Business Intelligence Lead

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Who we are:

Braviant is a leading provider of tech-enabled credit products that combines breakthrough technology and cutting-edge machine learning to transform how people access credit online. Our next-generation approach to lending reduces credit barriers and creates a Path to Prime to help millions of underbanked consumers build credit history, reduce their cost of borrowing, and achieve financial success.

The role:

Our Business Intelligence (BI) Lead will be instrumental in building and maintaining Braviant's automated business intelligence reporting. They'll collaborate with the Analytics team on predictive models and will maintain reporting views and objects in our enterprise data warehouse. A successful BI Manager will be excited to take on this hands-on, technically challenging role, and will be passionate about problem solving through data in our fluid start up environment.

What you'll be doing:

  • You will work with internal and third-party data sources to create reports using ad hoc SQL, reporting views, and Looker's business intelligence platform.
  • You will develop reporting to monitor various Key Performance Indicators (KPIs) over time and maintain and document these solutions to drive long-term value.
  • You will create, maintain, and monitor daily and intra-day checks to ensure health of production system and data warehouse reporting.
  • You will collaborate with the Analytics team to create strategies for implementation of predictive models.
  • You will work cross-functionally with finance, product, accounting and operations to complete ad hoc analysis in order to help management and other teams understand and interpret business results.
  • You will manage, onboard, coach, and mentor junior BI resources as needed.

What you'll bring:

  • Bachelor's degree required, preferably in a quantitative discipline (e.g., mathematics, statistics, operations research, quantitative finance, physics, engineering, computer science).
  • 5+ years relevant experience in a BI capacity with experience coaching and managing junior resources
  • Proficiency in writing concise and performant SQL queries. Familiarity with other database constructs such as views, materialized views, indices, and ETL processes.
  • Proficiency with Looker, Tableau or QlikView; must have experience with dashboard creation and with backend engineering and administration.
  • equally important…

  • You are able to communicate complex information to a broad range of audiences and act as a subject matter expert, providing guidance/knowledge-sharing with others when needed.
  • You make an impact across your team and deliver results through your ability to consider multiple perspectives, measure success effectively, and execute on complex project plans.
  • You take ownership of projects and with a keen eye to anticipate next steps, creatively problem-solve, maintaining strong cross-functional relationships along the way.
  • You build credibility through by meeting your individual goals as well as how you promote trust, openness and respectful discussions within the team.

What makes you stand out:

  • Proven experience creating dashboards in Looker
  • R and Python experience, particularly for data processing and analysis
  • High-level familiarity with common predictive modeling algorithms
  • Experience with version control and agile development methods. Some familiarity with AWS services such as RDS and EC2
  • Experience in Agile methodology: Scrum, Kanban, Lean, etc
  • Previous experience in the financial industry

What it's like to work here:

We're more than just great snacks, unique outings, a cool office, or swag. We're about achieving results while having fun along the way. We believe in solving problems together and building on each other’s ideas. Our teams are comprised of smart, curious individuals and we encourage everyone to think like an owner, take initiative and drive their careers. Our broad roles provide tremendous opportunities for individuals to acquire new skills, gain exposure to all areas of the business, and quickly see their impact at Braviant.

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Location

Our company is located in the heart of downtown with great access to public transportation (both Metra & CTA), coffee shops, and restaurants. Currently our teams are working remotely for the foreseeable future.

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