Senior Business Intelligence Analyst at Workiva, Inc.

This role will report to the Director of Data Science and is a part of the Data & Analytics organization within Business Technology (BT). BT powers Workiva's growth, enhances the employee experience, and boosts organizational productivity with tech-driven transformation and innovative solutions. The Data & Analytics team drives data-driven decisions and innovations across Workiva.

About the Role

As a Sr. BI Analyst at Workiva, you will play a key role in driving data-driven innovation and strategic decision-making across the organization. Working as a senior member of our Decision Science team performing in depth analyses, understanding key operational metrics and drivers of those metrics, and collaborating across different business stakeholders to enable data driven insights. This role offers the unique opportunity to blend technical expertise, analytical thinking, and business acumen, enabling you to contribute significantly to our company's growth and success.

What You'll Do

Data Analysis & Reporting

• Extract, transform, and analyze large datasets to generate actionable insights.

• Go beyond surface level insights, taking a deeper level of analysis to look into underlying patterns, causes, and implications of the data for different areas of the business and different stakeholders. Further utilize knowledge of the business to proactively identify trends or data components to surface for leadership beyond original business asks.

• Build the next version of our self-service data products, delivering insights at scale.

Storytelling & Actionable Insights : Tell meaningful stories with data and translate complex data into clear, actionable recommendations for business stakeholders, empowering data-driven decision-making across the organization.

Stakeholder Engagement: Assist data consumers and stakeholders, across very diverse business groups and geographies to understand what is possible with our data. Partner with cross-functional teams, including Sales, Customer Success, Finance, Marketing and Executive Leadership Team, to understand business needs, translate that to data requirements, and suggest key metrics to further support business decisions.

Data Quality and Governance: Ensure data accuracy, consistency, integrity, and security in the data products delivered; and own the documentation of data flows and logic.

Promote Curated Data and Self-service Insights: Collaborate closely with Data and Analytical Engineering, Data Product Manager and stakeholders, designing and developing company standard curated data and metrics to democratize insights.

Foster Data Culture: Help cultivate a strong data-driven culture by actively contributing to the data and analytics community.

Innovate: Stay updated on BI best practices, tools, and emerging trends to enhance analytics capabilities.

Minimum Qualifications

• 4+ years of experience in business intelligence, data analytics, or a related role within the technology sector.

• Bachelor's or Master's degree in Business, Data Science, Computer Science, Statistics, Finance, or a related field.

Preferred Qualifications

Technical Skills:

• Advanced SQL skills and experience working with large-scale data extraction, manipulation and analysis

• Advanced analysis and data visualization skills and experience working with tools like Tableau, Quicksight, Superset, R libraries (e.g., dplyr, ggplot2, tidyr) or Python libraries (e.g., Seaborn, Matplotlib)

• Knowledge of data warehousing (Snowflake, Redshift, BigQuery, etc.) and ETL processes

• Expertise in statistical methods, including hypothesis testing, A/B testing, and causal inference

• Familiarity with Python or R for data analysis and automation

• Experience with data governance and management tools (Atlan, Alation)

Business Skills:

• Solid problem-solving abilities with a keen attention to detail. Ability to translate complex data into clear and actionable insights.

• Effective communication skills to present complex data findings to both technical and non-technical stakeholders that inspire actions.

• Exceptional stakeholder management skills, with a proven ability to collaborate and influence across functions, including experience consulting on data with senior and executive level leadership.

• Ability to manage multiple projects, balance impact and effort, and focus on delivering value efficiently.

Physical Requirements and Working Conditions

• Embrace your inner wanderlust - expect up to 15% travel

• Stay virtually untethered with the power of reliable internet access, enabling you to work remotely from your chosen spot, whether that's your home office or a beachside cafe

How You'll Be Rewarded

A discretionary bonus typically paid annually

Restricted Stock Units granted at time of hire

401(k) match and comprehensive employee benefits package

The salary range represents the low and high end of the salary range for this job in the US. Minimums and maximums may vary based on location. The actual salary offer will carefully consider a wide range of factors, including your skills, qualifications, experience and other relevant factors.

Employment decisions are made without regard to age, race, creed, color, religion, sex, national origin, ancestry, disability status, veteran status, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, genetic information, marital status, citizenship status or any other protected characteristic.

Workiva is committed to working with and providing reasonable accommodations to applicants with disabilities. To request assistance with the application process, please email [email protected].

Workiva employees are required to undergo comprehensive security and privacy training tailored to their roles, ensuring adherence to company policies and regulatory standards.

Workiva supports employees in working where they work best - either from an office or remotely from any location within their country of employment.