Business Analyst Sr (Payments Industry / Business Reporting)

Pathward is a financial empowerment company focused on increasing financial availability, choice, and opportunity through responsible financial products. The Senior Business Analyst will align technology solutions with business strategies in Payments by improving business reporting, technical analysis, forecasting, and operational planning while providing thought leadership and data-driven insights.

Responsibilities:

• Uses knowledge of business metrics and data structure to deliver ongoing business reporting on base metrics and discover and/or anticipate problems where data can be used to solve the problem or drive important insight to inform business strategy
• Actively participates in initial and continual development, as well as on-going maintenance of reports and models
• Maintains and refines historic and forward-looking business metrics and statistics that can be used to help guide decision making
• Assists in the creation and compilation of daily, weekly, monthly and quarterly reporting packages, highlighting results and variance analysis
• Identifies and executes opportunities for process improvement and standardization across business lines
• Drives standard definitions around key data elements and identify and support projects related to achieving data consistency, availability and quality
• Drives the identification and implementation of technology solutions to reduce manual processes, enhance controls, improve cycle times, and support consistency. This role will play an integral role in the transition from a legacy reporting environment to a more modern platform and the ongoing evolution of executive dashboards and reporting
• Generates one-time, ad hoc reports by crafting custom queries against the data repository
• Works closely with internal and external partners to obtain supporting information and data
• Develops a consistent view of product performance and operational support functions
• Other duties as assigned

Requirements:

• Bachelor's degree or equivalent education and work experience
• 5+ years work experience preferably in Payments (or adjacent industry)
• An ability to problem solve complex data and technical challenges related to their reporting responsibilities independently or in collaboration
• Strong organizational project management skills to manage reporting migration and ad hoc requests
• Strong ability to collaborate with internal customers
• Experience with: ThoughtSpot, PowerBI (building reports, entitlements), SQL, Snowflake, Advance Excel and SalesForce Reporting
• Experience working through SDLC