Business intelligence Analyst

Also called: Analytical Data Miner, Business Analyst, Business Consultant, Business Data Analyst, Business Database Analyst

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Business intelligence analyst produces financial and market intelligence by querying data repositories and generating periodic reports. Devise methods for identifying data patterns and trends in available information sources.

Generate standard or custom reports summarizing business, financial, or economic data for review by executives, managers, clients, and other stakeholders.
Synthesize current business intelligence or trend data to support recommendations for action.
Maintain library of model documents, templates, or other reusable knowledge assets.
Create business intelligence tools or systems, including design of related databases, spreadsheets, or outputs.
Manage timely flow of business intelligence information to users.
Collect business intelligence data from available industry reports, public information, field reports, or purchased sources.
Analyze competitive market strategies through analysis of related product, market, or share trends.
Maintain or update business intelligence tools, databases, dashboards, systems, or methods.
Identify or monitor current and potential customers, using business intelligence tools.
Disseminate information regarding tools, reports, or metadata enhancements.
Provide technical support for existing reports, dashboards, or other tools.
Identify and analyze industry or geographic trends with business strategy implications.
Communicate with customers, competitors, suppliers, professional organizations, or others to stay abreast of industry or business trends.
Create or review technical design documentation to ensure the accurate development of reporting solutions.
Analyze technology trends to identify markets for future product development or to improve sales of existing products.
Conduct or coordinate tests to ensure that intelligence is consistent with defined needs.
Document specifications for business intelligence or information technology reports, dashboards, or other outputs.

Work Context

Electronic Mail — 91% responded "Every day".
Spend Time Sitting — 77% responded "Continually or almost continually".
Structured versus Unstructured Work — 53% responded "A lot of freedom".
Telephone — 48% responded "Every day".
Indoors, Environmentally Controlled — 77% responded "Every day".
Freedom to Make Decisions — 48% responded "A lot of freedom".
Importance of Being Exact or Accurate — 48% responded "Very important".

Work Activities

Interacting With Computers — Using computers and computer systems (including hardware and software) to program, write software, set up functions, enter data, or process information.
Analyzing Data or Information — Identifying the underlying principles, reasons, or facts of information by breaking down information or data into separate parts.
Getting Information — Observing, receiving, and otherwise obtaining information from all relevant sources.
Communicating with Supervisors, Peers, or Subordinates — Providing information to supervisors, co-workers, and subordinates by telephone, in written form, e-mail, or in person.
Interpreting the Meaning of Information for Others — Translating or explaining what information means and how it can be used.
Processing Information — Compiling, coding, categorizing, calculating, tabulating, auditing, or verifying information or data.
Establishing and Maintaining Interpersonal Relationships — Developing constructive and cooperative working relationships with others, and maintaining them over time.
Organizing, Planning, and Prioritizing Work — Developing specific goals and plans to prioritize, organize, and accomplish your work.

Updating and Using Relevant Knowledge — Keeping up-to-date technically and applying new knowledge to your job.

Making Decisions and Solving Problems — Analyzing information and evaluating results to choose the best solution and solve problems.

Documenting/Recording Information — Entering, transcribing, recording, storing, or maintaining information in written or electronic/magnetic form.

Thinking Creatively — Developing, designing, or creating new applications, ideas, relationships, systems, or products, including artistic contributions.

Identifying Objects, Actions, and Events — Identifying information by categorizing, estimating, recognizing differences or similarities, and detecting changes in circumstances or events.

Provide Consultation and Advice to Others — Providing guidance and expert advice to management or other groups on technical, systems-, or process-related topics.

Developing Objectives and Strategies — Establishing long-range objectives and specifying the strategies and actions to achieve them.

Judging the Qualities of Things, Services, or People — Assessing the value, importance, or quality of things or people.

Estimating the Quantifiable Characteristics of Products, Events, or Information — Estimating sizes, distances, and quantities; or determining time, costs, resources, or materials needed to perform a work activity.

Monitor Processes, Materials, or Surroundings — Monitoring and reviewing information from materials, events, or the environment, to detect or assess problems.

Selling or Influencing Others — Convincing others to buy merchandise/goods or to otherwise change their minds or actions.

Communicating with Persons Outside Organization — Communicating with people outside the organization, representing the organization to customers, the public, government, and other external sources. This information can be exchanged in person, in writing, or by telephone or e-mail.

Performing Administrative Activities — Performing day-to-day administrative tasks such as maintaining information files and processing paperwork.

Detailed Work Activities

Provide technical support for software maintenance or use.
Develop models of information or communications systems.
Analyze market or customer related data.
Document technical specifications or requirements.
Update knowledge about emerging industry or technology trends.
Update computer database information.

English Language

Knowledge of the structure and content of the English language including the meaning and spelling of words, rules of composition, and grammar.

Mathematics

Knowledge of arithmetic, algebra, geometry, calculus, statistics, and their applications.

Administration and Management

Knowledge of business and management principles involved in strategic planning, resource allocation, human resources modeling, leadership technique, production methods, and coordination of people and resources.

Computers and Electronics

Knowledge of circuit boards, processors, chips, electronic equipment, and computer hardware and software, including applications and programming.

Reading Comprehension

Understanding written sentences and paragraphs in work related documents.

Critical Thinking

Using logic and reasoning to identify the strengths and weaknesses of alternative solutions, conclusions or approaches to problems.

Speaking

Talking to others to convey information effectively.

Active Listening

Giving full attention to what other people are saying, taking time to understand the points being made, asking questions as appropriate, and not interrupting at inappropriate times.

Written Comprehension

The ability to read and understand information and ideas presented in writing.

Written Expression

The ability to communicate information and ideas in writing so others will understand.

Oral Comprehension

The ability to listen to and understand information and ideas presented through spoken words and sentences.

Inductive Reasoning

The ability to combine pieces of information to form general rules or conclusions (includes finding a relationship among seemingly unrelated events).

Oral Expression

The ability to communicate information and ideas in speaking so others will understand.

Deductive Reasoning

The ability to apply general rules to specific problems to produce answers that make sense.

Category Flexibility

The ability to generate or use different sets of rules for combining or grouping things in different ways.

Speech Clarity

The ability to speak clearly so others can understand you.

Information Ordering

The ability to arrange things or actions in a certain order or pattern according to a specific rule or set of rules (e.g., patterns of numbers, letters, words, pictures, mathematical operations).

Speech Recognition

The ability to identify and understand the speech of another person.

Problem Sensitivity

The ability to tell when something is wrong or is likely to go wrong. It does not involve solving the problem, only recognizing there is a problem.

Mathematical Reasoning

The ability to choose the right mathematical methods or formulas to solve a problem.

Fluency of Ideas

The ability to come up with a number of ideas about a topic (the number of ideas is important, not their quality, correctness, or creativity).

Flexibility of Closure

The ability to identify or detect a known pattern (a figure, object, word, or sound) that is hidden in other distracting material.

Originality

The ability to come up with unusual or clever ideas about a given topic or situation, or to develop creative ways to solve a problem.

Number Facility

The ability to add, subtract, multiply, or divide quickly and correctly.

Near Vision

The ability to see details at close range (within a few feet of the observer).

People interested in this work like activities that include ideas, thinking, and figuring things out.

They do well at jobs that need:

Achievement/Effort

Persistence

Initiative

Leadership

Cooperation

Concern for Others

Social Orientation

Self Control

You might use software like this on the job:

Enterprise resource planning ERP software

Oracle JD Edwards EnterpriseOne
Oracle Hyperion
Oracle Fusion Applications
NetSuite ERP
Microsoft Dynamics
Microsoft Dynamics GP
SAP Business Objects
SAP
Oracle PeopleSoft Financials
Oracle PeopleSoft
Enterprise resource planning ERP software

Business intelligence and data analysis software

MicroStrategy
Oracle Business Intelligence Enterprise Edition
Tableau
Qlik Tech QlikView
Apache Spark
IBM Cognos Impromptu

Word processing software

Microsoft Word
Google Docs

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