Data Analyst
Marathon Petroleum Corporation
Key Responsibilities
- Collaborates with business partners to deliver sustainable solutions for analytics and process improvements.
- Understands business processes and related data sources, and models data for reuse across analyst groups.
- Supports analytics data solutions; works with system support teams to correct and/or enhance data.
- Acquires, cleans, and preprocesses raw data from various sources to ensure accuracy and reliability; maintains knowledge of key systems and queries those systems for data.
- Conducts in-depth analysis of large datasets to extract meaningful insights and trends.
- Develops and implements analytical models to forecast future trends and outcomes.
- Performs statistical analysis to identify patterns and correlations in the data.
- Creates visually compelling and easy-to-understand dashboards and reports.
- Communicates findings to stakeholders through charts, graphs, and presentations.
- Ensures integrity and quality of data through regular audits and validation processes.
- Works closely with cross-functional teams to understand data requirements and deliver insights.
- Drives continuous improvement in business processes and data analytics best practices.
- Establishes and supports data governance to ensure data is fit for optimum use by the organization.
- Partners and leads initiatives to build sustainable data pipelines, automations, and advanced analytics solutions.
Requirements & Tech Stack
- Bachelor’s Degree required, with a preference in Business, Engineering, Computer Science, Information Systems, Mathematics, or related.
- Exposure to business intelligence self-service analytics software tools such as Power BI or Tableau.
- Exposure to data transformation tools such as SQL, ADF, Synapse, Power Query, M, Databricks, or others.
- Experience with manipulating and analyzing complex, high-volume, high-dimensional data from varying sources.
- Ability to communicate complex quantitative analysis in a clear, precise, and actionable manner.
Qualifications
- Strong communication and time management skills.
- Strong passion for answering difficult questions with data.
- Experience solving analytical problems using quantitative approaches to generate positive business results.
- Experience with data analysis efforts: identifying data sources, querying data, performing exploratory data analysis/modeling, presenting historical insights/business justification, and affecting data-driven business changes.
- Proven ability to think critically and solve problems, given incomplete information and/or ambiguous requirements.
- A flexible analytic approach that provides results at varying levels of precision.
Skills
- Business Partnerships
- Communication
- Critical Thinking
- Data Analysis
- Data Operations
- Data Reporting
- Adaptability
- Digital Transformation
- Influencing Others
- Metrics Management
- Work Management
Travel: Up to 10%
Location: Findlay, Ohio