Senior Business Analyst, Business Intelligence

Key Skills

Apache Hadoop, C Programming, C++, Data science techniques, Java Programming, Machine learning techniques, MapReduce, Python Programming, PyTorch, R Programming, Scala Programming, SQL, TensorFlow

Job Description

Due to the current conditions and impact of Covid-19, this key position will initially work from home, until such a time we open our offices. At the time of the local office opening, employees and managers will partner to determine the work site location in line with our Flexible working policy.

Who You Are:

The Business Intelligence team at Getty Images are seeking an individual who is passionate about analytics. An advocate of data driven decision making, experienced in surfacing insights and bringing understanding to sophisticated business issues, innovative in identifying solutions and presenting recommendations on how to optimize and advance in support of strategic objectives.

In this role you will be a key strategic business partner collaborating closely with Product Managers and other senior collaborators, including our executive team, forming an integral part of major business initiatives where your influence will make a significant impact to the success of the business.

Success in this role will require the right combination of intellectual curiosity and entrepreneurial sense to identify truth within extensive amounts of data and noise with speed and efficiency. Someone who thrives working with large, sometimes complex data sets, converting raw data into meaningful information. Someone who is adaptable and eager to learn, being highly organized and hard-working is critical. The ideal candidate should feel at home in the grey area of analytics, having the end-to-end skills to compile data in novel ways, ultimately translating this data into concrete insights.

Your Next Challenge:

• The Senior Business Analyst operates as a strategic partner to Primary Stakeholders in Getty Images’ Product, Ecommerce and Executive teams, as well as supporting Sales, Marketing, Business Development and the broader business in other key initiatives. Collaborating directly with Executive and Senior Management level colleagues to help understand and answer the hardest questions and challenges the business faces. The role will be deeply involved in developing data models to outline risk, opportunity, and optimization opportunities for the business to evaluate. In addition, the role will be responsible for monitoring business performance, diagnosing key drivers and causation, evaluating the relative merits or limitations of possible options, communicating recommendations on how to best address and react, and finally supporting the execution of decisions.
• Investigate and report key business indicators to the leadership team with a focus on decision-driving analytics, communicating useful insights.
• Perform ad hoc analysis to investigate business performance and trends, with a focus on Product performance, adoption and utilization, and ecommerce activity.
• Modeling business initiatives and proposals to understand opportunity and risk.
• Develop a deep understanding of our customers, through cohort analyses and segmentation, to uncover insights and inform acquisition, retention and cross/upsell strategies.
• Complete growth strategies as a core member of multiple workstreams formed into cross-functional teams including product managers, product owners and designers, sales and marketing, user experience and beyond.
• Participate in strategic and tactical planning initiatives that shape business objectives.

What You Will Need:

• 2+ years of transferable experience in a highly analytical field, specifically consulting, finance, business or product analytics.
• Must have strong hands-on experience using SQL to extract and manipulate data, working with large datasets in Hive or other cloud-based Data Warehouse tools like Snowflake/Presto/Qubole/EMR/Hue preferred.
• Advanced Excel modeling skills are essential.
• Experience with business analysis and working with product owners in a fast-paced environment, working both independently and collaboratively to discover and propose relevant solution objectives and requirements.
• Ability to analyze and decompose problem statements, distilling these into clearly defined requirements.
• A confident and effective communicator, with experience and comfort addressing and collaborating with senior partners.
• Ability to impart complex information in an easily digestible form, to both technical and non-technical audiences.
• A flexible and curious attitude, open to new things and able to propose innovative ideas, able to work creatively and analytically in a time-limited, problem-solving environment.
• Experience with subscription products or background in e-Commerce businesses would be advantageous.
• Experience with pricing analytics is preferred.
• Experience with Google Analytics or other web analytics tools is not required but a plus.
• Experience developing reports with data visualization tools like Looker also a plus.
• Bachelor’s Degree in Mathematics, Business, Data Science, or another highly quantitative subject area preferred. Commiserate experience will be considered.

Mental and Physical Demands:

• Frequent communication with others to exchange information.
• Occasionally moving objects up to 20 lbs and frequently moving objects up to 10 lbs.
• Frequent sedentary work that primarily involves sitting/standing; Time of each will vary.
• Constant operation of computer and frequent usage of other office machinery, including (but not limited to) calculator, copy machine, computer printer, etc.
• Constant assessment of accuracy and thoroughness of the work assignment.