Business Intelligence Analysts

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Job Outlook:
None
Education: Bachelor's degree
Salary
High: $174,790.00
Average: $115,240.00
Hourly
Average: $55.40

What they do:

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.

Personality

A3 Your Strengths Importance

Characteristics of this Career

95% Analytical Thinking  -  Job requires analyzing information and using logic to address work-related issues and problems.
93% Attention to Detail  -  Job requires being careful about detail and thorough in completing work tasks.
85% Dependability  -  Job requires being reliable, responsible, and dependable, and fulfilling obligations.
82% Initiative  -  Job requires a willingness to take on responsibilities and challenges.
82% Integrity  -  Job requires being honest and ethical.
81% Persistence  -  Job requires persistence in the face of obstacles.
76% Cooperation  -  Job requires being pleasant with others on the job and displaying a good-natured, cooperative attitude.
74% Achievement/Effort  -  Job requires establishing and maintaining personally challenging achievement goals and exerting effort toward mastering tasks.
74% Adaptability/Flexibility  -  Job requires being open to change (positive or negative) and to considerable variety in the workplace.
73% Independence  -  Job requires developing one's own ways of doing things, guiding oneself with little or no supervision, and depending on oneself to get things done.
A3 Your Strengths Importance

Strengths

78% Investigative  -  Work involves studying and researching non-living objects, living organisms, disease or other forms of impairment, or human behavior. Investigative occupations are often associated with physical, life, medical, or social sciences, and can be found in the fields of humanities, mathematics/statistics, information technology, or health care service.
72% Enterprising  -  Work involves managing, negotiating, marketing, or selling, typically in a business setting, or leading or advising people in political and legal situations. Enterprising occupations are often associated with business initiatives, sales, marketing/advertising, finance, management/administration, professional advising, public speaking, politics, or law.
A3 Your Strengths Importance

Values of the Work Environment

78% Achievement  -  Occupations that satisfy this work value are results oriented and allow employees to use their strongest abilities, giving them a feeling of accomplishment. Corresponding needs are Ability Utilization and Achievement.
72% Working Conditions  -  Occupations that satisfy this work value offer job security and good working conditions. Corresponding needs are Activity, Compensation, Independence, Security, Variety and Working Conditions.

Aptitude

A3 Your Strengths Importance

Abilities | Cognitive, Physical, Personality

78% Written Comprehension  -  The ability to read and understand information and ideas presented in writing.
78% Written Expression  -  The ability to communicate information and ideas in writing so others will understand.
75% Inductive Reasoning  -  The ability to combine pieces of information to form general rules or conclusions (includes finding a relationship among seemingly unrelated events).
75% Oral Expression  -  The ability to communicate information and ideas in speaking so others will understand.
75% Oral Comprehension  -  The ability to listen to and understand information and ideas presented through spoken words and sentences.
72% Deductive Reasoning  -  The ability to apply general rules to specific problems to produce answers that make sense.
69% Category Flexibility  -  The ability to generate or use different sets of rules for combining or grouping things in different ways.
66% Information Ordering  -  The ability to arrange things or actions in a certain order or pattern according to a specific rule or set of rules (e.g., patterns of numbers, letters, words, pictures, mathematical operations).
66% Speech Clarity  -  The ability to speak clearly so others can understand you.

Job Details

Responsibilities
Provide technical support for software maintenance or use.
Develop models of information or communications systems.
Analyze market or customer related data.
Document technical specifications or requirements.
Update knowledge about emerging industry or technology trends.
Update computer database information.
Develop information communication procedures.
Analyze market or customer related data.
Develop information communication procedures.
Document operational procedures.
Report information to managers or other personnel.
Create databases to store electronic data.
Collect data about customer needs.
Analyze market or customer related data.
Analyze market or customer related data.
Analyze market or customer related data.
Analyze market or customer related data.
Prepare analytical reports.
A3 Your Strengths Importance

Attributes & Percentage of Time Spent

98% Electronic Mail  -  How often do you use electronic mail in this job?
91% Spend Time Sitting  -  How much does this job require sitting?
86% Structured versus Unstructured Work  -  To what extent is this job structured for the worker, rather than allowing the worker to determine tasks, priorities, and goals?
85% Telephone  -  How often do you have telephone conversations in this job?
83% Indoors, Environmentally Controlled  -  How often does this job require working indoors in environmentally controlled conditions?
82% Freedom to Make Decisions  -  How much decision making freedom, without supervision, does the job offer?
81% Importance of Being Exact or Accurate  -  How important is being very exact or highly accurate in performing this job?
77% Face-to-Face Discussions  -  How often do you have to have face-to-face discussions with individuals or teams in this job?
70% Work With Work Group or Team  -  How important is it to work with others in a group or team in this job?
70% Contact With Others  -  How much does this job require the worker to be in contact with others (face-to-face, by telephone, or otherwise) in order to perform it?
70% Time Pressure  -  How often does this job require the worker to meet strict deadlines?
A3 Your Strengths Importance

Tasks & Values

92% Analyzing Data or Information  -  Identifying the underlying principles, reasons, or facts of information by breaking down information or data into separate parts.
92% Working with Computers  -  Using computers and computer systems (including hardware and software) to program, write software, set up functions, enter data, or process information.
89% Getting Information  -  Observing, receiving, and otherwise obtaining information from all relevant sources.
87% Communicating with Supervisors, Peers, or Subordinates  -  Providing information to supervisors, co-workers, and subordinates by telephone, in written form, e-mail, or in person.
82% Interpreting the Meaning of Information for Others  -  Translating or explaining what information means and how it can be used.
81% Processing Information  -  Compiling, coding, categorizing, calculating, tabulating, auditing, or verifying information or data.
80% Establishing and Maintaining Interpersonal Relationships  -  Developing constructive and cooperative working relationships with others, and maintaining them over time.
77% Organizing, Planning, and Prioritizing Work  -  Developing specific goals and plans to prioritize, organize, and accomplish your work.
77% Updating and Using Relevant Knowledge  -  Keeping up-to-date technically and applying new knowledge to your job.
76% Making Decisions and Solving Problems  -  Analyzing information and evaluating results to choose the best solution and solve problems.
74% Documenting/Recording Information  -  Entering, transcribing, recording, storing, or maintaining information in written or electronic/magnetic form.
70% Thinking Creatively  -  Developing, designing, or creating new applications, ideas, relationships, systems, or products, including artistic contributions.
70% Identifying Objects, Actions, and Events  -  Identifying information by categorizing, estimating, recognizing differences or similarities, and detecting changes in circumstances or events.
68% Providing Consultation and Advice to Others  -  Providing guidance and expert advice to management or other groups on technical, systems-, or process-related topics.

Getting Started

Education:
76%
Bachelor's Degree
14%
Master's Degree

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