Job Title: Business Analyst
Position: Full Time
Location: Houston, TX
Job Summary:
We are seeking a highly motivated and enthusiastic Business Analyst to join our team. As a Business Analyst, you will play a crucial role in analyzing and understanding our organization’s business processes, identifying areas for improvement, and proposing innovative solutions to drive growth and efficiency.
Description of duties and responsibilities:
· Analyze the monthly Profit & Loss(P&L) of the business and conduct meetings with the leadership team to communicate the overall financial results.
· Maintain the Key Performance Indicator (KPI) dashboard, review quarterly trends, and propose actions to improve business performance.
· Analyze revenues and costs trends by geographic regions, product families, and recommend ideas to drive growth in price, volume, and profit margins.
· Compare actual sales performance with the plan, identify gaps, and suggest ideas to catch up with the plan as needed.
· Review quarterly trends in costs, including raw material costs, fixed and variable production costs, SG&A costs, and logistics costs, and recommend opportunities for optimization.
· Collaborate closely with the supply chain, product management, and manufacturing teams to analyze production volumes and inventories, and recommend ideas to optimize production and inventory turns.
· Prepare a quarterly business financial performance report with key takeaways and present it to senior management.
· Drive the annual financial planning process by coordinating across sales, marketing, product management, supply chain, and manufacturing teams to devise next year’s financial plan.
· Monitor competitive price dynamics in the global markets and recommend opportunities to capitalize on market dynamics for top and bottom-line growth.
· Assist in ad-hoc projects related to new market entry analysis, pricing analysis, go-to-market strategies, and CAPEX projects, among others.
Education and Experience Requirements:
· Bachelor’s degree in business administration, chemical engineering, or a related field.
· Fluency in Korean is mandatory
· 0-3 years experience required
· Strong analytical and problem-solving skills, with the ability to think critically and strategically.
· Excellent communication and interpersonal skills, with the ability to effectively collaborate with stakeholders at all levels.
· Familiarity with business analysis tools and techniques is a plus.
· Knowledge of project management methodologies and tools is a plus.
· Strong attention to detail and the ability to prioritize and manage multiple tasks simultaneously.
· Ability to adapt to changing priorities and work well under pressure.
· Must be eligible to work in the US legally without visa sponsorship.
Our company values and Philosophies:
Change: SK is in pursuit of radical changes that will reconstruct the frames of its business models, organizations, and culture. We aim for changes that will be embraced by all of our employees and management. We dream of changes that will move us toward a promising future. SK will strive to continuously create and spread greater happiness in society through ideas and actions that befit the new era.
Challenge: SK is achieving growth and progress through innovations in its business model and organizational culture, enhancing its competitiveness in the areas of: Energy & Chemicals; Information, Telecommunication & Semiconductor; and Marketing & Service. In addition, we create a wider range of value through globalization, based on our innovating spirit and the development of new growth engines.
Happiness: SK promises a better tomorrow. By taking “happiness” as a value to pursue in our corporate management, we have carried out a broad array of social contribution activities. This includes establishing social enterprises and activating a social enterprise ecosystem. Going forward, we will continue to create and spread happiness in our society with fresh and creative ideas and initiatives.
Please send your resume to m.sumners@sk.com with Subject Line (SKGCA) Business Analyst Resume – Name