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2024-53495 -

Principal Business Data Analyst

Location(s): San Diego, California
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Company Overview

Intuit is the global financial technology platform that powers prosperity for the people and communities we serve. With approximately 100 million customers worldwide using products such as TurboTax, Credit Karma, QuickBooks, and Mailchimp, we believe that everyone should have the opportunity to prosper. We never stop working to find new, innovative ways to make that possible.

Job Overview

Come join the CG TurboTax Analytics team as a Principal Business Analyst where you will be responsible for transforming how we forecast and project business outcomes. You will partner closely with senior leadership, customer & business strategy, finance, and cross-functional analytics teams to identify our biggest risks & opportunities and drive decisions that help TurboTax deliver on its business growth goals. To be successful, you’ll rely on a combination of strengths including predictive modeling, business acumen / analytics, and executive-level communication. This role will provide broad exposure to the entire business where you’ll become a subject matter expert on the customer and funnel dynamics behind a top brand and $3B+ business.  

Responsibilities

  • Build in-season projections (i.e. “latest estimates) through a series of AI/ML models used to inform risks & opportunities and drive strategic decisions
  • Produce daily forecasts (i.e time series models) across key funnel metrics that contextualize daily performance results
  • Cultivate and grow partnership with finance team to provide clarity on business performance and actions that will drive growth
  • Apply data science and advanced analytics techniques to explain key business results and outcomes
  • Present insights behind key business results, including customer retention and acquisition, to senior leadership
  • Contribute to the annual business plan forecast, a key artifact used to hold teams accountable to growth targets
  • Effectively communicate at all levels of the organization, respond effectively to unexpected obstacles and reallocate resources as necessary
  • Work effectively in fast-moving, high urgency environments
  • Bring an innovative mindset, continuously pushing and challenging the status quo to improve our business and analytics capabilities in service of driving high-impact decisions
  • Own and prioritize the team’s capability roadmap, and partner directly with business partners to effectively communicate prioritization
  • Serve as a coach and mentor to more junior analysts (with opportunity to expand into people management within 1-2 years)

Qualifications

  • 8+ years of experience in an Analytical, Finance, or similar role
  • 3+ years of analytics experience in a D2C business with strong understanding of customer retention and/or funnel data
  • 2+ years of experience building business forecasts and leveraging time series models (e.g. Facebook Prophet)
  • Expertise in programming languages and stats packages (e.g. Python, R); comfortable creating re-usable data sets with high-quality data
  • Fluency in data analysis, including defining KPIs, statistical and predictive modeling concepts, descriptive statistics, customer segmentation, and funnel analysis
  • Demonstrates strong business acumen and curiosity
  • Outstanding communication skills with the ability to interact with business leaders to make business recommendations
  • Passionate about mentoring others and the advancement of the team
  • Genuine customer empathy to find solutions to improve the lives of our customers
  • MS in a quantitative field such as computer science, statistics, economics, math, or equivalent work experience + BS

Intuit provides a competitive compensation package with a strong pay for performance rewards approach. The expected base pay range for this position is Southern California $180,000-244,000. This position will be eligible for a cash bonus, equity rewards and benefits, in accordance with our applicable plans and programs (see more about our compensation and benefits at Intuit®: Careers | Benefits). Pay offered is based on factors such as job-related knowledge, skills, experience, and work location. To drive ongoing pay equity for employees, Intuit conducts regular comparisons across categories of ethnicity and gender.

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