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Business Intelligence Analysts

  • Bright Outlook
  • Rapid Growth

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.

What you’d do

  • Generate standard or custom reports summarizing business, financial, or economic data for review by executives, managers, clients, and other stakeholders.
  • Maintain or update business intelligence tools, databases, dashboards, systems, or methods.
  • Manage timely flow of business intelligence information to users.
  • Provide technical support for existing reports, dashboards, or other tools.
  • Identify and analyze industry or geographic trends with business strategy implications.
  • Document specifications for business intelligence or information technology reports, dashboards, or other outputs.
  • Create business intelligence tools or systems, including design of related databases, spreadsheets, or outputs.
  • Collect business intelligence data from available industry reports, public information, field reports, or purchased sources.

Skills that matter

  • Reading Comprehension
  • Active Learning
  • Active Listening
  • Critical Thinking
  • Speaking
  • Writing

How to get there

Considerable preparation: most need a four-year bachelor's degree

Also called

  • Business Intelligence Analyst (BI Analyst)
  • Competitive Intelligence Analyst
  • Intelligence Analyst
  • Market Intelligence Consultant
  • Business Analyst
  • Business Intelligence Consultant (BI Consultant)

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