What are the responsibilities and job description for the Business Intelligence Analyst III - Hybrid position at Principal Financial Group?
What You'll Do
We’re seeking an experienced Business Intelligence Analyst to join our Data and Analytics Team, where you'll play a key role in supporting the distribution/sales teams for Business Owner and Workplace Benefits solutions.
This role involves converting intricate data into useful insights that distribution teams can easily understand and apply to their strategic efforts to grow and retain business. You'll work closely with colleagues to advocate standard BI practices, drive innovation, and build essential and insightful products.
Key Responsibilities
As Principal continues to modernize its systems, this role will offer you an exciting opportunity to build solutions that will directly impact our long-term strategy and tech stack, all while ensuring that our products are robust, scalable, and secure!
Who You Are
Salary ranges below reflect targeted base salaries. Non-sales positions have the opportunity to participate in a bonus program. Sales positions are eligible for sales incentives, and in some instances a bonus plan, whereby total compensation may far exceed base salary depending on individual performance. Actual compensation for all roles will be based upon geographic location, work experience, education, licensure requirements and/or skill level and will be finalized at the time of offer.
Salary Range (Non-Exempt expressed as hourly; Exempt expressed as yearly)
$86450 - $116850 / year
Time Off Program
Flexible Time Off (FTO) is provided to salaried (exempt) employees and provides the opportunity to take time away from the office with pay for vacation, personal or short-term illness. Employees don’t accrue a bank of time off under FTO and there is no set number of days provided.
Pension Eligible
Yes
Additional Information
Work Environments
This role offers in-office, hybrid (blending at least three office days in a typical work week) from Des Moines, IA.
Work Authorization/Sponsorship
At this time, we're not considering applicants that need any type of immigration sponsorship (additional work authorization or permanent work authorization) now or in the future to work in the United States. This includes, but IS NOT LIMITED TO: F1-OPT, F1-CPT, H-1B, TN, L-1, J-1, etc. For additional information around work authorization needs please use the following links.
Nonimmigrant Workers and Green Card for Employment-Based Immigrants
Investment Code of Ethics
For Principal Asset Management positions, you’ll need to follow an Investment Code of Ethics related to personal and business conduct as well as personal trading activities for you and members of your household. These same requirements may also apply to other positions across the organization.
Experience Principal
At Principal, we value connecting on both a personal and professional level. Together, we’re imagining a more purpose-led future for financial services - and that starts with you. Our success depends on the unique experiences, backgrounds, and talents of our employees. And we support our employees the same way we support our customers: with comprehensive, competitive benefit offerings crafted to protect their physical, financial, and social well-being. Check out our careers site to learn more about our purpose, values and benefits.
Principal is an Equal Opportunity Employer
All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, or veteran status.
Posting Window
We will accept applications for 3 full days following the Original Posting Date, after which the posting may remain open or be removed based upon applications received. If we choose to post the job again, we will accept additional applications for at least 1 full day following the Most Recently Posted Date. Please submit applications in a timely manner as there is no guarantee the posting will be available beyond the applicable deadline.
Original Posting Date
4/2/2025
Most Recently Posted Date
4/3/2025
We’re seeking an experienced Business Intelligence Analyst to join our Data and Analytics Team, where you'll play a key role in supporting the distribution/sales teams for Business Owner and Workplace Benefits solutions.
This role involves converting intricate data into useful insights that distribution teams can easily understand and apply to their strategic efforts to grow and retain business. You'll work closely with colleagues to advocate standard BI practices, drive innovation, and build essential and insightful products.
Key Responsibilities
- Design, develop, and maintain scalable data pipelines and data visualizations that deliver impactful dashboards; transform complex data into clear, actionable insights
- Research, analyze, and validate data sources for accurate and comprehensive data to support decision-making
- Collaborate with business users and others, to grasp business strategies and objectives, then build and implement business intelligence solutions to drive and measure outcomes
- Effectively collaborate within project teams to develop and maintain processes or systems in accordance with target dates. This may include partnering closely with Data Engineers, Data Analysts, Data Scientists, Analytics Consultants, and Product Managers, as well as key business partners and domain experts
- Champion, promote, and drive implementation of development best practices for Business Intelligence solutions
- Proactively explore and evaluate emerging BI tools, features, and industry trends to drive the future of business intelligence
- Train and coach users on BI tools and self-service capabilities; promote data literacy across the enterprise
- Ensures data governance policies are followed
As Principal continues to modernize its systems, this role will offer you an exciting opportunity to build solutions that will directly impact our long-term strategy and tech stack, all while ensuring that our products are robust, scalable, and secure!
Who You Are
- Bachelor's Degree in technical or analytical field or equivalent experience
- 4 years of related experience with analytics required
- Recognized as a leader in analytics, typically through advanced education and extensive work experience.
- Experience using Power BI or other business intelligence applications (e.g Domo, Looker, Qlik, Tableau, SiSense, SAS, Business Objects)
- Experience working with different on-prem and Cloud SQL data sources (e.g. Snowflake, AWS Athena, SQL Server, Oracle, DB2)
- Ability to effectively collaborate and communicate with various levels of the organization
- Ability to mentor and review work of team members
- Proven experience in developing BI solutions while advocating for innovation, consistency, and best practices within the team
- Advanced expertise in Power BI
Salary ranges below reflect targeted base salaries. Non-sales positions have the opportunity to participate in a bonus program. Sales positions are eligible for sales incentives, and in some instances a bonus plan, whereby total compensation may far exceed base salary depending on individual performance. Actual compensation for all roles will be based upon geographic location, work experience, education, licensure requirements and/or skill level and will be finalized at the time of offer.
Salary Range (Non-Exempt expressed as hourly; Exempt expressed as yearly)
$86450 - $116850 / year
Time Off Program
Flexible Time Off (FTO) is provided to salaried (exempt) employees and provides the opportunity to take time away from the office with pay for vacation, personal or short-term illness. Employees don’t accrue a bank of time off under FTO and there is no set number of days provided.
Pension Eligible
Yes
Additional Information
Work Environments
This role offers in-office, hybrid (blending at least three office days in a typical work week) from Des Moines, IA.
Work Authorization/Sponsorship
At this time, we're not considering applicants that need any type of immigration sponsorship (additional work authorization or permanent work authorization) now or in the future to work in the United States. This includes, but IS NOT LIMITED TO: F1-OPT, F1-CPT, H-1B, TN, L-1, J-1, etc. For additional information around work authorization needs please use the following links.
Nonimmigrant Workers and Green Card for Employment-Based Immigrants
Investment Code of Ethics
For Principal Asset Management positions, you’ll need to follow an Investment Code of Ethics related to personal and business conduct as well as personal trading activities for you and members of your household. These same requirements may also apply to other positions across the organization.
Experience Principal
At Principal, we value connecting on both a personal and professional level. Together, we’re imagining a more purpose-led future for financial services - and that starts with you. Our success depends on the unique experiences, backgrounds, and talents of our employees. And we support our employees the same way we support our customers: with comprehensive, competitive benefit offerings crafted to protect their physical, financial, and social well-being. Check out our careers site to learn more about our purpose, values and benefits.
Principal is an Equal Opportunity Employer
All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, or veteran status.
Posting Window
We will accept applications for 3 full days following the Original Posting Date, after which the posting may remain open or be removed based upon applications received. If we choose to post the job again, we will accept additional applications for at least 1 full day following the Most Recently Posted Date. Please submit applications in a timely manner as there is no guarantee the posting will be available beyond the applicable deadline.
Original Posting Date
4/2/2025
Most Recently Posted Date
4/3/2025
Salary : $86,450 - $116,850
