Position Summary:

Are you an Analyst with a retail business background? Do you have highly advanced MS Excel skills, significant experience working with databases, and enjoy analysis? We are hiring a Business Analyst II to create analytic reports, interpret data, lead the preparation of the retail annual budget, and manage projects! In this position, you’re serving a great cause, and no two days are the same!

Day in the life: In a typical day, a Business Analyst II can expect to...

Budgets and Forecasts: ensure that Donated Goods Retail (DGR) annual budget and monthly forecast process is timely and accurately completed, in partnership with DGR leadership and support personnel.
Analysis and Reports: establish and create reports needed for effectively analyzing results across multiple metrics, in partnership with manager. Utilize available systems to design and generate reports that are readily accessible, user-friendly, and value-added.
Project Management: plan, manage, and direct projects, including participating in the selection and implementation of new software, from origin through completion, in collaboration with leadership.
Operational Support: provide administrative support for the organization’s budgeting software, in partnership with manager.
Training of Business Analyst: responsible for training and providing assistance to the Business Analyst position.

Job Pay & Perks:

Typical starting pay: $78,000 to $99,000
Work/life balance: This role is eligible to work remotely but must be locally based / available to be on site as needed.
Goodwill-Easter Seals Minnesota prioritizes work-life balance. Many roles are hybrid, and we offer competitive pay, flexible hours, a variety of benefit options and an employee discount.
Benefits: Generous paid time off (PTO) program, competitive medical, dental and vision plans, employer-paid life insurance, 401(k) plan with employer match, employee discount!
Opportunities for career development and advancement.

About You:

Required Knowledge & Skills:

Significant experience with databases including the ability to write queries and build reports.
Highly advanced Excel skills, including advanced formulas, pivot tables, PowerPivot, PowerQuery, and macros.
Proficient in Windows and other Microsoft applications.
Excellent analytical, problem solving, and strategic thinking skills.
Strong attention to detail and high-level of accuracy.
Strong communications skills both oral and written.
Ability and desire to provide excellent customer service.
Ability to work independently and as part of a team.
Ability to coordinate multiple projects simultaneously with the ability to prioritize.
Ability to complete projects in a timely basis and meet deadlines.
High level of initiative and self-motivation.
Excellent organizational skills.
Ability to handle sensitive and confidential information appropriately.

Prior Experience & Education:

3+ years of relevant experience in report analysis, building and formatting reports using multiple tools and/or application software packages, required.
Retail data analysis experience required.
Experience with Adaptive Insights budgeting software preferred.
Bachelor of Arts or Science Degree in a related field preferred.

About Us:

Leadership recognizes the importance of varied backgrounds and racial diversity contributing to our organization’s goals and future.
Goodwill-Easter Seals Minnesota is a 501(c)3 nonprofit that offers job training and customized career support to eliminate barriers to work and independence.
Proceeds from thrift retail, e-commerce, grants and financial contributions fund our nearly 20 customized services that help Minnesotans get equitable access to jobs, create stable careers and realize the power of work.
Shopping and donating items divert over 65 million pounds from local landfills annually and have helped us connect people to jobs since 1919.

Goodwill-Easter Seals Minnesota (GESMN) is an Equal Opportunity Employer committed to creating a diverse workforce. GESMN will not discriminate against any employee or applicant based upon a person’s race, color, creed, religion, national origin, sex, marital status, disability, status with regard to public assistance, age, sexual or affectional orientation, gender identity, familial status, ancestry, local human rights commission activity, citizenship, genetic information, protected veteran or military status, or any other protected class.

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Business Analyst II (remote, locally-based)