Senior Insights Analyst

Scientific Games:

Scientific Games is the global leader in lottery games, sports betting and technology, and the partner of choice for government lotteries. From cutting-edge backend systems to exciting entertainment experiences and trailblazing retail and digital solutions, we elevate play every day. We push game designs to the next level and are pioneers in data analytics and iLottery. Built on a foundation of trusted partnerships, Scientific Games combines relentless innovation, legendary performance, and unwavering security to responsibly propel the global lottery industry ever forward.

Position Summary

The Sr. Insights Analyst will provide descriptive analytic expertise for the Lottery Insights group. This role will be responsible for a number of ad-hoc and regularly occurring deliverables. The Sr. Insights Analyst will use data, tools, and analytic techniques to evaluate industry performance in a number of areas. This includes analysis of retail sales, products, consumers, operations and logistics and primary customer research. An in-depth knowledge of Microsoft Excel, SQL, and Tableau is required. Familiarity with basic statistics (e.g. hypothesis testing, regression) is a plus. The Sr. Insights Analyst should be naturally curious and excited about analysis and a demonstrated data storyteller. We are looking for a problem solver that can think critically and provide data driven Insights using visualization best practices as needed to our many stakeholders.

Key Responsibilities:

• Proactively generate insights based on regular evaluations of the lottery marketplace
• Independently maintain and refine key analytic products related to retail facing products (B2B) that are substantially relied upon internally
• Answer complex ad-hoc questions that arise from internal/external stakeholders
• Work to develop new KPI’s that can be used by the organization and our customers
• Provide regular reporting of industry trends and happenings to key stakeholders
• Use Business Intelligence tools such as Tableau and SQL to create and distribute content for our many stakeholders
• Support the onsite team with validation and operations reporting as well as development/realization of the Analytics roadmap.

Qualifications

Education

Bachelors degree in related field.

Required Skills and Experience:

• Critical thinker that can provide valuable business insights based on the analysis of data
• Strong Tableau background is highly desirable with recent professional use experience evident
• Willingness to own detailed data validation and routine tasks associated with data projects
• Highly organized and capable of independently managing complex analytic projects and products
• Strong communicator, with the ability to express findings to a variety of audiences in both written and oral forms using a combination of Tableau, Microsoft Excel, and Microsoft PowerPoint.
• Deep knowledge of Microsoft Excel is required - This includes the use of pivot tables, vlookup or index/match, “ifs” statements, conditional formatting, array formulas, etc.
• Intermediate skill using SQL to extract, transform, and aggregate data is required.
• Must have a mentality that aligns with continuous learning, improvement, and personal growth
• Must be a self-starter who can independently research, identify appropriate methods, and solve problems
• Occasional travel is required for this role (<10%)
• Must have attained at least a bachelor’s degree from an accredited university
• 3 Years of previous experience in a BI Analytics role highly desired.

Physical Requirements

The physical demands described here are representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions. While performing the duties of this job, the employee is regularly required to sit, stand, walk, bend, use hands, operate a computer, and have specific vision abilities to include close and distance vision, and ability to adjust focus working with computer and business equipment.

Work Conditions

Scientific Games Corporation and its affiliates (collectively, “SG”) are engaged in highly regulated gaming and lottery businesses. As a result, certain SG employees may, among other things, be required to obtain a gaming or other license(s), undergo background investigations or security checks, or meet certain standards dictated by law, regulation or contracts. In order to ensure SG complies with its regulatory and contractual commitments, as a condition to hiring and continuing to employ its employees, SG requires all of its employees to meet those requirements that are necessary to fulfill their individual roles. As a prerequisite to employment with SG (to the extent permitted by law), you shall be asked to consent to SG conducting a due diligence/background investigation on you.

This job description should not be interpreted as all-inclusive; it is intended to identify major responsibilities and requirements of the job. The employee in this position may be requested to perform other job-related tasks and responsibilities than those stated above.