Business Analyst II

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Job Summary:

Disney Entertainment & ESPN Product & Technology People & Culture team is seeking a Business Analyst II to join the People & Culture and Product Engineering Operations teams in India to help scale new technology hub. These teams partners closely across Product & Technology to logistically manage and orchestrate essential business workflows and operations processes.

As a Business Analyst II, you will play a key role in the execution, optimization, and standardization of the organization’s workforce expansion and resource allocation models. You will be involved in the management, integrity, analysis, and documentation of data that support our internal operations, process workflows, the resourcing necessary to deliver our projects, and executive reporting for the businesses we support.

The ideal candidate has proven problem-solving skills, a sense of urgency, and experience with technical programs, data analytics and business operations. You will be engaging and developing partnerships across teams within the company, including HR, Finance, Engineering and cross leadership stakeholders. This role offers the unique opportunity to work on both tactical actions that drive our near-term business operations, and initiatives that will define our future.

Responsibilities:

• Build a deep understanding of workforce model and resourcing data related to our internal teams and functional partners

• Support the coordination of fast-paced projects that standardize and optimize HR and business processes across the organization

• Support internal workflows, such as candidate recruitment data, workforce management, and resource planning

• Work with various data systems and deliver ad-hoc analysis and reports to support business needs, investigate, triage and resolve metrics-based issues

• Document workflows related to key processes, data collection and maintenance, including tracking major decisions and changes

• Work with technology teams to support documentation and implementations of database designs

• Build strategic decision-making frameworks and write scripts that help us automate and augment

• Skilled in distilling insights from data and synthesizing and crafting compelling messaging for executive audiences

Basic Qualifications:

• 3+ years of experience working with business and operational data to support analysis, reporting, and decision-making.

• Hands-on experience querying, manipulating, and interpreting data using tools such as SQL, Python, or R, and translating findings into dashboards, reports, and insights using platforms like Tableau, Looker, Airtable, and Smartsheet.

• Understanding of relational database design and proficiency

• Strong math and analytical skills

• Successful teamwork and time management skills

• You bring a strong attention to detail, with an ability to take a step back and understand the bigger picture

• A demonstrated ability to work with engineering delivery teams to discuss technical concepts

• Experience with Airtable, Excel, and/or Smartsheet.

Required Education

Bachelor’s degree in a technical or business-related field such as Business, Finance/Economics, Informatics, Data Science, Statistics, or Computer Science.