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Business Analyst
Summary
Title:Business Analyst
ID:1034
Department:Financial Reporting
Description

High-Impact Role

Excellence matters to us. We work tirelessly to delight our clients, build outstanding engagement procedures, deliver head-turning thought leadership in our publishing and presenting, and make our own employees feel appreciated and noticed. As our client service professionals are constantly two feet in taking care of clients, we need a proactive professional to serve a team of internal clients by supporting key internal initiatives.

This is an entry level role in our internal Business Process Excellence (BPE) function. The career track may expand into specializations in recruiting, marketing, project management, or event planning. The role has been developed for a recent graduate with an exemplary academic record and interest in gaining quick exposure to a variety of business processes.

The BPE function at Equity Methods serves four primary internal clients: hiring managers leading our recruiting and associate interviewing, business development, marketing, and practice leaders on various tasks. The successful candidate will be proactive, organized, comfortable working with different personalities, and able to execute in a fast-paced, judgment-rich environment. We are a culture that values high attention to detail, a bias toward action over talking, strong analytical reasoning, and exceptional judgment.

About Equity Methods

Equity Methods is a finance, accounting, and human capital consulting firm that embraces the synergistic role of technology and expertise in creating client impact. We deliver impact-rich services across three core practice groups: financial reporting, valuation services, and HR advisory.


With over 60 professionals and experience serving hundreds of publicly traded clients (including 35 Fortune 100 companies), Equity Methods seeks to combine the best of a large professional services firm with the best of an entrepreneurial, technology-enabled company. We work hard in the quest to have high impact and deliver exemplary client service that supports our client retention and overall growth story. We have consistently been rated a Top Company to Work for in Arizona.

Roles and Responsibilities

This role will change and evolve over time. Areas of focus will include:

 

  1. Interview Scheduling
  • Works with hiring managers to coordinate interviews and ensure recruits in the interview process have a white-glove experience
  • Competencies and expectations:
    • Reliability and speed: candidates are not lost in the shuffle despite a high volume of cases
    • Friendly and collaborative partnering with hiring managers, especially during their peak periods
    • Stress management when facing tough deadlines and competing priorities

 

  1. Conference Logistics Execution
  • Works with business development and marketing teams, as well as outside vendors, to ensure booth and marketing materials are properly shipped to conferences
  • Competencies and expectations:
    • Detail orientation and carefulness—no surprises at the conference
    • Proactive advanced planning so there are not avoidable scrambles in the weeks leading up to a conference
    • Over-communication to key stakeholders so they are always in the loop

 

  1. Client Dinner Events
  • Works with and accepts direction from the consulting and marketing teams to coordinate and track logistics surrounding client dinner events
  • Competencies and expectations:
    • Excellent polish when interacting with attendees before and after the event
    • Nails the logistics so that attendees know exactly where to be and when and there are no surprises
    • Documents thoroughly and executes according to the process

 

  1. Team Support
  • Works with practice leaders on small or large tasks that improve the quality of the EM associate experience
  • Competencies and expectations:
    • Attention to detail
    • Service-oriented attitude

 

  1. Initiative and Project Management
  • Works with and accepts direction from the CEO, as well as the consulting, operations, and marketing teams
  • Competencies and expectations:
    • Extreme flexibility
    • Ability to operate under minimal direction without getting stressed
    • Organization and time management

 

Broad Competencies Required

Summary: We need someone smart, collegial, gracious, wise, tech-savvy, and systems- and learning-oriented

  • Quick with numbers and spreadsheets, able to interpret maps and directions, and savvy with software tools
  • Able to communicate succinctly when necessary (the position serves busy executives) and navigate ambiguity with gusto
  • Writes logical, grammatically correct instructions, directions, correspondence, etc.
  • Collaborates effectively with diverse personalities and working styles
  • Strong organizational skills, time management, and attention to detail
  • Professional, discreet, able to handle sensitive situations with confidentiality and tact
  • Has sound judgment without being judgmental toward busy colleagues who may be sending one-line emails or falling behind and needing help keeping things straight
  • Self-motivated learner who seeks out relevant information, reads instructions carefully, and is comfortable thinking processes through independently
  • Willing and able to adhere to business processes (e.g., saving files with appropriate names in appropriate locations on the network); notices when a process has broken down and simplifies or fixes it
  • Requests input and feedback on a regular basis; learns from prior experiences and incorporates learning into day-to-day activities
  • Executes well with limited guidance and direction; figures stuff out; possess a strong reputation for just “getting it”
  • Handles stress well and does not cave in ambiguous situations
  • Bachelor’s or higher degree in any field, but otherwise qualified candidates with alternative credentials will be considered; very high GPA expected

 

Equity Methods Careers

http://www.equitymethods.com/about-us/careers/

 

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