Strategic Business Analyst

About this role

POSITION SUMMARY

The Strategic Business Analyst works across all departments to help leadership understand business performance, identify opportunities, solve problems, and support better decision-making. This role goes beyond reporting by analyzing data, uncovering trends, investigating issues, and providing actionable insights that improve profitability, efficiency, and overall business results.

The ideal candidate is naturally curious, enjoys digging into data, asks questions, identifies root causes, and helps tell the story behind the numbers.

RESPONSIBILITIES

• Develop a strong understanding of company systems, data sources, and business processes.

• Create and maintain meaningful dashboards, KPIs, and management reporting.

• Analyze financial and operational performance to identify trends, risks, and opportunities.

• Evaluate expenses, cost drivers, and budget-to-actual variances.

• Support audits, reconciliations, exception reporting, and special investigations.

• Analyze customer, product, and market profitability.

• Identify pricing issues, margin leakage, and revenue improvement opportunities.

• Evaluate supply, purchasing, fleet, and logistics performance to improve efficiency and reduce costs.

• Develop sales and customer analytics related to growth, retention, volume, revenue, and margin.

• Monitor accounts receivable trends and identify potential risks.

• Support forecasting, financial modeling, strategic planning, and acquisition analysis.

• Serve as a trusted resource for leadership by investigating business questions and providing data-driven recommendations.

• Partner with department leaders to identify operational challenges, measure performance, and recommend process improvements.

• Evaluate data quality, reporting accuracy, and system integration opportunities to improve confidence in business decisions.

• Develop and monitor key performance indicat...