Business Analyst

About the company

Blue Orange Digital is a cloud-based data transformation and predictive analytics development firm with offices in NYC and Washington, DC. Founded by successful business entrepreneurs that started their careers in engineering, our team has a passion for technology and data analytics that we believe can transform businesses and improve the digital experience.

From startups to Fortune 500’s, we help companies make sense of their business challenges by applying modern data analytics techniques, visualizations, machine learning, and artificial intelligence to help our clients reach their technical and business goals. Our startup DNA means everyone on the team makes a direct contribution to the growth of the company and we are looking for passionate people that can bring their experience to the table!

About The Role

Blue Orange Digital is looking for a Business Analyst to join our multi-disciplinary team to help drive the success of client projects. Success in this role will require someone that can not just analyze data, but understand and communicate the business context of that analysis to a range of stakeholders. We are looking for a candidate who is not just data-driven, but is data obsessed. Our teams build modern data platforms for our clients and help drive the value through the delivery of business intelligence and advanced analytics. The Business Analyst role is a critical part of the ability to deliver high value analytics for our clients. The ideal candidate is someone who is relentless at asking the questions needed to drive a project scope to a refined and actionable set of requirements. This person should be comfortable collaborating with technical team members as well as business stakeholders.

Core Responsibilities

• Collaborate with project sponsors to determine project scope and vision
• Create process models, specifications, diagrams, and charts to provide direction to developers and/or the project team
• Define project requirements by identifying project milestones, phases and elements; establishing and monitoring the project budget
• Monitor project progress by tracking activity; resolving problems; publishing progress reports; recommending actions
• Communicate client requirements to technical teams to ensure successful implementation
• Learn and grow - work to fill knowledge and skill gaps to help get the job done with the team

Requirements

• Bachelor's degree in business administration, finance, or information systems
• 5+ years of related work experience
• Extensive experience in data, including research and analysis processes
• Proficient with SQL. Experience with Python is a plus.
• Experience using business intelligence tools to construct reports and dashboards. Experience working with Power BI, Tableau or Looker is preferred.
• Advanced communication skills, including with different team members in different sectors of the business
• Ability to identify and work with specific data that will be decisive in strategic business management
• Excellent Googler. Not joking. Should be an expert at efficiently and effectively researching.
• Mathematical and statistical skills
• Skills with presentation platforms, spreadsheets and report creation
• You must have the unrestricted right to work in the US without requiring sponsorship

Bonus Points

• Experience in consulting.
• Experience with project management methodologies.
• Having subject matter expertise in Real Estate, Finance, Saas.
• In-depth familiarity with data science and data engineering development processes.
• Experience with public clouds.

Our benefits include:

• Unlimited PTO
  
• 401K matching
• Medical, Dental, Vision, Life Insurance
• Parental leave
• Flexible working hours
• Professional development support
• Remote

Compensation:

$100k - 130k