Business Intelligence Analysts

Produce financial and market intelligence by querying data repositories and generating periodic reports. Devise methods for identifying data patterns and trends in available information sources.

On the job, you would:

• Generate standard or custom reports summarizing business, financial, or economic data for review by executives, managers, clients, and other stakeholders.
• Synthesize current business intelligence or trend data to support recommendations for action.
• Maintain library of model documents, templates, or other reusable knowledge assets.

Education

• bachelor's degree
• master's degree

Arts and Humanities

• English language

Math and Science

• arithmetic, algebra, geometry, calculus, or statistics

Business

• management

Engineering and Technology

• computers and electronics

Basic Skills

• reading work related information
• thinking about the pros and cons of different ways to solve a problem

Problem Solving

• noticing a problem and figuring out the best way to solve it

People and Technology Systems

• thinking about the pros and cons of different options and picking the best one
• figuring out how a system should work and how changes in the future will affect it

Conventional

People interested in this work like activities that include data, detail, and regular routines.

• Analytical Thinking
• Attention to Detail
• Dependability
• Initiative
• Integrity
• Persistence

Verbal

• communicate by writing
• read and understand what is written

Ideas and Logic

• make general rules or come up with answers from lots of detailed information
• use rules to solve problems

Math

• choose the right type of math to solve a problem
• add, subtract, multiply, or divide