Business Data Analyst

Security Benefit is hiring a Business Data Analyst for its Data Intelligence team. The role analyzes business and data requirements, creates reports and dashboards, supports data quality and testing, and documents data products for the company’s retirement services, annuities, and investment businesses.

Responsibilities

Independently perform business and data requirements analysis for assigned initiatives — gather requirements from stakeholders, document data flows, and develop functional and data specifications

Develop and maintain reports, dashboards, and data summaries using established analytics and visualization platforms (e.g., Power BI, Tableau, or equivalent); ensure outputs meet business quality standards

Write and execute data queries to extract, validate, and analyze data from the enterprise data platform (e.g., Snowflake, cloud data warehouse); apply profiling techniques to assess data fitness for use

Serve as liaison between business and technical teams — translate business requirements into data specifications and communicate data constraints and solutions back to business partners

Perform data quality assessment activities including source data profiling, anomaly identification, and coordination of remediation with Data Engineering (ELT pipeline owners)

Develop data mapping documentation, traceability matrices, and source-to-target specifications for assigned data products

Support testing activities including preparation of test cases, execution of system and UAT test scripts, logging defects, and contributing to Testing Summary Reports

Maintain program documentation in compliance with corporate data governance standards; participate in data stewardship activities for assigned domains

Contribute to continuous improvement of team analytical processes, templates, and standards under direction of senior colleagues

Preferred

experience working within a cloud data platform environment

Retirement services, annuities, mutual funds, or financial services industry experience

Cloud data platform experience

Retirement services expertise

Annuities expertise

Mutual funds expertise

Financial services industry experience

Benefits

Annual incentive bonuses.

33 days of paid time off (including PTO, holidays, Volunteer Day, and days of significance) for full-time Security Benefit associates.

Paid parental leave after 90 days of service.

Comprehensive medical, dental & vision insurance.

401(k) with company match, plus Profit Sharing & Savings Plan.

Short- and Long-Term Disability Insurance.

Flexible Spending Accounts for medical and dependent care.

Life Insurance.

Educational assistance to support your career development.

Associate assistance programs for your personal and professional well-being.

Hybrid schedule, offering flexibility to work both remotely and on-site.

Company

Retirement solutions provider offering annuities and mutual fund programs.

Topeka, Kansas, USA

https://securitybenefit.com/

Founded in 1892

501-1000 employees

Qualifications

Bachelor's degree in Data Analytics, Business Administration, Computer Science, Information Systems, or related field

2–4 years of experience in business data analysis, data reporting, or a closely related analytical role

Solid proficiency in data querying tools (e.g., SQL, Snowflake) including writing queries, joins, aggregations, and data profiling techniques

Experience developing reports and dashboards using business intelligence and visualization platforms (e.g., Power BI, Tableau, or equivalent)

Familiarity with data warehouse concepts and ELT architecture patterns

Experience gathering and documenting business requirements including data flow diagrams, functional specifications, and source-to-target mappings

Strong analytical and problem-solving skills; ability to investigate data issues and communicate findings clearly

Experience working within a cloud data platform environment

Retirement services, annuities, mutual funds, or financial services industry experience

Required skills

SQL, Snowflake, Power BI, Tableau, Data Warehousing, ELT Architecture, Data Profiling, Business Requirements Analysis, Source-to-Target Mapping, Financial Services

Preferred skills

experience working within a cloud data platform environment

Experience

2-4 years