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Job Title
Senior Business Intelligence Analyst
Department Dentistry | College Administration
Location Postle Hall (0024)
Position Type Regular
Scheduled Hours 40
Shift First Shift
Work Schedule Monday‑Friday
Job Purpose The Ohio State University College of Dentistry is seeking a Senior Business Intelligence Analyst whose focus will be on optimizing the financial health and performance of the college. Reporting to the Chief Administrative Officer, this highly visible and high‑impact position is responsible for providing insightful analysis and decision support.
Responsibilities
Work with the business to understand and design analytical approaches to open‑ended strategic business problems and communicate insights.
Fuel strategic decision‑making with key stakeholders through reports, dashboards, presentations, storytelling, and thoughtful discussion.
Develop and leverage business understanding, analytical and visualization tools, and knowledge of data sources.
Perform sophisticated statistical analyses on data sets from multiple sources to impact performance optimization, goal setting, strategic decisions, and the generation of new hypotheses.
Provide insightful analysis as a basis for information dissemination, strategic planning, and decision making related to the operational and financial performance of the College.
Identify trends and areas of performance opportunity.
Assess information needs and develop and maintain analytic and visualization systems, processes, and business intelligence tools to support budgeting, modeling, forecasts, reports, analyses, and presentations of results.
Prepare analyses, visualizations, and reports of operational and financial performance, including comparisons to identified standards, targets, and/or strategic plans, for senior leaders.
Identify and interpret financial and operational trends and projections and effectively communicate the meaning of analytical findings; develop and present recommendations.
Initiate and prepare analyses of complex business issues related to strategic priorities of the college; identify appropriate techniques and methodologies for conducting analysis and presenting results; establish performance metrics and standards.
Provide analytical support to the annual budget process and forward‑looking forecasts; develop “what‑if” scenarios as requested.
Lead analytical initiatives with cross‑functional groups across the college and University.
Required Qualifications
Bachelor's degree.
7‑10 years of experience as a financial or business analyst preparing analyses and reports using statistical, operational, and financial data.
Extensive experience with accounting, budgeting, and forecasting systems, processes, and procedures.
Extensive experience with databases and data warehouses.
Demonstrated ability to create and utilize analytic, forecasting, modeling, and business intelligence tools and concepts.
Demonstrated ability to create and utilize financial model projections and scenarios.
Excellent analytical skills, including experience with data modeling, spreadsheets, and databases.
Advanced experience with Excel and Tableau or similar software.
Demonstrated ability to work independently and as a member of a team with individuals at all levels within the college.
Analyze and resolve operational needs and problems.
Apply financial, policy, and program requirements to system functionality.
Read, interpret, and apply complex financial rules and technical material.
Understand relationships among multiple interrelated systems.
Excellent oral and written communication skills, including presentations of financial and operational data and recommendations.
Desired Qualifications
Master's degree in business.
7‑10 years of experience as a financial analyst in higher education.
Extensive experience with the Ohio State University budgeting and accounting systems, processes, and procedures.
Experience with Workday.
Experience with Tableau.
Experience in healthcare information systems.
Additional Information
This position requires successful completion of a criminal background check and drug and alcohol screening.
Work is performed primarily in an office environment; the employee in this class is subject to inside environmental conditions.
This position requires sustained periods using a keyboard and performing other computer work.
Requires sufficient personal mobility and physical reflexes, which permits the employee to function in a general office environment to accomplish tasks.
Salary $90,000.00 – $150,000.00
Equal Opportunity Statement The university is an equal opportunity employer, including veterans and disability. As required by Ohio Revised Code section 3345.0216, Ohio State will: educate students by means of free, open and rigorous intellectual inquiry to seek the truth; equip students with the opportunity to develop intellectual skills to reach their own, informed conclusions; not require, favor, disfavor or prohibit speech or lawful assembly; create a community dedicated to an ethic of civil and free inquiry, which respects the autonomy of each member, supports individual capacities for growth and tolerates differences in opinion; treat all faculty, staff and students as individuals, hold them to equal standards and provide equality of opportunity with regard to race, ethnicity, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity or gender expression.
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Department Dentistry | College Administration
Location Postle Hall (0024)
Position Type Regular
Scheduled Hours 40
Shift First Shift
Work Schedule Monday‑Friday
Job Purpose The Ohio State University College of Dentistry is seeking a Senior Business Intelligence Analyst whose focus will be on optimizing the financial health and performance of the college. Reporting to the Chief Administrative Officer, this highly visible and high‑impact position is responsible for providing insightful analysis and decision support.
Responsibilities
Work with the business to understand and design analytical approaches to open‑ended strategic business problems and communicate insights.
Fuel strategic decision‑making with key stakeholders through reports, dashboards, presentations, storytelling, and thoughtful discussion.
Develop and leverage business understanding, analytical and visualization tools, and knowledge of data sources.
Perform sophisticated statistical analyses on data sets from multiple sources to impact performance optimization, goal setting, strategic decisions, and the generation of new hypotheses.
Provide insightful analysis as a basis for information dissemination, strategic planning, and decision making related to the operational and financial performance of the College.
Identify trends and areas of performance opportunity.
Assess information needs and develop and maintain analytic and visualization systems, processes, and business intelligence tools to support budgeting, modeling, forecasts, reports, analyses, and presentations of results.
Prepare analyses, visualizations, and reports of operational and financial performance, including comparisons to identified standards, targets, and/or strategic plans, for senior leaders.
Identify and interpret financial and operational trends and projections and effectively communicate the meaning of analytical findings; develop and present recommendations.
Initiate and prepare analyses of complex business issues related to strategic priorities of the college; identify appropriate techniques and methodologies for conducting analysis and presenting results; establish performance metrics and standards.
Provide analytical support to the annual budget process and forward‑looking forecasts; develop “what‑if” scenarios as requested.
Lead analytical initiatives with cross‑functional groups across the college and University.
Required Qualifications
Bachelor's degree.
7‑10 years of experience as a financial or business analyst preparing analyses and reports using statistical, operational, and financial data.
Extensive experience with accounting, budgeting, and forecasting systems, processes, and procedures.
Extensive experience with databases and data warehouses.
Demonstrated ability to create and utilize analytic, forecasting, modeling, and business intelligence tools and concepts.
Demonstrated ability to create and utilize financial model projections and scenarios.
Excellent analytical skills, including experience with data modeling, spreadsheets, and databases.
Advanced experience with Excel and Tableau or similar software.
Demonstrated ability to work independently and as a member of a team with individuals at all levels within the college.
Analyze and resolve operational needs and problems.
Apply financial, policy, and program requirements to system functionality.
Read, interpret, and apply complex financial rules and technical material.
Understand relationships among multiple interrelated systems.
Excellent oral and written communication skills, including presentations of financial and operational data and recommendations.
Desired Qualifications
Master's degree in business.
7‑10 years of experience as a financial analyst in higher education.
Extensive experience with the Ohio State University budgeting and accounting systems, processes, and procedures.
Experience with Workday.
Experience with Tableau.
Experience in healthcare information systems.
Additional Information
This position requires successful completion of a criminal background check and drug and alcohol screening.
Work is performed primarily in an office environment; the employee in this class is subject to inside environmental conditions.
This position requires sustained periods using a keyboard and performing other computer work.
Requires sufficient personal mobility and physical reflexes, which permits the employee to function in a general office environment to accomplish tasks.
Salary $90,000.00 – $150,000.00
Equal Opportunity Statement The university is an equal opportunity employer, including veterans and disability. As required by Ohio Revised Code section 3345.0216, Ohio State will: educate students by means of free, open and rigorous intellectual inquiry to seek the truth; equip students with the opportunity to develop intellectual skills to reach their own, informed conclusions; not require, favor, disfavor or prohibit speech or lawful assembly; create a community dedicated to an ethic of civil and free inquiry, which respects the autonomy of each member, supports individual capacities for growth and tolerates differences in opinion; treat all faculty, staff and students as individuals, hold them to equal standards and provide equality of opportunity with regard to race, ethnicity, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity or gender expression.
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