant to influence decision making for intended audience(s).

Directs teams to determine factors and data types used to evaluate the impact of business, product, and/or operational decisions. Holds teams accountable for evaluating risks and limitations, synthesizing and applying learnings from previous evaluation instances, ensuring recommendations are actionable, and clearly articulating connections between evaluation results, recommendations, and relevant strategic business needs.

Establishes and leverages working relationships across teams to ensure quality data sources, clear understanding of business needs, and to optimally leverage analytical tools, processes, and insights, and dive their adoption across teams to deliver results. Identifies and engages relevant stakeholders from across the organization to address short- and long-term business needs, and drives engagements across teams to integrate tools, insights, and/or solutions to address business needs, and assists others in connecting across teams.

Drives efforts to introduce innovative methods that create efficiency in core work and enable reporting and analytics to be reusable, self-service, directed to meaningful interpretation of data, and capable of driving business decisions and impact across teams. Leads teams to determine optimal and methods for standardizing, sharing, and scaling insights, and implementing automation of patterns of ad hoc analyses and reporting into standard practices. Partners with Engineering or Data Science teams and shares thought leadership to develop and implement automation of core work tasks that are most relevant to addressing business needs.

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Qualification

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Data AnalysisBusiness IntelligenceData StorytellingPeople ManagementDashboardsData VisualizationsBusiness ReviewsStatistical AnalysisMathematicsComputer ScienceMarketingEconomics

Required

Bachelor's Degree in Statistics, Mathematics, Analytics, Engineering, Computer Science, Marketing, Business, Economics or related field AND 7+ years experience in data analysis and reporting, business intelligence, or business and financial analysis

OR Master's Degree in Mathematics, Analytics, Engineering, Computer Science, Marketing, Business, Economics or related field AND 5+ years experience in data analysis and reporting, business intelligence, or business and financial analysis

OR equivalent experience.

Previous experience defining standards for presenting results to influence leadership decisions through dashboards, reports, visualizations, data storytelling, and business reviews.

Previous experience leading business review discussions with senior stakeholders.

Ability to meet Microsoft, customer and / or government security screening requirements are required for this role.