business analyst - financial forecasting.

g SQL skills and a high level of attention to detail to generate accurate loss curves, revenue curves, and cohort performance views used throughout the organization. The Analyst I will leverage these curves to enhance customer segmentation, performance monitoring, and reporting, while collaborating across departments to provide clear, data-driven insights that guide strategic and operational decisions.

Salary: $60k-85k/year DOE

Responsibilities:
-Attend stakeholder meetings to understand reporting needs and provide data-driven insights
-Build, update, and maintain recurring reports to monitor key business and financial performance metrics
-Perform ad-hoc analyses to answer operational, financial, and strategic questions, delivering clear and actionable findings
-Convert existing point estimates of loss and revenue into cumulative loss curves, revenue curves, and cohort performance views
-Maintain and enhance curve-generation logic to ensure consistency and accuracy across customer segments and portfolios
-Use curve outputs to support customer segmentation, variance analysis, and performance tracking
-Compare actual performance against expected curve values and identify drivers of deviations
-Collaborate with cross-functional teams-including Accounting, Finance, Risk, and -Operations to ensure alignment on metrics, assumptions, and reporting requirements
-Assist in data quality checks and validation to ensure accuracy of reporting and curve calculations
-Design and maintain dashboards that present key financial and performance indicators -for management review
-Communicate analytical findings clearly to both technical and non-technical audiences to support informed decision-making
-Ensure timely delivery of all reporting, analytics, and curve updates

Working hours: 8:00 AM - 5:00 PM

Skills:
-Experience in an analytics, reporting, or financial performance role
-Familiarity with a programming language such as Python or R for data manipulation
-Basic understanding of data visualization tools (e.g., Tableau, Power BI)
-Exposure to financial services, lending, portfolio analysis, or customer segmentation

Education:
Bachelors

Experience:
1-4 years

Qualifications:
-Bachelor's degree in a quantitative or analytical field (e.g., Statistics, Business/Economics, Mathematics, Data Science, Engineering)
-Working knowledge of SQL with the ability to query and manipulate large datasets
-Proficiency with Excel, including formulas, lookups, and data analysis functions
-Strong attention to detail and a proactive, problem-solving mindset
-Ability to communicate analytical findings clearly to both technical and non-technical audiences
-Ability to work collaboratively across Accounting, Finance, Risk, and Operations


To be considered, please apply online at www.spherion.com/apply or if you have questions you can reach out to Troy Thoms at 605-610-3204

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