Business Analytics Designer

Job Location: Greater Boston, MA

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Centric Consulting is a management consulting firm that guides clients in the search for answers to complex digital, business and technology problems. We help clients conquer change, optimize processes, elevate technology, and best compete in a digital world. Our core purpose is simple: every day we strive to provide unmatched customer and employee experiences and foster a culture of respect, diversity, and transparency. Headquartered in Ohio, with locations across the country and India, Centric has earned annual recognition by Forbes as one of America’s Best Management Consulting Firms since 2016. Visit our website to learn more.

Our Boston business unit is a draw for Fortune 500 companies, long time family-run companies, and start-ups alike. Our clients know that we are honest, transparent and deliver on our commitments. We have built our team with people who embrace the freedom and responsibility our model depends upon. We’re looking for a Business Analytics Designer to join our growing team.

In this role, you will:

• Interview stakeholders for business process use cases requiring analytics; prioritize with business stakeholders
• Develop a value-chain from scratch: identify major business functions and their workstreams
• Deconstruct existing reports into their constituent attributes and measures
• Develop an information model (UML business entity model) from business stakeholder interviews
• Develop business definitions and metric formulations from business stakeholder interviews
• Conduct visualization design sessions where you are hands-on demonstrating client’s data in a visualization tool; Power BI or Tableu preferred
• Write visualization design specifications and ensure they are correctly implemented by developers
• Ensure developed visualizations are high quality and comply standards around font, color, whitespace or other branding elements
• Design semantic layer organization that will be visible to end-users
• Assist with light data validation, especially comparing the developed solution with legacy reports
• Document mapping of business definitions to data model elements

A successful candidate will have the following characteristics:

• Able to rapidly come up to speed on a client’s core business
• Experienced interviewing and facilitating with VP level business stakeholders
• Performed data visualization developement with Power BI and/or Tableau
• Developed requirements documentation; strong written communication
• Data steward or other data governance responsibilities
• Mid-level SQL for data analysis
• Experienced with Excel Pivot tables
• Participated in data validation work
• Business Process Improvement experience a plus
• Application development experience is a plus
• 5+ years of experience around the skills mentioned above

What makes Centric different?

• Special Culture – Our people make us different. We have highly talented, intelligent individuals across a broad variety of disciplines – who are eager to learn from you and share their own expertise. We embrace fresh perspectives and each other. Don’t take our word for it – check us out on Glassdoor , Facebook , Twitter or Instagram to get a glimpse inside what makes us unique.
• Impact – We think of ourselves as a big company with a  small company feel  – a local player with global reach that combines business, technology and industry expertise.
• Unmatched Experiences – We are allowed to be ourselves here. We are encouraged to be human. It’s at the root of who we are as a firm and  why we’re here .
• Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion – We believe a diverse, inclusive, and equitable work environment is essential to the work we do. We continually strive to ensure our company is a place where all people feel like they belong and are respected and valued regardless of who they are, where they are from, and what experiences they’ve had. Beyond being the right thing to do, it is a business imperative that is fundamental to how we bring our mission and values to life. We believe a Centric Together work environment is essential to what we do.
• Innovation – We value passion, determination, perseverance and innovation . We are inspired because we believe in what we are doing and where we are going.
• Passion for the greater good – We are steadfast in our devotion to the communities we serve and in actively promoting employee involvement in  community improvement projects .
• The Nitty Gritty – Along with the standard health and 401k benefits, we offer self-managed PTO (manage your own work-life balance!), a company paid trip, profit sharing, parental leave and remote working options for our employees. In fact, we wrote the book on creating a remote culture — literally.

Our core purpose at Centric Consulting is to bring unmatched experiences to clients and employees. These aren’t just words we use — it’s how we became a company and who we are today. Providing an unmatched experience means we approach each other as human beings and lead with empathy and humility. It means we work diligently to ensure our company is a place where everyone can create a sense of belonging and feel respected for who they are.

We know that creating and sustaining an authentically welcoming culture requires that we all play a part in fostering diversity, equity, and inclusion , from our business practice to how we show up for employees and communities. At Centric, we seek out and embrace candidates of all backgrounds and identities who have a hunger for learning, collaborating, and generating unmatched experiences. This is how we bring our mission and core values to life, working together to provide the highest value and quality services to our clients while enabling our employees to reach their full potential.