Data Business Analyst Intern

Company Description

Headquartered in Southern California, Skechers has spent 30 years helping men, women and kids everywhere look and feel good. Developing comfort technologies is at the foundation of all that we do—delivering stylish, innovative, and quality products at a reasonable price. From our diverse footwear offering to a growing range of apparel and accessories, Skechers is a complete lifestyle brand.

With international business representing over half of our total sales, we have product available in more than 180 countries and significant opportunities for continued expansion worldwide. We sell our collections direct to consumers through more than 4,450 Skechers stores around the globe and Skechers e-commerce sites, as well as through a network of third-party partners.

A MULTI-BILLION-DOLLAR GLOBAL LEADER IN THE FOOTWEAR INDUSTRY.

As a Data Business Analyst Intern for Data & Analytics team, you will have the opportunity to contribute to analytics solutions across multiple teams and support key data-driven initiatives at Skechers. The intern will help build, test and document new or improved data products, learn and maintain best practices for change management and collaborate with business leads, data stewards and power users to creatively solve for real-life business problems utilizing large-scale data.

Essential Job Results-

Intern will get exposure to a wide variety of work assignments which may include one or more of the following:

• Collect, analyze, and prepare sources to perform target data mapping.
• Participate in Scrum ceremonies, including stand-ups, sprint planning, retrospectives, demos, grooming, and release planning.
• Testing and analysis of results to ensure the solution meets the needs of the business community.
• Create process models, specifications, documents, wireframes, and charts and gain experience in translating this information into actionable tasks working closely with subject matter experts on product design.
• Work in partnership with experienced members of the team and stakeholders on the business and technical side to gather requirements for data products.
• Create training documentation and train end users once new development work or enhancements are complete.
• Deliver updates and presentations with wide variety of stakeholders and learn to share insights including roadmaps.

Qualifications

JOB REQUIREMENTS-

• Pursuing bachelor’s degree Computer Science, Data Science, Business, Analytics or related field.
• Great interpersonal skills.
• Strong organizational skills with attention to detail, and ability to prioritize.
• Passionate about learning new skills and willingness to take initiative, be creative, curious, and collaborative.
• Good communication skills - written, verbal.
• High degree of initiative, drive, confidence, and resilience
• Skills in Microsoft Office Software (MS Excel, MS Access, MS PowerPoint, etc.)

Bonus Skills-

• Background with business intelligence tools such as MicroStrategy or Tableau, reporting, and data transformation using tools like SQL and leveraging database design.
• Forward-thinking analytical capability, excellent problem-solving skills
• Ability to be a cross-functional team player with a track record of building positive relationships with peers and others within a company.
• Demonstrated ability to independently conduct in-depth data analysis.
• Knowledge of software development lifecycle (including understanding business processes, gathering user requirements, design, development, testing, deployment, and training)
• Experience working in an Agile/SCRUM environment.
• Knowledge of project management and change management
• Familiarity with relational data modeling and SQL for data manipulation and tuning for optimal performance.

Additional Information

To perform this job successfully, an individual must be able to perform each essential duty satisfactorily. The skills, abilities and physical demands described are representative of those duties that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodation may be made to enable individuals with disabilities, who are otherwise qualified for the job position, to perform the essential functions.

All your information will be kept confidential according to EEO guidelines.

Pay range for this position is $25 / hour.