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Sr. Business Analyst - People Strategy & Analytics

Capital One senior full-time

Salary

$111,200 - $126,900 per year

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Description

We are seeking a Senior Business Analyst to join our People Strategy & Analytics team at Capital One. As a Senior Business Analyst, you will apply your strategic and analytical skills to solve open-ended, complex questions about how we should attract, develop, and retain top talent.

Your day-to-day might involve:

  • Using data & analysis to help executives conduct workforce planning or set organizational strategy effectively
  • Designing new frameworks for evaluating the success of workforce programs
  • Developing analyses and tools to help Capital One retain and develop the best talent

General Responsibilities:

  • Strategic problem solving: Identify high impact opportunities to transform the associate experience, conduct analysis, and share insights that inform solutions
  • Design: Drive and build key programs and analytics solutions for our partners, including measurement strategy, attribution modeling, and automated insights
  • Experimentation: Partner with clients in experiment design to better understand key drivers of associate behavior
  • Insights & analysis: Analyze the impact of our programs and combine those insights with the latest thinking in organizational science to help our clients make data-driven, informed decisions

Successful Team Members Demonstrate Competencies In These Areas

  • Purpose: You feel a deep personal connection to improving the associate experience and are motivated by applying advanced analytics in a mission-driven way
  • Analytical thinking: A proven track record of decision making and problem solving based on analytics. Conceptual thinking skills must be complemented by a strong quantitative orientation. Identify opportunities for improvement and use data to make strategic and tactical recommendations
  • Execution: Develop and test hypotheses, design solutions, assess operational feasibility, support implementation efforts, and develop plans and tools for monitoring outcomes
  • Partnership: Collaborate effectively with other team members and clients in HR
  • Communication: Strong written and oral communication skills, including visualization skills (i.e., able to “tell the story” and highlight key insights in a clear and concise manner that is easily understood by stakeholders)
  • Results focus: Drives for results and achieves important goals applying strong organizational skills and detail orientation, even amidst ambiguity

Basic Qualifications:

  • At least 2 years of professional experience performing analysis
  • Currently has, or is in the process of obtaining one of the following with an expectation that the required degree will be obtained on or before the scheduled start date:
  • A Bachelor's Degree in a quantitative field (Business, Finance, Accounting, Statistics, Economics, Operations Research, Analytics, Mathematics, Computer Science, Computer engineering, Software engineering, Mechanical engineering, Information Systems or a related quantitative field)
  • A Master's Degree in a quantitative field (Business, Finance, Accounting, Statistics, Economics, Operations Research, Analytics, Mathematics, Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Software Engineering, Mechanical engineering, Information Systems or a related quantitative field) or an MBA with a quantitative concentration

Preferred Qualifications:

  • Master’s Degree in Business or quantitative field such as Finance, Economics, Physical Sciences, Math, Statistics, Engineering
  • 1+ years of experience in Statistical model building
  • 1+ years of experience in market research
  • 1+ years of experience in SQL querying
  • 2+ years of experience in business analysis
  • 1+ years of experience in consulting

The minimum and maximum full-time annual salaries for this role are: McLean, VA: $111,200 - $126,900 for Sr. Business Analyst Richmond, VA: $101,100 - $115,400 for Sr. Business Analyst

This role is also eligible to earn performance-based incentive compensation, which may include cash bonus(es) and/or long-term incentives (LTI).

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