Business Analyst II

Overview

The Business Analyst II will join a newly formed Content Strategy, Planning and Analysis team, a horizontal function working across the Content Organization to support the ideation, integration and support of structured and unstructured content for AlphaSense's AI platform.

What you'll do

• Conduct due diligence and comparative analysis of existing and prospective content sources and partnerships to support business cases, proposals and cost-benefit analysis scenarios.
• Address ad hoc requests for data analysis and reporting, including usage, readership and coverage details across the AlphaSense content landscape and product offerings.
• Provide support in investigating and addressing inquiries from internal and external stakeholders, including clients and vendors.
• Run detailed data analysis to build dashboards and reporting in support of projects and programs, collaborating with Content Team and Business Intelligence functions.
• Track, process and manage content requests in ProductBoard, and generate reports, dashboards and content presentations.
• Track new industry trends, source new content sets, and compile competitive intelligence to better inform product and content strategy.
• Rapidly get up to speed on AlphaSense, programs, processes and tools and be able to manipulate data effectively.
• Support and identify internal process improvement opportunities by performing a gap analysis of current and future state processes and workflows, and implementing the improved target state.
• Collaborate with Content Leaders, BI Analytics, Finance and other key stakeholders on content usage trends, improvement opportunities and ad hoc analysis for content strategy inputs.

What you'll need

• Minimum 3 or more years of experience in business intelligence, data analysis and due diligence, having worked in consulting, management, financial and corporate services industries.
• Critical thinker with attention to detail and effective organizational skills, able to manage diverse data and build effective presentations for product and content leaders with actionable suggestions.
• Strong analytical skills, with the ability to identify patterns from complex data, produce accurate conclusions, and report critical information or recommendations.
• Ability to multitask and work effectively under time pressure, contribute independently, continue learning new skills, and drive to deliver tangible results.
• Exceptional Excel, Word, PowerPoint, Google Sheets, Google Docs and Google Slides experience.

Nice to have

• Ideally some experience with data manipulation in SQL, Python or R, and data visualization using Tableau, Power BI or Looker.
• Excellent domain knowledge and familiarity with functions and user workflows across buy-side and sell-side, investment banking, private equity, venture capital, corporate and consulting.
• Subject-matter expertise with content feeds, metadata, and assorted document and data delivery types.
• Proactive self-starter able to develop and maintain effective working relationships with the wider team across global locations, and stay focused to meet deadlines.
• Strong presentation and effective communication skills, both written and verbal in English.
• Bachelor's Degree in information systems, statistics, computer science, business administration or a related field.
• Experience with product development frameworks such as Agile or Kanban, or process improvement methodologies such as SAFE or Six Sigma.

Details

• Location: Pune.
• Reports to the Director, Content Strategy, Planning & Analysis.