Business Analyst, Planning & Analytics

Arva is a machine learning SaaS company focused on applying technology to regenerative agriculture, sustainability, and environmental asset markets. The Business Analyst, Planning & Analytics will forecast and optimize workforce capacity, acreage allocation, portfolio demand, and operational resources while building analytical models, dashboards, and reports. The role partners cross-functionally to provide actionable insights, improve planning methodologies, and support scalable operational execution.

Responsibilities:

• Develop and maintain forecasts for workforce capacity, acreage, and portfolio demand across lines of business
• Analyze current and projected capacity to identify gaps, constraints, and opportunities before they impact delivery
• Support resource allocation and scenario planning to ensure teams are aligned with evolving business needs
• Build and maintain analytical models, dashboards, and reporting that provide visibility into operational performance and capacity
• Partner with cross-functional leaders to understand business drivers, translate them into planning assumptions, and evaluate potential tradeoffs
• Turn complex datasets into clear insights and recommendations that inform strategic and operational decisions
• Monitor forecast accuracy, identify changes in business conditions, and continuously improve planning methodologies
• Support portfolio-level planning and reporting for leadership, including key risks, trends, and capacity considerations
• Establish and improve processes, tools, and analytical frameworks that enable Arva to scale planning capabilities as the organization grows
• Build and maintain workforce capacity models across lines of business, including Customer Success capacity tied to acres under management
• Forecast resource demand, utilization, and staffing needs using sales pipelines, customer commitments, operational workloads, and strategic initiatives
• Identify capacity triggers, bottlenecks, and resource constraints before they affect delivery
• Create scenario analyses to support hiring and workforce planning decisions
• Provide analysis and options to support acreage allocation and resource reallocation decisions
• Gather, clean, and analyze data from multiple sources to produce accurate portfolio and workforce insights
• Build and maintain dashboards, reports, and scorecards that show capacity, utilization, workload, and operational performance
• Track leading indicators and key metrics that support proactive portfolio management
• Deliver timely analyses and recommendations to support data-driven decisions
• Work closely with Customer Success, Sales, Operations, Product, and other teams to understand current and future workload drivers
• Partner with Customer Success Managers on workforce planning and acreage allocation
• Translate pipeline forecasts, customer commitments, and business opportunities into capacity requirements
• Support discussions on resource prioritization, tradeoffs, and operational readiness
• Surface opportunities to improve efficiency and productivity through process or resource changes
• Support the Senior Director of Portfolio Management in refining portfolio management processes, governance, and operating procedures
• Help document and maintain standardized methodologies for forecasting, capacity planning, and resource management
• Contribute to evaluating and adopting tools, reporting structures, and workflows that improve visibility and planning accuracy
• Participate in continuous improvement initiatives focused on scalability, predictability, and execution
• Prepare clear, concise presentations, reports, and recommendations for leadership review
• Turn complex datasets and analyses into simple, actionable insights
• Present findings and forecasts clearly to both technical and non-technical stakeholders
• Deliver dashboards that give clear visibility into resource demand, utilization, and capacity risks
• Support proactive staffing and acreage allocation decisions through data-driven forecasting
• Improve forecast accuracy and reduce surprises related to workload and capacity
• Identify and help implement process improvements that increase operational efficiency
• Become a trusted analytical partner to leadership and cross-functional teams

Requirements:

• Bachelor's degree in Business, Finance, Operations Management, Supply Chain, Analytics, Economics, or a related field
• 3–8 years of experience in capacity planning, workforce planning, operations, portfolio management, business analytics, sales operations, or a related discipline
• Experience building forecasts, resource models, or operational planning tools
• Advanced proficiency in Microsoft Excel and/or Google Sheets, including complex formulas, data modeling, pivot tables, scenario analysis, and large dataset management
• Strong experience gathering, organizing, and analyzing data from multiple sources
• Ability to independently obtain, consolidate, and structure the data needed to support business decisions
• Excellent written, verbal, and presentation skills
• Strong problem-solving and critical-thinking skills with exceptional attention to detail
• Only applicants currently, and in the future, eligible to work in the United States will be considered for this position
• Experience in both sales and operational environments
• Proficiency with business intelligence and visualization tools such as Power BI, Tableau, or similar platforms
• Experience with portfolio, project, or resource management platforms
• Familiarity with forecasting methods, workforce planning models, and operational KPI development
• Experience supporting a high-growth organization through scaling and operational change
• Interest in agriculture, sustainability, or mission-driven work