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Senior Strategy Analyst

ADP

ADP is hiring a Senior Strategy Analyst. In this position you will be an integral member of the team and add value from day 1. They will report directly to the Vice President of Strategy and work on projects that have high visibility and are paramount to the business’s success.

At ADP we are driven by your success. We engage your unique talents and perspectives. We welcome your ideas on how to do things differently and better. In your efforts to achieve, learn and grow, we support you all the way. If success motivates you, you belong at ADP.

We strive for every interaction to be driven by our CORE values: Insightful Expertise, Integrity is Everything, Service Excellence, Inspiring Innovation, Each Person Counts, Results-Driven, & Social Responsibility.

RESPONSIBILITIES:

• Structure complex business problems and analyze to uncover recommendations
• Interact with other teams across the organizations to collaboratively arrive to practical solutions that can be implemented
• Engage with Senior Leadership Team to present your analyses and recommendations
• Be a partner in the execution process to help drive desired strategic results
• Support the VP of Strategy to drive the business unit strategic planning process
• Develop and maintain strong working knowledge of the HCM industry, major trends, and competitors

QUALIFICATIONS REQUIRED:

• BA/BS degree or graduate from a top tier school with majors in Business, Economics, Finance, or Mathematics/Statistics.
• Have demonstrated outstanding academic achievements including a strong GPA (preferably higher than 3.5)

PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS: Preference will be given to candidates who have the following:

• Relevant work experience of 1 to 2 years (Consulting, Banking or Corporate Strategy) will be preferred
• Expert knowledge of Microsoft Office applications (especially PowerPoint and Excel).
• Be very comfortable working with numbers and large volumes of data. Prior experience with excel modelling would be preferable
• Find problem solving exhilarating and have an aptitude for analytics.
• Demonstrated outstanding academic achievement and an aptitude for analytics.
• Be a team player and possess strong interpersonal skills including excellent communication skills.

Strategy Analyst

Ross Stores

GENERAL PURPOSE:

The Strategy Analyst will play a key role in how we continue to support the Ross corporate strategy. The Strategy Analyst will be a part of a distinctive strategy team. The Strategy Analyst should expect to interact with key operators as well as other strategy team members in New York and Dublin offices, and support the presentation of findings to the top executives of the company.

ESSENTIAL FUNCTIONS:

Perform practical, action oriented, & comprehensive data analysis in support of Strategic business initiatives

• Conduct analysis – including pulling data, building models and analyzing financial, operational or statistical data – to support key strategic priorities for the Company (working in conjunction with Strategy team members and other senior management)
• Develop compelling materials to communicate results of analysis and key insights internally and externally (e.g. Board meetings, Buyer meetings, Operating Committee meetings, Executive Strategy Meetings etc.)

Analyze business problems and problem solve solutions with strategy team and key stakeholders

• Learn and understand the off-price business and diagnose key business problems. Create hypotheses on how to solve critical business ideas and prove them with rigorous data analytics.
• Monitor ongoing and ad hoc internal and external events
• Provide ad hoc business and competitive intelligence and insights for key senior executives: e.g. new store performance, competitive information, macro-economic conditions, gas prices, impact of competitive mergers, acquisitions and bankruptcies.

Support key cross-functional initiatives

• Coordinate analysis for select cross-functional initiatives (e.g. inventory management, roll-out strategy for new business opportunities). This requires working closely with store operations, DCs and other areas of the business

COMPETENCIES:

• Analysis and Judgment
• Drive and goal-focused
• Foundational Business Acumen
• Influence
• Collaboration
• Teamwork
• Communication
• Technical/Functional competence

QUALIFICATIONS AND SPECIAL SKILLS REQUIRED:

• College degree, preferably with an analytical or business background
• 3 – 5 years post college experience preferred
• Outstanding analytical ability: Must have a data driven approach to solving problems. Requires very strong quantitative skills and a good sense of how to dissect problems.
• Must be able to set priorities while conducting analysis to quickly arrive at an actionable solution.
• Detail-oriented approach: Must have very close attention to details and the drive to get things right.
• Teamwork/Communication: Needs to be able to build effective working relationships within and outside the Strategy team. Must be able to listen, understand, and communicate with others throughout the company at various levels.
• Strong fundamental IT skills – must be Excel and PowerPoint proficient, strong knowledge of SPSS or other statistical databases is preferred.
• Advanced financial and statistical modeling skills
• Clear understanding of basic financial, statistical and economic concepts

Strategy Analyst

EY United States

The new Global Strategy Group (GSG) led by the Global Vice-Chair of Strategy will play a critical role in helping EY achieve its ambition. The GSG is driven by the following principles:

• Senior leadership driven: Serve the senior leadership agenda, strongly connected to Global, SL, Area Executive
• Forward looking: Be the stewards of the medium to longer-term horizon, clarifying key opportunities and risks
• Objective and insightful: Take an objective and market-based view of the business to drive fact-based decisions
• Client Centric: Bring an external customer lens into everything we do
• Execution focused: Ensure execution plans are robust and that there is an appropriate level of alignment across key parts of EY
• Value oriented: Intense focus on delivering ECS at an ‘appropriate’ cost

The Global Strategy Team will primarily consist of four inter-related functions:

1. Strategic intelligence: analyzing macro trends; market definition, size, and growth; and competitive positioning that affect EY’s market opportunity across all of its different areas of business
2. Portfolio management and capital allocation: developing ongoing processes and supporting business analytics that monitor EY’s business portfolio, identify any adjustments that need to be made, and help to prioritize areas of strategic investment (or divestment) for the firm

3. Strategy execution: assisting leadership in defining a shared set of execution priorities globally and within each of the Areas and Service Lines; working with business leaders across the firm to assess and support high-quality execution of those priorities; and driving strategic initiatives selected by the GE that require special attention or cross-functional collaboration
4. Corporate development: developing an acquisition strategy in line with the firm’s strategic priorities; ensuring capital allocation is consistent with those priorities; and driving robust deal execution and post-acquisition reviews

This role will support activities across all strategy pillars as needed – Strategic Intelligence, Strategy Execution and Portfolio Management / Capital Allocation with focus on driving and implementing key priorities of the Global Strategy.

Essential Functions of the Job:

The Global Strategy Analyst will:

• Work with all OSE team members, to define and build the organizational and analytical processes that will drive the strategy function for EY
• Execute on pillar workplans and deliver on key analyses and projects, including multiple types of market analysis, competitive analysis, internal financial analysis, financial modeling, and scenario planning
• Maintain and update strategic scorecard and other tools to assess and drive high-quality execution of our global strategy
• Perform certain analyses independently, as needed

Analytical/Decision Making Responsibilities:

• Strong analytical skills, including data analysis and problem solving
• Supports the development of a point of view on the current state of the practice by overseeing and conducting research, interviews and fact-based quantitative analysis
• Supports identification of key market dynamics that will impact the business over the agreed upon planning horizon
• Determine appropriate decision making processes to answer critical questions

Supervision Responsibilities:

The post holder will be provided general supervision and guidance. While no official supervision responsibilities in this role, will be expected to coach and mentor other team members as needed

Knowledge and Skills Requirements:

• Awareness of key economic and capital markets issues as well as other business trends that could impact the firm
• General understanding of the key business and financial drivers that determine the firm’s success
• Project management skills and experience
• Understanding of the EY Organization – Americas and globally.
• Strong written and oral communication skills (including presentations) as well as listening and interpretation skills
• Advanced aptitude in Microsoft Word, Excel, and PowerPoint
• Ability to work well in a team environment
• High degree of professionalism and integrity
• High energy and results oriented

Other Requirements:

• Flexibility is needed in order to connect and work with others given that we are a distributed business and often work across time zones and across national borders and language lines.
• Some overtime may be required to meet deadlines
• Minimal travel may be required.

Job Requirements:

Education:

• University/Bachelor’s degree in a related subject – e.g. Finance, Economics, etc.
• Advanced degree preferred, not required.

Experience:

• Experience in a professional services firm with strategy consulting experience preferred.
• Exposure to a wide range of data and analytical concepts and methodologies, including:Market sizingCompetitive analysisCustomer needs analysis / primary researchFinancial modeling and valuationPortfolio review (e.g. where to invest, where to divest)Forecasting / econometrics

Business Strategy Analyst

WeWork Global Technology 

About WeWork

WeWork is the platform for creators, providing hundreds of thousands of members around the world with space, community, and services that enable them to do what they love and create their life’s work. Our mission is to create a world where people work to make a life, not just a living, and our own team members are central to that goal.

WeWork is creating a layer of technology to power our vision of “space as a service”. From identifying and designing a new location, to bringing that space to market in an elastic, easy-to-consume way, to seamlessly operating these spaces to delight our members, we are building state-of-the-art systems to automate, optimize, and enhance the experience. The data we are collecting is being used to dynamically optimize utilization, pricing, even layout and form factor. This technology advantage has allowed WeWork to scale to 200+ buildings in 20+ countries and will be our competitive advantage as the company continues to grow.

About Revenue Optimization team

The mission of the Revenue Optimization team is focused on building the foundations for pricing/yield management and inventory optimizations through state-of-the-art analytics and predictive modeling. The group acts as an in-house consulting team analyzing data to define strategies and execute on initiatives that will maximize the revenue streams for WeWork.

Reporting into the Senior Director of Global Pricing Strategy, this role will apply deep analytical expertise and problem-solving skills to develop insights and recommendations around pricing and inventory optimization. This includes gathering and analyzing data, formulating and testing hypotheses, communicating insights and recommendations.

The ideal person for this role is highly analytical, thinks about problems in structured ways, passionate about capturing information to make recommendations for the business, and excellent at delivering actionable insights.

Key focus areas

Scope, structure and execute analyses & models to support the various revenue optimization initiatives and shape our next generation of revenue management strategy (e.g., segmentation, acquisition costs)
Effectively communicate findings and provide key insights and recommendations to our Revenue Optimization Leadership team
Develop and automate revenue performance reports and dashboards by assembling various data sources and summarizing key insights

Requirements

BA/BS from a leading undergraduate institution with a major in a quantitative field (e.g., Engineering, Finance)
4+ years of experience doing quantitative data analysis
Very strong analytical skills in data extraction, big data analytics / modeling and visualization: Expert in Excel / Tableau required; SQL, Python, and R are a plus
Solid understanding of statistical analysis (e.g., hypothesis testing, predictive models)
Strong problem solving-skills – ability to break a problem into components and understand how to test each component
Data first philosophy but can also make decisions in ambiguous situations
Ability to initiate and drive projects to completion with minimal guidance
Excellent written and verbal communication skills; Ability to create meaningful presentation that tell a story, as well as collaborate with data and software engineers
Strong work ethic, intellectual curiosity and attention to detail