Principal Analytics Specialist. (Individual contributor role)

Maxonic maintains a close and long-term relationship with our direct client. In support of their needs, we are looking for a Senior Analytics Specialist.

Job Title: Principal Analytics Specialist.

(This is an Individual contributor role.)

Job Type: Permanent Hire.

The client can sponsor visa transfer.

Salary range:

San Jose CA: $146k-$180k+ 10% bonus, (Depending on Experience)

Tempe,AZ: $110k-$145k + 10% bonus. (Depending on Experience)

Responsibilities:

About this opportunity

• This key position will be responsible in providing Reporting, Analytics, Insights, and recommendations to support the Global Finance and Marketing organizations based on a strong business understanding and acumen.
• This position acts as an internal consultant, evaluating business proposals and performances, conducting accurate and timely ad-hoc analysis, and instituting success criteria to influence decision-making.
• Responsibilities range from efficient, effective, massive, and complex data validation, manipulation, and analysis to the presentation of key business insights and recommendations to senior management.
• Responsibilities also include the development of effective, strong relationships with key stakeholders (Sales, Marketing, Finance, and Business Intelligence/IT teams)

In this role, you will…

• Lead Digital Analytics roadmap at Global level, by developing frameworks & statistical models for digital media ROI measurement, marketing mix modeling, Media spend optimizations.
• Measure, mine, and generate insights from digital customer engagement data within all digital channels, including website, app, paid media, social media, and email campaign datasets.
• Develop key hypothesis, execute on Pre-Post, A/B experimentation tests, and measure the effectiveness of business actions and marketing campaigns.
• Perform data mining using statistical techniques multivariate regression, Cohort analysis, time series forecasting, etc. to communicate actionable insights to business stakeholders.
• Own and execute complex analysis of business problems and hypothesis. Build reporting and forecasting models to bring forth insights using complex analytical and statistical techniques.
• Evaluate new BI tools/ Platforms to better understand the trends in competitor’s Digital user engagement and marketing channel execution.
• Lead, mentor a team of analysts and drive the implementation of advanced Machine Learning algorithms to enable better data driven decision making across the org.
• Build, extract, transform, visualize, and analyze large scale datasets to provide analytic and reporting solutions to help support the company initiatives.
• Build dynamic and visually rich dashboards involving customizations & out of the box features using Tableau / SAP Business Objects/Power BI
• Ability to prepare and present findings, insights, and recommendations to senior management in PowerPoint.
• Provide analytics support to Global Finance, Marketing, Sales, and Operations teams in answering ad hoc questions, providing training on reports and dashboards, and providing and providing proactive analytics.
• Lead end-to-end month-end close, forecasting, reporting, and annual budget planning. This includes monitoring operational trends and key efficiency/effectiveness metrics, including spending, headcount, capital expenditures/investment, leases, and vendor investment against plan/forecast assumptions.
• Consolidate financial forecasts/budgets/data for the Global Marketing team and rationalize inputs to ensure adherence to Corporate FP&A’s guidelines and deadlines and deliver reporting and variance analysis as needed. This also includes ensuring monthly financial results are stated accurately and in accordance with GAAP including preparation and posting of journal entries for expense.

In this role, you’ll need …

• Demonstrated strong analytical, quantitative, and abstract thinking skills in complex types of analyses.
• Able to navigate through Data in a complex environment using SQL/ Python/R or other advanced statistical packages.
• Demonstrated ability in building and presenting professional presentations and recommendations to senior management. Ability to “tell the story” in a concise, professional manner. Strong verbal and written communication skills.
• Manage and own financial planning and analysis for a BU or a function
• Ability to work independently with minimal supervision under high pressure, be results oriented and be able to work in a flexible and fast-paced environment.
• To be results-driven and pragmatic – understand that data is only valuable when it is translated to actionable insights for the business.
• To be curious & analytical – you must be able to ask the right questions, identify relevant sources, combine data sets, crunch numbers and present actionable conclusions.
• Ability to develop and maintain business relationships with various team members across the organization. Strong cross-functional skills with Analytics/IT teams required.

EDUCATION and/or EXPERIENCE

• Bachelor’s degree in mathematics/science/ information technology and/or equivalent experience; Masters’ degree/equivalent in business or analytical field preferred
• 7+ years of experience in Finance/Marketing/Business Analytics and/or other reporting/analytical functions, ideally already in a managerial role.
• Working Knowledge of statistical analysis and tools R/ Python is required.
• Experience with Web and App analytics platforms is strongly preferred.
• Experience supporting Finance partnering with marketing is strongly preferred.
• Strong skills in developing and presenting analysis and recommendations in PowerPoint are required.
• Strong database query (SQL)/Hive QL and MS Excel modeling skills are required (Ability to model out data first in excel is usually recommended when developing new models)
• Strong skills in building scalable reports, dashboards, and scorecards in Power BI, or Tableau preferred.
• Financial, operational, and data-driven analytics using Excel pivot tables.

About Maxonic:

Since 2002 Maxonic has been at the forefront of connecting candidate strengths to client challenges. Our award-winning, dedicated team of recruiting professionals are specialized by technology, are great listeners, and will seek to find a position that meets the long-term career needs of our candidates. We take pride in the over 10,000 candidates that we have placed, and the repeat business that we earn from our satisfied clients.

Interested in Applying?

We’d love to hear from you! Please feel free to email Suresh Krishnamurthy at Suresh.k@maxonic.com or call 408-400-2323.