Business Strategy Analyst Lead

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As a dedicated Business Strategy Analyst Lead, you will utilize quantitative and qualitative analysis to provide thought-leadership on evolving industry trends, market developments, USAA's strategic direction, regulatory environment, and macroeconomic trends for the business unit. Provide insights and information-based context for key stakeholders in the business unit to effectively manage, influence, and impact line of business strategy. D&A Community Jobs that are part of a community have unique requirements established to maintain consistent application, usage and reporting structure. Please reach out to your HR Business Partner for additional information on specific requirements prior to posting and/or employee placement into this job. For information on hiring in this Community, visit go/dajobgov. Tasks: Lead discussions with key stakeholders to communicate information learned from analyses, provide input into line of business strategy development, and drive and influence business decisions. Leads integration of the analytic strategy and business strategy. Oversee efforts to identify key business assumptions and hypotheses around line of business strategy. Continuously refines hypotheses and identifies business questions to explore further. Develop the analytical framework and blueprint to answer business questions identified in the business portfolio, product, or member experience and provides support to lower levels towards this effort. Collaborate with key stakeholders to evaluate and uncover complex or critical strategic insights related to Profit & Loss performance including Product Strategy, Pricing, Marketing, Sales, Credit Risk, Distribution Channels, and Member Experience. Apply expert analytical rigor to define outcome measures, improve prioritization, increase agility in decisioning, improve ability to evaluate progress towards business outcomes, and to evaluate risks to strategic goals. Effectively influence and drive strategic agreement utilizing subject matter expertise and interpersonal and negotiation skills. Serve as a team lead and provides guidance and on-the-job training to team members. Ensure risks associated with business activities are effectively identified, measured, monitored, and controlled in accordance with risk and compliance policies and procedures. What you have: Bachelor's degree in Business, Science, Finance, Economics or related field; OR 4 years of relevant education and/or experience. 8 years of data and/or analytics or strategy consulting experience; OR a minimum of 6 years of data and/or analytics or strategy consulting experience and up to 2 years of progressive functional business relevant experience for a total of 8 years of combined experience; OR Advanced Degree in Business, Science, Finance, Economics or related discipline and 6 years of experience in data and/or analytics or strategy consulting. Experience identifying business needs and developing strategic plans driven by qualitative/quantitative analysis and market insights. Experience working with leadership teams to identify key opportunities to develop and enhance business strategy using quantitative and qualitative analytics. Experience influencing business decisions. Strong analytical skills with experience using hypotheses-driven problem solving. Extensive experience leading