Business Intelligence Analyst
Job Location:
Chicago, IL - USA
Monthly Salary:
Not provided by the employer
Posted:
17 June 2026 (30+ days ago)
Application Deadline:
14 September 2026
Vacancies:
1 Vacancy
Job Summary
Position Overview
As a Business Intelligence Analyst Youll be the go-to person for operational data insights and dashboarding. This role bridges operations and analytics: youll build maintain and evolve reports and dashboards in Power BI to support business operations while digging into operational data to surface trends issues and opportunities.
Responsibilities:
- Design develop and maintain interactive Power BI dashboards and reports that support operational KPIs performance tracking and trend-analysis for leadership and frontline teams.
- Work with cross-functional teams (Operations Finance Revenue Operations Data Services etc.) to gather requirements translate them into analytical solutions and deliver actionable insights.
- Integrate data from multiple sources (SQL databases Tabular Models Excel/CSV APIs systems) and perform data cleansing transformation and modeling to create trusted datasets.
- Conduct ongoing operational data analysis: identify patterns anomalies root-cause issues performance levers and present findings with visualizations and narrative.
- Partner with operations teams to monitor metrics generate periodic reports and ad-hoc deep dives.
- Support the operations data infrastructure: help with data governance standardization of metrics documentation of dashboards/reports training users on self-service analytics.
- Maintain report performance implement best practices in models and visualization ensure dashboards are user-friendly and scalable.
- When required assist in process improvement initiatives by providing data-driven recommendations and supporting change management through analytics.
- Develop and maintain documentation of data sources definitions key metrics reporting schedules and data flows.
- Serve as a liaison between analytics/IT teams and operations to ensure timely delivery of accurate reporting and analytics.
Requirements:
Required Qualifications
- Bachelors degree in a quantitative or related field
- Demonstrable experience (0-2 years) as a Data Analyst Business Intelligence Analyst or Operations Analyst with strong Power BI skills.
- Proficiency with Power BI: building reports dashboards data models DAX Power Query.
- Strong SQL skills (writing queries joining tables aggregations) and experience working with relational databases.
- Experience integrating multiple data sources cleaning and transforming data building trustworthy data sets for analytics.
- Excellent analytical thinking and problem-solving capability; ability to move from raw data to actionable insights.
- Clear communication skillscapable of explaining complex data topics to non-technical stakeholders and presenting insights in an operational context.
- Strong organizational skills: ability to manage multiple reporting and analysis tasks meet deadlines respond to ad-hoc requests.
- Familiarity with operations metrics and processes (On Time performance service metrics)
- Comfortable working in a fast-paced environment and driving independent work while collaborating with others.
Preferred Qualifications
- Experience in a transportation-oriented environment.
- Experience with other BI tools or data platforms (Tableau Looker Power Platform Azure Synapse).
- Familiarity with process improvement methodologies such as Six Sigma
- Experience with data governance metric standardization and establishing reporting frameworks.
- Prior experience training users on self-service analytics or building analytics culture.