Business Analyst - Sales Operations

Employer
  • Akamai Technologies

Job Description

Do you have a passion for using data to help make effective business decisions?

Do you enjoy collaborating with teams to solve complex challenges?

Join our Sales BI & Analytics Team!

The team's goal is to enable smarter, faster, and more reliable business decisions at Akamai. We engage with senior Sales and Operations Leaders across the globe to support their analytical needs by delivering informative dashboards and actionable insights.

Partner with the best Sales Operations Team!

Business Intelligence, Strategic thinking and Data governance are core values of this team. Partner with sales-operations and executives to build GTM strategy and decision making by providing insights proactively.

As a member of this team, you will be responsible for:

  • Building interactive dashboards and applications in Anaplan and Tableau to provide business insight
  • Participating in end-to-end system implementation projects (requirements documentation, solution design, systems configuration, test documentation/execution, issue identification and resolution).
  • Architecting innovative solutions to automate and scale business systems as well as locating, gathering and aggregating multiple data sources to analyze and understand business trends and measuring initiative success
  • Engaging with stakeholders across various functions to gather requirements, propose actionable recommendations and provide updates on progress
  • Partnering with business teams in defining and documenting business processes, developing delivery roadmaps, and associated system requirements.
  • Providing regular and ad hoc analysis and reporting for management, and communicate results and recommendations in a clear, actionable, and engaging way

Do what you love

To be successful in this role you will:

  • Have a Bachelors degree and 5 years of experience in highly analytical environments and/or prior consultative experience
  • Have certification as an Anaplan Model Builder (L1 & L2). Additional certification is a plus.
  • Have the ability to translate from model-building in Excel to multi-dimensional technologies like Anaplan Agree
  • Have experience with end-to-end agile implementations, from scoping and requirements, to design and build, and testing and training
  • Have experience designing and delivering an intuitive user experience, and developing well structured design documentation
  • Be a good communicator and problem solver with the ability to partner across cultures and functions and quickly identify issues and propose solutions

Work in a way that works for you

We recognize that everyone is different and that the way in which people want to work and deliver at their best is different for everyone too. In this role, we can offer the following flexible working patterns:

We are happy to discuss flexible working options in this role, please discuss your requirements with the recruiter when you apply.

Working with us

At Akamai, were curious, innovative, collaborative and tenacious. We celebrate diversity of thought and we hold an unwavering belief that we can make a meaningful difference. Our teams use their global perspectives to put customers at the forefront of everything they do, so if you are people-centric, youll thrive here.

Working for you

At Akamai, we will provide you with opportunities to grow, flourish, and achieve great things. Our benefit options are designed to meet your individual needs for today and in the future. We provide benefits surrounding all aspects of your life:

  • Your health
  • Your finances
  • Your family
  • Your time at work
  • Your time pursuing other endeavors

Our benefit plan options are designed to meet your individual needs and budget, both today and in the future.

About us

Innovating on a global scale, we deliver our customers a fast, smart and secure intelligent edge platform. Working against a backdrop of digital collaboration, our highly skilled teams build progressive solutions that have the scope to transform entertainment, business, and life in ways that we have yet to imagine.

Join us

Are you seeking an opportunity to make a real difference in a company with a global reach and exciting services and clients? Come join us and grow with a team of people who will challenge and inspire you! Akamai Technologies is an Affirmative Action, Equal Opportunity Employer that values the strength that diversity brings to the workplace. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment and will not be discriminated against on the basis of gender, gender identity, sexual orientation, race/ethnicity, protected veteran status, disability, or other protected group status.

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