Senior Data Analytics Analyst
About LearnVest
LearnVest is redefining the American approach to personal finance. Our planners leverage financial technology to create simple, affordable, realistic plans for anyone who wants to feel confident about their money and optimistic about the future.
Since launching in 2010, LearnVest has been one of the premier financial technology companies in the country, helping thousands of people make progress on their financial goals. LearnVest was acquired by Northwestern Mutual in 2015 and is now scaling its technology and personal finance approach to help millions of people across both the LearnVest and Northwestern Mutual brands.
What you’ll get to do:
Who we’re looking for:
Minimum Requirements
- Bachelor’s degree in computer science, MIS, math, statistics, business or related field
- Minimum of 5 years experience/knowledge in business processes to include research and data analysis, application of statistical research techniques, report or application developmen
- Expertise in one or more development or analytical tools such as SAS, SQL, MS Excel, SPSS, PowerBI, MSBI stack or other tool
- Deep knowledge of online marketing methods, tools, and strategies
- Mainframe experience is a plus.
- Proven excellence in problem solving, research, quantitative analysis and analytical working techniques.
- Strong aptitude and desire for learning new platforms, development, analytic and presentation tools;
- modeling, analytic and quantitative techniques.
- Significant ability to develop and implement analysis approaches in order to support the strategic initiatives of the assigned business unit, corporate planning, customer/business units and organization wide strategic planning.
- Ability to generate new ideas and go beyond the status quo;
- recognize the need for new or modified approaches.
- Demonstrated ability to gather information systematically;
- consider a broad range of issues or factors;
- grasp complexities and perceive relationships among problems or issues; use accurate logic in analysis.
- Initiative to independently design and develop own deliverables while still being a team player.
- Demonstrated ability to deliver results and recommendations in written, verbal, and presentation form at an appropriate level for a business audience.
- Project Management experience a plus
Desirable Requirements
- 3+ years of online marketing experience
- Additional educational background at graduate level and / or in management science and engineering, operations research, industrial engineering, or related field.
- Familiarity with Northwestern Mutual business area(s) and data store(s) with a client, sales, product or field focus.
- Systems implementation / consulting experience
Note Regarding Requirements: this position may also require fingerprinting and/or FINRA registrations, or have additional physical requirements. Managers can refer to the Job Description SharePoint for this information.
ADA Disclaimer: This job description is meant to be a general description, and may not include all essential job functions or competencies needed to perform those job functions. The Company will reasonably accommodate medical needs for qualified job candidates to successfully perform the job. Job qualifications and accommodation needs are reviewed and evaluated on a case-by-case basis.