Business Analyst Advisor

Pathward is hiring a Business Analyst Advisor to align technology solutions with business strategies and improve reporting, analytics, forecasting, and operational planning. The role develops and maintains reports and models, drives data quality and process improvements, and supports business decision-making with actionable analytics.

Responsibilities:

• Uses knowledge of business and data structure to discover and/or anticipate problems where data can be used to solve the problem
• 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
• Provides support, and assists in, driving the identification and implementation of technology solutions to reduce manual processes, enhance controls, improve cycle times, and support consistency
• 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
• Typically requires a minimum of 8 years of related experience with a bachelor's or equivalent
• 5+ years work experience preferably in Payments (or adjacent industry)
• Distinguished by advanced expertise in data visualization, data modeling, and end-to-end analytical solution design, combined with a strong focus on business partnership and end-user adoption
• Serves as a champion for intuitive, trusted, and actionable analytics by translating complex business needs into scalable analytical solutions, establishing visualization and analytical best practices, and enabling users to confidently leverage data for decision-making
• Operates as a trusted advisor across business and technical teams and promotes responsible self-service analytics through engagement, education, and continuous improvement
• Communicates Effectively
• Interpersonal Savvy
• Collaborates
• Business Acumen
• Functional/Technical Skills
• Master's degree preferred