Business Intelligence Analysts

What the job really is

Produce financial and market intelligence by querying data repositories and generating periodic reports. Devise methods for identifying data patterns and trends in available information sources.

At a glance

• Sector: Computer & Mathematical
• O*NET-SOC code: 15-2051
• O*NET job zone: 4 — considerable preparation
• Work sample tasks on file: 12
• Tools and technologies listed: 12

What you actually do

Work sample tasks recorded for this occupation:

• Manage timely flow of business intelligence information to users.
• Provide technical support for existing reports, dashboards, or other tools.
• Generate standard or custom reports summarizing business, financial, or economic data for review by executives, managers, clients, and other stakeholders.
• Maintain or update business intelligence tools, databases, dashboards, systems, or methods.
• Identify and analyze industry or geographic trends with business strategy implications.
• Document specifications for business intelligence or information technology reports, dashboards, or other outputs.
• Create business intelligence tools or systems, including design of related databases, spreadsheets, or outputs.
• Collect business intelligence data from available industry reports, public information, field reports, or purchased sources.
• Disseminate information regarding tools, reports, or metadata enhancements.
• Conduct or coordinate tests to ensure that intelligence is consistent with defined needs.
• Synthesize current business intelligence or trend data to support recommendations for action.
• Analyze competitive market strategies through analysis of related product, market, or share trends.

Tools and technology

AJAX, Adobe Acrobat, Alteryx software, Amazon DynamoDB, Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud EC2, Amazon Redshift, Amazon Web Services AWS software, Apache Cassandra, Apache Hadoop, Apache Hive, Apache Kafka, Apache Spark

What employers expect you to already be comfortable with.

Where this job leads

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• Data Scientists
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• Financial Risk Specialists
• Operations Research Analysts

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O*NET assigns this occupation job zone 4 (considerable preparation). The related occupations above are the realistic routes in and out.

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