Data Modeling Analyst, Sr. jobs in Normal, IL

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Responsibilities

P&C Analytics is seeking to hire a data analyst on the Operational Trends team. As a data analyst in this role, you will provide actionable insights and analysis to P&C Underwriting & Enterprise Operations executives, department leadership and business partners to enable better decision-making and improve operational performance.

The key work efforts will include:

• Performing timely and accurate analysis to answer business questions in a fast-paced environment.
• Synthesizing and transforming available data into concise verbal, written and visual presentations.
• Developing data requirements, identifying data sources, and validating data and analysis.
• Effectively analyzing data, creating appropriate visualizations, and communicating results of analyses to various levels of leadership in a relevant manner.
• Proactively sharing insights with business partners to enable timely and informed decision making.
• Collaborating with key business partners to understand and communicate trends.
• Serving as a trusted advisor and strategic thought partner to Executive leadership, collaborating broadly with others across State Farm to enable execution of key enterprise priorities and contributing to strategic, high-impact work.

*Applicants are required to be eligible to lawfully work in the U.S. immediately; employer will not sponsor applicants for U.S. work authorization (e.g. H-1B visa) for this opportunity*****

Qualifications

Required skills:

• Preferred- minimum of 3 years of related professional experience and bachelor's degree in relevant field.
• Understanding of the P&C Underwriting environment, and effective application of that knowledge in the work through collaboration with peers, leadership, and business partners.
• Demonstrated learning agility to quickly learn and immediately apply new technical skills and business acumen.
• Strong analytical, critical thinking, and resourcefulness skills.
• Strong communication, presentation, and data visualization skills.
• Comprehensive decision-making and judgment exercised when diagnosing and resolving complex problems and issues.
• Ability to effectively utilize business intelligence data systems, models, financial/statistical resources, and analytical software applications in the creation of reports, charts, and visuals.
• Proficient in SAS and SQL with an understanding of relational databases.
• Proficient in BI Tooling (i.e., Power BI, Qlik, QuickSight).
• Advanced skills within the Microsoft suite, especially Excel, Word, PowerPoint.
• Fluency in AWS cloud-based tools and services and statistical analysis skills are preferred.
• May apply specialized knowledge of research/statistical techniques.
• Ability to work in a high paced environment.