Business Intelligence Analysts
Produce financial and market intelligence by querying data repositories and generating periodic reports. Devise methods for identifying data patterns and trends in available information sources.
What education do people in this job actually have?
O*NET incumbent survey (2024)How EWU courses prepare you for this work (7 of 17 O*NET tasks have course evidence)
- Summarize the professional report in an oral presentation
- Write a professional report adhering to scholarly standards
- Write a professional report adhering to scholarly standards
- Summarize the professional report in an oral presentation
- Write a professional report adhering to scholarly standards
- Summarize the professional report in an oral presentation
- Understand the foundation of AI
- Devise a hypothetical research project for an AI topic of your choice
Write a professional report adhering to scholarly standards
Independently research mathematical concepts
Recent regional postings for this occupation
View all 1289 postings from the last year →5 most recent CareerOneStop listings for this occupation. "Live" in Quick Facts counts only postings the scraper re-confirmed in the last 7 days; older real postings still appear here until they age out.
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Business Intelligence & Sales Enablement Lead2026-06-04Humana · Olympia, WA12 requirements 14 responsibilities5+ years in Sales Enablement, Sales Operations, Revenue operations and/or Go-To-Market functions.
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Associate, Marketing Business Intelligence2026-06-04Humana · Olympia, WA6 requirements 29 nice-to-have2+ years of experience with Power BI and familiarity with DAX for creating calculated columns, measures, and custom logic within Power BI reports
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Healthcare Data Analyst IV2026-06-04Premera Blue Cross · Mountlake Terrace, WA
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Finance Director - Data Analytics & AI Transformation2026-06-05Microsoft Corporation · Redmond, WA2 requirements 6 responsibilities 8 nice-to-have1+ year(s) experience managing direct reports.
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Business Intelligence Engineer II, SCOT - Long Term Planning and Forecasting2026-06-05Amazon · Bellevue, WA9 requirements 17 responsibilities 2 nice-to-have1+ years of SQL, ETL or Oracle experience
Where to focus your applied learning (10 taskes without course evidence yet)
These O*NET tasks don't have direct course-objective evidence in the Math BS catalog yet. Each is an opportunity to gain hands-on preparation through an applied project, MAA-sponsored partnership, elective, or internship. The Math BS applied-projects page has examples of project-driven learning that could close these kinds of gaps.
- Maintain or update business intelligence tools, databases, dashboards, systems, or methods. (importance 4.4/5)
- Manage timely flow of business intelligence information to users. (importance 4.2/5)
- Identify and analyze industry or geographic trends with business strategy implications. (importance 3.9/5)
- Create business intelligence tools or systems, including design of related databases, spreadsheets, or outputs. (importance 3.7/5)
- Collect business intelligence data from available industry reports, public information, field reports, or purchased sources. (importance 3.7/5)
- Synthesize current business intelligence or trend data to support recommendations for action. (importance 3.6/5)
- Identify or monitor current and potential customers, using business intelligence tools. (importance 3.5/5)
- Communicate with customers, competitors, suppliers, professional organizations, or others to stay abreast of industry or business trends. (importance 3.4/5)
- Maintain library of model documents, templates, or other reusable knowledge assets. (importance 3.4/5)
- Analyze technology trends to identify markets for future product development or to improve sales of existing products. (importance 3.2/5)
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