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Within the global SME&C Analytics organization, this role will specifically support the Corporate Accounts business, with a primary focus on Corporate Accounts Intelligence Platform (CAIP) and Azure business intelligence and analytics.\nWe are seeking a Business Analytics Specialist to own and evolve key business intelligence (BI) and analytical capabilities supporting Corporate Accounts. The role will be responsible for translating Corporate Accounts business priorities into scalable reporting, semantic models, and analytical products that enable leaders and field organizations to understand business performance and take action.\nThe successful candidate will play a hands-on role across the analytics lifecycle, from understanding business questions and defining metrics through designing semantic models, developing BI solutions, validating data, and driving adoption.\nA major focus of the role will be CAIP and the Corporate Accounts Azure analytical experience, including ensuring that Azure performance, customer trends, pipeline and execution signals, and business outcomes are represented through a consistent, trusted analytical framework.\nThe role will also contribute to the broader evolution of SME&C’s data and analytics architecture by building reusable semantic models, reducing fragmented reporting, improving data quality and performance, and preparing analytical assets for self-service and AI-enabled experiences.\nApproximately 60% of the role will focus on Corporate Accounts BI, including CAIP and Azure analytics, with approximately 40% focused on semantic models, data architecture, AI readiness, and self-service analytics enablement.\nResponsibilities\nServe as a primary analytics partner for the Corporate Accounts CAIP business, developing an understanding of its business priorities, performance drivers, customer segments, sales motions, and execution model.\nOwn and evolve BI experiences supporting Corporate Accounts CAIP and Azure analytics, ensuring leaders and field stakeholders have trusted and actionable views of business performance.\nDevelop and maintain executive scorecards, dashboards, KPIs, business review views, and analytical products supporting Corporate Accounts.\nDevelop analytical experiences that help stakeholders understand Azure performance, growth trends, customer performance, pipeline and execution signals, and areas of business opportunity or risk.\nPartner with Corporate Accounts business leaders, Sales Excellence, Finance, Strategy, and Operations teams to define reporting requirements, metrics, analytical priorities, and success measures.\nTranslate business requirements into scalable BI solutions rather than one-off reports or analyses.\nProactively identify trends, performance drivers, risks, and opportunities and communicate them through clear analytical narratives.\nEnsure CAIP and related reporting experiences provide consistent definitions and reconcile appropriately across executive, field, and operational views.\nContinuously improve the usability, performance, and relevance of Corporate Accounts BI based on stakeholder needs and changing business priorities.\nData Architecture, Semantic Models & AI Readiness\nDesign, develop, and maintain the semantic models and analytical data products that underpin Corporate Accounts, CAIP, and Azure reporting.\nBuild and optimize Power BI and Microsoft Fabric semantic models that provide a trusted foundation for Corporate Accounts BI, self-service analytics, and AI-enabled experiences.\nTranslate business concepts into well-structured dimensions, measures, hierarchies, relationships, and reusable analytical logic.\nEstablish consistent definitions for key Corporate Accounts metrics and ensure that business logic is implemented consistently across reporting experiences.\nPartner with data engineering teams to improve source data quality, model scalability, refresh reliability, governance, and platform performance.\nIdentify opportunities to consolidate semantic models, rationalize overlapping reporting assets, remove technical debt, and simplify the Corporate Accounts BI architecture.\nDesign analytical assets to support natural-language querying, Copilot-enabled experiences, agentic analytics, and other AI-driven analytical scenarios.\nEnsure semantic models contain the appropriate definitions, metadata, relationships, descriptions, and business context required for both human and AI consumption.\nSupport certification of data assets and semantic models for enterprise use, ensuring they are trusted, governed, documented, and discoverable.\nMonitor and continuously improve model performance, scalability, usability, and reliability.\nData Analysis & Business Evaluation\nAnalyze Corporate Accounts performance across multiple data sources to identify customer, product, sales, and execution trends.\nInvestigate performance changes and determine the underlying drivers behind business results.\nConduct deeper analysis where existing BI views identify potential risks, opportunities, or areas requiring further investigation.\nEvaluate the impact of business initiatives, investments, programs, and changes in execution.\nDevelop repeatable analytical approaches rather than relying on one-time analyses.\nConvert analysis into clear recommendations that business leaders can act upon.\nConnect detailed analytical findings to broader Corporate Accounts and Azure business outcomes.\nStakeholder Partnership & Influence\nBuild trusted relationships across Corporate Accounts leadership, Finance, Strategy, Sales Excellence, Operations, Engineering, and Analytics organizations.\nWork directly with business stakeholders to understand the decisions they need to make and determine the analytical capabilities required to support those decisions.\nChallenge unclear or inconsistent metric definitions and help establish common analytical standards.\nTranslate complex business questions into data requirements, semantic model requirements, KPIs, and analytical experiences.\nCommunicate analytical findings and technical concepts effectively to both business and technical audiences.\nInfluence decisions through business understanding, analytical rigor, and fact-based recommendations.\nAnalytics Excellence & Innovation\nPromote consistent analytics practices across Corporate Accounts, including metric governance, reporting standards, documentation, testing, and quality assurance.\nIdentify and eliminate duplicated or low-value reporting while increasing reuse of trusted semantic models and common analytical components.\nAutomate recurring analytical processes and reduce manual reporting wherever practical.\nEvaluate new Microsoft Fabric, Power BI, Copilot, and AI capabilities and apply them where they materially improve the Corporate Accounts analytics experience.\nSupport SME&C’s broader AI-first analytics strategy by ensuring Corporate Accounts data and semantic models can be safely consumed by both traditional BI and emerging AI experiences.\nQualifications\nBusiness Analytics & BI Expertise\nExperience building business intelligence solutions using Power BI, including dashboards, scorecards, executive reporting, and interactive analytical experiences.\nAnalytical and problem-solving skills with demonstrated ability to convert complex business questions into analytical solutions.\nExperience working with sales, commercial, finance, operations, or customer performance data.\nDemonstrated ability to move beyond reporting results to explain why performance is changing and what actions should be considered.\nExperience translating business requirements into scalable analytical products rather than standalone reports.\nAbility to independently own BI solutions from requirements through development, validation, deployment, and ongoing improvement.\nCorporate / Cloud Business Performance\nExperience supporting sales operations, business operations, finance, strategy, performance management, or commercial organizations.\nUnderstanding of business performance measurement, KPI design, pipeline and execution metrics, and executive reporting frameworks.\nExperience analyzing customer, product, revenue, consumption, pipeline, or sales performance.\nExperience with cloud, Azure, enterprise software, or technology-industry business models is preferred.\nAbility to connect operational and sales indicators to broader business outcomes.\nData Architecture & Analytics Engineering\nHands-on experience designing and maintaining Power BI semantic models and enterprise analytical solutions.\nUnderstanding of dimensional modeling, star schemas, relationships, measures, hierarchies, and semantic layer design.\nExperience with DAX and SQL and the ability to independently investigate and validate data.\nExperience building or optimizing solutions using Power BI and Microsoft Fabric.\nExperience working with large or complex datasets and optimizing models for performance, usability, and scalability.\nUnderstanding of data pipelines, data transformation, data quality, lineage, governance, and certification.\nExperience consolidating fragmented semantic models or reporting solutions into reusable analytical foundations.\nUnderstanding of how semantic models, metadata, business definitions, and data quality enable Copilot, natural-language analytics, and AI-agent scenarios.\nData 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Analytics, Engineering, Computer Science, Marketing, Business, Economics or related field AND 3+ years experience in data analysis and reporting, business intelligence, or business and financial analysis OR Bachelor's Degree in Statistics, Finance, Mathematics, Analytics, Engineering, Computer Science, Marketing, Business, Economics or related field AND 4+ years experience in data analysis and reporting, business intelligence, or business and financial analysis OR equivalent experience.\nAdditional or preferred qualifications\nMaster's Degree in Mathematics, Analytics, Engineering, Computer Science, Marketing, Business, Economics or related field AND 6+ years experience in data analysis and reporting, business intelligence, or business and financial analysis OR Bachelor's Degree in Statistics, Finance, Mathematics, Analytics, Engineering, Computer Science, Marketing, Business, Economics or related field AND 8+ years experience in data analysis and reporting, business intelligence, or business and financial analysis OR equivalent experience.\nBusiness Analytics IC4 - The typical base pay range for this role across the U.S. is USD $106,400 - $203,600 per year. 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