Senior Business Analytics Partner

Senior Business Analytics Partner **Senior Business Analytics Partner** Do you have a Financial Planning and Analysis background and are you keen to pivot into a Data and Analytics business partnering role? Are you keen to deliver data-driven insights to our leaders to drive performance and support strategic decision making? If so, this may be the role for you **Aon is in the business of better decisions** At Aon, we shape decisions for the better to protect and enrich the lives of people around the world. As an organization, we are united through trust as one inclusive, diverse team, and we are passionate about helping our colleagues and clients succeed. **About ACIA** Aon's Centers for Innovation and Analytics in Dublin and Singapore are at the heart of delivering Aon's Data & Analytic Services team's mission to: Accelerate the rate of innovation through digital solutions to help better respond to clients' evolving needs Provide foundational data and analytics capabilities in one place for 50,000 Aon colleagues and our global clients who use our risk and people solutions Established in 2012, there are over 150 colleagues in Singapore's Centre today including actuaries, software developers, data scientists, financial analysts and accountants. We are expanding rapidly and looking for dedicated individuals who can leverage emerging technologies and collaborate across Aon's solution lines to help clients and colleagues make better, data-driven decisions today and tomorrow. **What the day will look like** The Business Analytics Partner role in the team acts as an analytics translator between our business leaders and technical D&A expertise, leveraging on data-driven insights to help our business leaders make more informed decisions around driving performance improvements and business process optimization across Aon. This role extends beyond analytics requires strategic collaboration with teams such as sales, product, technology, finance, and more. Conduct in-depth interviews with senior partners to capture insights, understand business needs and challenges. Addressing these issues with the help of our core offerings. **Responsibilities**: - Partner with countries on delivery of analytical insights and embedment of the team's suite of products - Management of initiatives to ensure delivery within timelines - Support in conceptualizing solutions, rolling out and testing products - Work with local, regional and global teams to implement recommendations towards a positive and balanced outcomes - Collect end-user requests and translate them into business requirements for our development group - Cultivate and sustain positive relationships with diverse teams to achieve collective goals and drive organizational success - Manage and influence stakeholders' expectations and decisions, and drive effective change management - Work with large data sets, review and analyse to validate results effectively and provide insightful analyses. - Articulate sophisticated concepts clearly to support senior management in data-driven decision-making **Skills and experience that will lead to success** - Degree or equivalent experience in Business, Finance (Financial Planning and Analysis) with a minimum 4-6 years of working experience in related areas - Seeks to grow into a business analytics consultant; this is not under a career track of a data scientist - Have experience in managing senior stakeholders and/or business partnering - Ability to manage ambiguity such as - Analyzing complex and unclear situations to develop clear and actionable plans or decision making - Breaking down ambiguous problems into manageable components and identifying potential solutions - Comfortable making decisions with partial information and adjusting strategies as more data is obtained - Demonstrate a growth mindset and willingness to learn proprietary conceptual models (such as cost allocation / activity-base costing) - Team player, analytical, problem-solving, critical and innovative thinking skills - High-level written and verbal communication and presentations skills - Able to multi-task, self-disciplined, organized, diligent, with good prioritization skills **Nice to have**: - Proficiency in SQL/VBA **How we support our colleagues** In addition to our comprehensive benefits package, we encourage a diverse workforce. Plus, our agile, inclusive environment allows you to manage your wellbeing and work/life balance, ensuring you can be your best self at Aon. Furthermore, all colleagues enjoy two "Global Wellbeing Days" each year, encouraging you to take time to focus on yourself. We offer a variety of working style solutions, but we also recognise that flexibility goes beyond just the place of work... and we are all for it. We call this Smart Working Our continuous learning culture inspires and equips you to learn, share and grow, helping you achieve your fullest potential. As a result, at Aon, you are more connected, more relevan