Sr. Data Analyst - Asset Protection

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Position Purpose

Asset Protection Senior Business Analyst is responsible for identifying, distinguishing and analyzing multiple components of a problem and providing conclusions using high-level quantitative skills. Responsibilities include but are not limited to: leading teams on projects, effective communication to teams and other leaders; querying, reviewing and understanding shrink, markdown, returns and sales/financial data; identifying trends in business and the retail industry; and understanding key operational processes within the stores. Asset Protection Senior Business Analysts typically take direction from AP Managers, work cross-functionally and collaborate on assigned projects. Project management expertise, strong communication skills and cross-functionally partnering with all Asset Protection/LP teams and others throughout Home Depot is critical for the success of an Asset Protection Senior Business Analyst

Key Responsibilities

• Perform data gathering tasks and analytics - identify trends, develop solutions, project/strategy planning and data utilization
• Produce documents for teams and leadership to review and utilize. Deliver presentations to teams and executive leaders and sponsors. Synthesize findings and make recommendations to upper management.
• Build skills and knowledge including self-development, team knowledge and customer (internal) knowledge
  
  

Direct Manager/Direct Reports

• Typically reports to Asset Protection Manager
• No associates report to this role, but requires the leadership of a work group: assign and review work and train to other team members (but not hiring, firing or disciplinary action)
  
  

Travel Requirements

• Typically requires overnight travel less than 10% of the time.
  
  

Physical Requirements

• Most of the time is spent sitting in a comfortable position and there is frequent opportunity to move about. On rare occasions there may be a need to move or lift light articles.
  
  

Working Conditions

• Located in a comfortable indoor area. Any unpleasant conditions would be infrequent and not objectionable.
  
  

Minimum Qualifications

• Must be eighteen years of age or older.
• Must be legally permitted to work in the United States.
  
  

Preferred Qualifications

• Strong project management and organizational skills with attention to detail
• Strong analytics - ability to manipulate data and come to conclusions and make recommendations
• Strong Excel, Access, Word and PowerPoint experience
• Familiarity with Teradata and Relational Databases
• Customer Service oriented
• Demonstrated leadership attributes
• Ability to work in a team environment
• Strong familiarity with extracting data and manipulating large data sets with complex queries using SQL
• Experience with relational databases (Google Cloud/Big Query, DB2, etc.)
• Use of, familiarity with, and development in reporting visualization software and user interfaces (e.g., Tableau, Power BI, MicroStrategy)
• Familiarity with object oriented programming in Python is a plus
  
  

Minimum Education

• The knowledge, skills and abilities typically acquired through the completion of a bachelor's degree program or equivalent degree in a field of study related to the job.
  
  

Preferred Education

• No additional education
  
  

Minimum Years Of Work Experience

• 3
  
  

Preferred Years Of Work Experience

• No additional years of experience
  
  

Minimum Leadership Experience

• None
  
  

Preferred Leadership Experience

• None
  
  

Certifications

• None
  
  

Competencies

• None
  
  

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