Are you someone with a passion for data, analytics, insights and technology?  Are you searching for an area where you can have broad impact across one of the biggest software businesses in the world?

The Microsoft 365 Insights, Data Engineering and Analytics (Microsoft 365 IDEAs) Team is looking for a Senior Data Analyst to focus on corporate and product momentum – non-financial data disclosures.

This work includes:

• Providing holistic, M365/Windows/Security customer and business insights
• Working with a wide array of audiences (Investor Relations, Engineering, Marketing, Finance, Sales, PR and executive Communications) and working in a consultative manner to provide insights, metric performance summaries and public facing disclosures
• Providing clear data/reporting to determine the current performance and future outlooks for our metrics
• Providing actionable intelligence and analytics that will make our products and services better and grow our business.

To be successful in this role, you must have very strong skills in written and oral communications, a can-do attitude and the willingness to tackle hard problems in innovative ways. You also thrive in a team environment that values cross team collaboration and building on the success of others.

Responsibilities

Responsibilities:-

• Partner with analysts to deliver quarterly metric growth statements for earnings and CEO level
• Work with these stakeholders to define clear signals of success, which translate into simple, easily understood metrics and external statements
• Work with Data Science and Data Engineering resources to develop requirements for data, reporting, views, tools
• Develop roadmap of data-based capabilities and tools to meet vision of scenarios
• Lead deep dives projects and analyses into metric performance and special projects
• Craft external facing data-driven statements that capture the growth and impact of our businesses; deliver data-driven customer narratives
• Deliver mistake-free outputs in a fast-paced environment in a highly professional manner.

Qualifications

• 10+ years’ hands-on analytics experience with proven quantitative orientation
• Exceptional communication and writing skills, PR and executive level experience
• Advanced working knowledge of large data manipulation and data mining using SQL
• Advanced Excel and PowerPoint skills, as well as visualization tools (familiarity with Power BI preferred)
• Exceptional problem solving, technical and data analysis skills
• Be self-driven, and show ability to deliver on ambiguous projects with incomplete or dirty data
• Ability to work in a team environment that promotes collaboration

 Preferred Qualifications/Skills

• Master or Bachelor’s degree in Statistics / Math / Computer Science / Economics / Business or Engineering or job experience
• Experience with Data Lake infrastructures (Cosmos, Hadoop)

Microsoft is an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to age, ancestry, color, family or medical care leave, gender identity or expression, genetic information, marital status, medical condition, national origin, physical or mental disability, political affiliation, protected veteran status, race, religion, sex (including pregnancy), sexual orientation, or any other characteristic protected by applicable laws, regulations and ordinances.  We also consider qualified applicants regardless of criminal histories, consistent with legal requirements. If you need assistance and/or a reasonable accommodation due to a disability during the application or the recruiting process, please send a request via the Accommodation request form.

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