The ideal candidate combines strong business acumen with analytical expertise and acts as the bridge between business stakeholders and the BI development team. This includes leading discovery sessions, documenting business requirements, defining project scope, identifying opportunities for process improvement, and ensuring that reporting solutions align with business goals and enterprise data governance standards.
This role requires someone who can think beyond dashboard development and operate as a trusted business advisor, ensuring that every analytics solution delivers measurable business value.Job Description
Sr Analyst – Business Operations Insights
Job Description Summary
The Sr Analyst – Business Operations Insights (BOI) serves as a strategic partner to business functions by transforming business challenges into scalable analytics and reporting solutions. This role is responsible for engaging with stakeholders across Commercial Excellence, Sales, Marketing, Services, Operations, Finance, and other business functions to understand business objectives, define requirements, and drive end-to-end solution delivery.
The ideal candidate combines strong business acumen with analytical expertise and acts as the bridge between business stakeholders and the BI development team. This includes leading discovery sessions, documenting business requirements, defining project scope, identifying opportunities for process improvement, and ensuring that reporting solutions align with business goals and enterprise data governance standards.
This role requires someone who can think beyond dashboard development and operate as a trusted business advisor, ensuring that every analytics solution delivers measurable business value.
Roles & Responsibilities
Business Partnership & Stakeholder Management
- Partner closely with business leaders and functional stakeholders to understand strategic priorities, operational challenges, and reporting needs.
- Lead business discovery workshops and requirement gathering sessions across multiple business functions.
- Challenge and refine stakeholder requests to ensure proposed solutions are scalable, sustainable, and aligned with enterprise BI best practices.
- Build trusted relationships with business stakeholders and act as the primary point of contact throughout the project lifecycle.
- Translate complex business problems into analytical use cases and reporting solutions.
Business Requirements & Solution Design
- Own the end-to-end Business Requirements Document (BRD) process from requirement gathering through stakeholder sign-off.
- Define project scope, objectives, success criteria, assumptions, risks, and dependencies.
- Collaborate with business users to prioritize initiatives based on business impact, urgency, effort, and organizational priorities.
- Perform gap analysis between existing reporting capabilities and future business requirements.
- Ensure requirements are clearly documented before development begins and remain aligned throughout project execution.
Business Operations & Analytics
- Develop a strong understanding of business operations across Commercial Excellence, Sales, Marketing, Services, Operations, Finance, and other enterprise functions.
- Analyze business processes and identify opportunities for automation, standardization, and operational improvements through analytics.
- Recommend KPI frameworks and reporting strategies that enable better business decision-making.
- Drive data-driven discussions with business leaders by interpreting trends, identifying opportunities, and presenting actionable insights.
Project Delivery & Governance
- Work closely with BI Developers, Data Engineers, Data Architects, and Business SMEs to ensure successful project delivery.
- Support project planning, backlog prioritization, effort estimation, and release planning.
- Ensure adherence to BOI governance processes, documentation standards, and quality practices.
- Coordinate UAT planning, stakeholder reviews, production sign-offs, and change management activities.
- Track project milestones, risks, dependencies, and delivery timelines.
Reporting & Business Intelligence
- Partner with the BI development team during solution design to ensure reporting requirements are translated correctly.
- Review dashboards and reports to validate alignment with business expectations.
- Recommend improvements in data storytelling, visualization, usability, and executive reporting.
- Ensure consistency in KPI definitions, business logic, and reporting standards across business functions.
Continuous Improvement
- Identify opportunities to improve reporting processes, data quality, governance, and operational efficiency.
- Promote standardized reporting frameworks and reusable analytics assets.
- Drive adoption of AI-enabled analytics, self-service BI, and modern reporting capabilities.
- Contribute to building BOI knowledge repositories, process documentation, and best practices.
Desired Characteristics & Technical Expertise
- Good experience in Business Intelligence, Business Operations, Analytics Consulting, Reporting, or Business Analysis.
- Strong understanding of business operations across Commercial Excellence, Sales, Marketing, Services, Operations, Finance, or similar business functions.
- Proven experience managing senior business stakeholders and leading requirement discovery sessions.
- Extensive experience creating and managing Business Requirements Documents (BRDs), Functional Specifications, User Stories, Process Flows, and Solution Documentation.
- Strong understanding of project lifecycle management, Agile delivery, backlog management, and stakeholder governance.
- Ability to translate business challenges into scalable analytics and reporting solutions.
- Strong analytical thinking with the ability to identify business trends, process gaps, and improvement opportunities.
- Experience working with enterprise reporting platforms such as Power BI or Tableau.
- Working knowledge of SQL and relational databases to support business analysis and validate reporting requirements.
- Experience with enterprise business applications such as Salesforce (SFDC), SAP, Oracle Fusion, Hyperion, Oracle P6, ServiceNow, or similar platforms.
- Strong understanding of data governance, KPI frameworks, data quality, and reporting standards.
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills with the ability to present complex analytical concepts to executive leadership.
- Ability to influence stakeholders and drive alignment across cross-functional teams.
Preferred Qualifications
Experience supporting one or more of the following business functions:
- Commercial Excellence
- Sales Operations
- Marketing Analytics
- Support
- Services
- Finance
- Operations Excellence
Business Acumen
- Demonstrates a deep understanding of business operations, organizational priorities, and strategic objectives.
- Understands how analytics can improve operational performance, business outcomes, and decision-making.
- Advises stakeholders on the most effective reporting, data, and process solutions rather than simply executing requested changes.
- Balances business priorities with technical feasibility, governance, scalability, and long-term sustainability.
- Acts as a trusted consultant by recommending best practices and challenging approaches that may introduce operational or data quality risks.
Leadership Attributes
- Builds credibility and trust with business stakeholders through expertise and professionalism.
- Takes ownership of projects from discovery through successful delivery.
- Demonstrates strong problem-solving and structured thinking.
- Influences decisions using data, business rationale, and analytical insights.
- Promotes collaboration across business, analytics, and technology teams.
- Maintains high standards for documentation, governance, and solution quality.
- Continuously seeks opportunities to improve business processes through analytics and automation.
- Operates with a strong sense of accountability, customer focus, and execution excellence.
Relocation Assistance Provided: No
Skills Required
- Experience in Business Intelligence, Business Operations, Analytics Consulting, Reporting, or Business Analysis
- Strong understanding of business operations across Commercial Excellence, Sales, Marketing, Services, Operations, Finance
- Proven experience managing senior business stakeholders and leading requirement discovery sessions
- Extensive experience creating and managing Business Requirements Documents (BRDs), Functional Specifications, User Stories, Process Flows, and Solution Documentation
- Strong understanding of project lifecycle management, Agile delivery, backlog management, and stakeholder governance
- Ability to translate business challenges into scalable analytics and reporting solutions
- Strong analytical thinking with ability to identify trends, process gaps, and improvement opportunities
- Experience working with enterprise reporting platforms such as Power BI or Tableau
- Working knowledge of SQL and relational databases to support business analysis and validate reporting requirements
- Experience with enterprise business applications such as Salesforce (SFDC), SAP, Oracle Fusion, Hyperion, Oracle P6, ServiceNow, or similar platforms
- Strong understanding of data governance, KPI frameworks, data quality, and reporting standards
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills and ability to present complex analytical concepts to executive leadership
- Ability to influence stakeholders and drive alignment across cross-functional teams
GE Vernova Compensation & Benefits Highlights
The following summarizes recurring compensation and benefits themes identified from responses generated by popular LLMs to common candidate questions about GE Vernova and has not been reviewed or approved by GE Vernova.
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Retirement Support — The 401(k) plan includes company matching contributions and additional company retirement contributions, with access to Fidelity resources and financial planning consultants. Feedback suggests this structure supports long-term savings beyond a basic match.
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Parental & Family Support — Paid parental leave is available with flexible, continuous or non-continuous usage, and is complemented by adoption resources and Work/Life Connections guidance. Maternity leave is described as extended relative to typical workplace norms.
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Leave & Time Off Breadth — Time-off programs include 12 paid holidays, permissive time off for many salaried roles, and dedicated personal, illness, and caregiving time for U.S. new hires. Some hourly roles start with a defined PTO bank, while other roles may offer unlimited time off.
GE Vernova Insights
What We Do
GE Vernova is a planned purpose-built company on a mission to electrify the planet while simultaneously working to decarbonize it. If we want our energy future to be different…we must be different. Our mission is embedded in our name. We retain our treasured legacy, “GE,” in our name as an enduring and hard-earned badge of quality and ingenuity. “Ver” / “verde” signal Earth’s verdant and lush ecosystems. “Nova,” from the Latin “novus,” nods to a new, innovative era of lower carbon energy that GE Vernova will help deliver. GE Vernova brings together GE’s portfolio of energy businesses including Power, Wind, Electrification and Digital businesses. With focus, GE Vernova is accelerating the path to more reliable, affordable, and sustainable energy, while helping our customers power economies and deliver the electricity that is vital to health, safety, security, and improved quality of life. Together, we have The Energy to Change the World.
Why Work With Us
Join our team, to evolve and grow, surrounded by some of the brightest minds in the industry who help you get better every day. You’ll get the chance to rewrite the rules, work on cutting-edge technology, and be part of a global team for positive change.
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