Business Intelligence Analyst

COMPANY OVERVIEW

Why Interest Media?

• WORK FROM HOME - Like working from home? Well, that’s good, because Interest Media is proud to be a 100% work from home organization. We provide everything, including laptop, monitors, some Uber Eats, and even your internet! Allowing you to focus on being the work from home rockstar you are.
• HEALTH CARE COVERED - Interest Media offers some of the best health care coverage in Kansas City. The company pays for 100% of your health insurance, including eye care, maternity leave and dental. Our employee’s health is important to us, and our benefits package proves it.
• GREAT PLACE TO WORK CERTIFIED - Interest Media is proud to be Certified™ by Great Place to Work® for the first time. The prestigious award is based entirely on what current employees say about their experience working at Interest Media. This year, 94% of employees said it’s a great place to work!
• This is an opportunity to be with an industry leading company that continues to experience tremendous growth

POSITION OVERVIEW

We are currently looking for a Business Intelligence Analyst to improve our ability to gain insights from our performance data. We are seeking a qualified candidate who is a data expert, has a keen eye for identifying valuable trends in data, understands how to translate data observations into valuable business recommendations, can work their way around large/complex data sets with ease, ‘gets’ data, has excellent teamwork skills, solid communication skills and strong attention to detail and deadlines.

The Business Intelligence Analyst will be responsible for analyzing complex data sets to identify valuable insights, develop automated reporting to provide more data transparency to the rest of the team, performing ad hoc analysis to help the team understand opportunities or issues, and leveraging data to better understand all aspects of our business.

PRIMARY DUTIES INCLUDE:

• Identifying Valuable Insights – Through analysis and intuition, the right candidate will be able sift through large, complex dataset and identify valuable insights that will help us improve our products and grow the business.
• Data Transparency – Improve the decision making of the entire team by providing standard data sets and reports that are easily accessible for the rest of the team to use.
• Ad Hoc Analysis - Key analytical partner for the management team to help with data-driven decision making
• Maintain and further develop complex data models capable of predicting both volume and rate drivers for a range of dynamic products within the channel.
• Meet and exceed sales targets and KPIs set by management.
• Attend trade shows (8-10 times per year)

CANDIDATE OVERVIEW

The successful candidate will be an inspiring and confident person with at least:

• 3+ years of experience in leveraging analytics to drive strategic business decisions
• Proficient with Excel (Pivot tables, Data Visualization, VLOOKUP, SUMIF, etc.)
• Experience analyzing conversion rates, acceptance rates, failure rates, bounce rates, and other common marketing KPI’s.
• Experience with co-registration marketing or lead generation/aggregation funnels is preferred but not required.
• Bachelor’s degree in Finance, MIS or related field
• Passion for driving progress while combining both creative and critical thinking skills to solve complex, loosely defined problems
• Robust sense of intellectual curiosity and the tenacity to experiment
• Ability to boil complex business challenges down to digestible and actionable business plans
• Nice to have - General understanding of SQL
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills

The successful candidate will also demonstrate the following abilities:

• Results Driven – Understand that generating results is always our ultimate goal.
• Creative - Ability to generate new out of the box ideas
• Communicative - Must have strong interpersonal skills and the ability to establish, develop, and maintain business relationships
• Adaptable - Capable of adjusting to changing priorities, sometimes daily
• Resourceful - Great at solving unstructured problems with little to no supervision in a fast-paced, high stakes environment
• Team Player - Demonstrates a strong ability to contribute to the business along with business unit team members and managers; establish collaborative relationships with peers.