Business Analytics Manager

Key Cooperative is a member-owned, rural Iowa cooperative serving agriculture producers. With locations in 13 communities and 6 counties. Key Cooperative provides Agronomy, Energy, Feed and Grain with a small-town, yet professional feel. Our employees take pride in our identity, and they're committed to the success of our owners by delivering innovation, leadership, and performance. If you're looking for a place where you can grow and be proud of what you do each day - you can find this kind of career at Key Cooperative. 

We are currently hiring aBusiness Analytics Manager to join our team in Roland, Iowa (15 NE of Ames, Iowa). In this role, you will build and support reporting, dashboards, KPIs, and analytics tools that help financial, operational, and management teams make better decisions. Work with company stakeholders, vendors, the Accounting Team, Director of Development & Technology, and CFO. This role turns business needs into reliable, secure, documented BI solutions that improve visibility, accuracy, efficiency, and user adoption. 

We offer competitive compensation along with a full benefits package including development opportunities, health, vision, and dental insurance along with two retirement plans - a pension and a 401(k). We also offer an amazing family work environment where we all share a passion for agriculture and our member-owners and customers. 

This role is for you if you have:

·       Bachelor’s degree in information systems, analytics, computer science, accounting, finance, business, agriculture, or related field; equivalent experience may be considered. Five or more years of experience in business intelligence, analytics, data engineering, financial or ERP reporting, or business systems analysis.

·        An outstanding work ethic with ability to pay attention to the details

·        Ability to always project a positive attitude to customers and employees while providing outstanding and courteous customer service.

What you will be doing:

·        Building, validating, deploying, supporting, monitoring and continuously improving dashboards, BI reports, datasets, KPIs, operating metrics, and exception reporting.

·        Translating business questions into reporting requirements, business rules, calculation logic, approved data source needs, and acceptance criteria.

·        Delivering financial, operational, profitability, customer, contract, inventory, settlement, variance, performance, and trend reporting using approved definitions.

·        Identifying reporting insights, accuracy issues, and opportunities to improve business processes, visibility, efficiency, and decision-making.

·        Documenting reporting logic, definitions, approved data sources, ownership, refresh schedules, access requirements, testing, changes, and user guidance.

·        Building and maintaining reports and dashboards securely, following company access, confidentiality, and data-use expectations.

·        Training users to access, interpret, and use BI reports, dashboards, KPIs, and findings effectively.

·        Working with company stakeholders and vendors to define, prioritize, build, test, present, and improve BI reports and dashboards.

·        Managing reporting requests and project work based on business value, risk, urgency, resources, and strategic alignment.

·        Supporting user acceptance testing for new dashboards, report changes, and system updates that affect reporting.

·        Providing concise updates on progress, blockers, decisions, findings, issue resolution, and next steps.