About the Role
Title: Business Strategy Analyst I
Location: San Antonio United States
Job Description:
Why USAA?
At USAA, our mission is to empower our members to achieve financial security through highly competitive products, exceptional service and trusted advice. We seek to be the #1 choice for the military community and their families.
Embrace a fulfilling career at USAA, where our core values – honesty, integrity, loyalty and service – define how we treat each other and our members. Be part of what truly makes us special and impactful.
The Opportunity
As a dedicated Business Strategy Analyst I (Mid Level), you will use 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. Provides insights and information-based context for key partners in the business unit to effectively manage, influence, and impact line of business strategy.
This position can work remotely in the continental U.S. with occasional business travel.
What you’ll do:
- Collaborates with partners to identify key business assumptions and hypotheses around line of business strategy. Evaluates and uncovers strategic insights related to Profit & Loss. performance including Product Strategy, Pricing, Marketing, Sales, Credit Risk, Distribution Channels, and Member Experience.
- Assists experienced Business Strategy Analysts and other subject matter experts with refining hypotheses and identifying business questions to explore further.
- Assists in the development of the analytical framework and blueprint to answer business questions identified in the business portfolio, product, or member experience.
- Leverages sophisticated data-driven problem-solving techniques to manipulate and interpret business results.
- Translates findings into insights for strategy management and execution.
- Prepares materials that help communicate the significance of the strategic insights to senior leaders and other key partners. May participate in key partner meetings.
- Ensures risks associated with business activities are effectively identified, measured, supervised, 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 related experience (in addition to the minimum years of experience required) may be substituted in lieu of degree.
- 4 years experience in data and/or analytics or strategy consulting; OR Advanced Degree in Business, Science, Finance, Economics or related field with 2 years 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.
- Demonstrated experience using data analytics to formulate data-driven insights.
- Experience performing data analysis using various data analytics tools (i.e. Microsoft Excel, Tableau, R, Python, SQL, Snowflake, SAS, Adobe Analytics).
- Experience in project management.
What sets you apart:
- US military experience through military service or a military spouse/domestic partner
- Demonstrated success presenting data and analytical findings for Executive and Board of Director consumption.
- Proven track record to analyze consumer behavior to identify root causes of emerging trends.
- 2+ years’ experience working with consumer banking data (deposits, consumer loan, credit cards).
- Ability to research, source, aggregate data vital for financial modeling, to support EMG level decision making.