Job: Business Analyst
Job Description
Job Type: Full time, Salaried
Wage: $82,617.60-$92,976/yr.
Location: Grand Junction, CO.
Job Description:
New to the City of Grand Junction Team? Receive 40 hours Paid Time Off upon hire!
About the Position:
Visit Grand Junction is seeking a Business Analyst to perform a variety of data, financial, and business analysis duties, including managing the organization’s annual budget, researching, interpreting, and analyzing local & industry data using Visit Grand Junction’s data platform, and identifying meaningful insights, to determine overall fiscal, operational, and service impacts. Candidate must possess solid business; financial and data acumen combined with strong analytical skills and a strategic view of marketing and performance metrics to uncover insights and drive advanced decision-making. The Analyst will be an in-office position that will assist in overseeing a fast-paced office, manage and collaborate with the marketing staff on multiple projects with overlapping deadlines, serve as liaison to the Visit Grand Junction Advisory Board of Directors and manage assigned staff. If you are a dedicated business, finance, or data professional with a passion for research and excel in a fast-paced work environment, we encourage you to apply!
About Visit Grand Junction:
Visit Grand Junction, the City of Grand Junction’s Destination Marketing Organization, deploys marketing targeted toward potential visitors outside Mesa County to attract travel and tourism to the area. Visit Grand Junction is responsible for enhancing Grand Junction’s brand to create an attractive destination while enhancing its public image as a dynamic place to live and work. Through the promotion of travel and tourism, Visit Grand Junction strengthens Grand Junction’s economic position, which provides a sustainable, diverse, and consistent economy that supports businesses, and enhances the quality of life for residents. The team consists of dynamic individuals who are culture-focused, innovative, driven, intellectually curious, and dedicated to supporting the travel and tourism industry while reaching departmental goals that serve the Grand Junction area community and guests. The Department is a cutting-edge marketing organization built upon a foundation of data science.
What We Offer:
We know that a healthy and happy workforce is a thriving workforce, which is why we offer a comprehensive benefits package that supports quality work-life balance including 32 days of paid annual leave to be used for holiday, personal, and/or sick days, health insurance options, employer-matched retirement, a City employee health clinic, wellness program, and an Employee Assistance Program. Of equal importance, we offer an opportunity to serve the community you love and live in. Our employees find their work rewarding and fulfilling, knowing that their day job makes a positive impact.
Our Culture:
At the City of Grand Junction, we lead the way with continuous improvement, collaborative partnerships, and exemplary service. Our core values are demonstrated by our willingness to challenge the status quo, ability to work together using all areas of expertise to achieve a common goal, and commitment to fulfilling the needs of our community through thoughtful interactions. We are searching for professionals who share our values to join our organization.
At the City of Grand Junction, we lead the way with continuous improvement, collaborative partnerships, and exemplary service. Our core values are demonstrated by our willingness to challenge the status quo, ability to work together using all areas of expertise to achieve a common goal, and commitment to fulfilling the needs of our community through thoughtful interactions. We are searching for professionals who share our values to join our organization.
Duties
What You'll Do:
- Project, formulate, and manage the Visit Grand Junction annual budget and regularly perform detailed financial and data analysis, including long-range forecasting of revenue generation, developing strategies to maximize revenue and return on investment, while reducing expenditures. Research, identify, keep abreast of, and report meaningful insights, trends, issues, concerns, and opportunities to mitigate risk and improve business operations and processes.
- Provide highly responsible and complex financial support to management and staff.
- Regularly monitor, conduct, and critically analyze industry & marketing research while evaluating the state of the local and national economy, to determine travel and tourism trends and insights.
- Analyze, model, and interpret data patterns and trends, and create visualizations using Visit Grand Junction’s Tableau platform to ensure accurate analysis and projections. Conduct competitive research and analyze benchmarking data.
- Ensure marketing initiatives and financial objectives such as growth, margins, and productivity are appropriately analyzed and aligned with the budget. Write business narratives and create presentations.
- Oversee Visit Grand Junction’s contractual obligations and procurement processes, review and administer vendor contracts, and monitor contract expenditures.
- Manage the work and activities of assigned staff, including onboarding and participate in the recruitment and selection of staff.
- Manage and oversee department operations and work closely with the Visit Grand Junction Director to resolve challenges and provide recommendations for quality and process improvement. Manage multiple complex and intricate marketing projects and strategic initiatives with overlapping deadlines.
- Serve as the liaison to the Visit Grand Junction Advisory Board of Directors, collaborating closely with the Director to create monthly agendas, compile meeting minutes, coordinate community updates, and assist with the facilitation of an annual orientation for new board members.
- Work with community stakeholders and boards, City and Department committees, City staff, and contracted vendors to problem-solve and implement solutions. Assist with projects, reports, City Council Staff Reports, communications, and presentations, including preparation for board meetings, staff meetings, community programs, agency proposals, contract management, stakeholder services, and annual reports.
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Qualifications
What We're Looking For:
- Four years of increasingly responsible experience in professional accounting, financial analysis, or business operations analysis; government accounting experience desirable.
- Bachelor’s degree from an accredited college or university with major course work in finance, analysis, accounting, business administration or a related field..
Other combinations of experience and education that meet the minimum requirements may be substituted.
Notice to Applicants:
In compliance with the Colorado Job Application Fairness Act, we kindly request that you do not include the dates of your education to include years of attendance or graduation on your application, resume or attachments.
Supplemental Information
City of Grand Junction Employee Childcare Facility:
We know finding a quality childcare provider can be challenging, that's why the City of Grand Junction is proud to offer its employees affordable childcare through the City of Grand Junction Childcare Facility (GJCCF). GJCCF offers childcare for children ages 6 weeks (infants) to 6 years of age (preschool). With flexible scheduling and highly trained Early Childhood Education professionals, know that your little one will be in good hands while you support your community.
Explore the Area:
Grand Junction, Colorado is the gateway to the mountains and canyonlands of western Colorado and eastern Utah. Centrally located between Denver, CO (250 miles east) and Salt Lake City, UT (270 miles west), Grand Junction is surrounded by 1.2 million acres of public land. Residents enjoy world-class whitewater rafting on the Colorado and Green Rivers, golfing, fishing, skiing and snowboarding, and exploring mountain bike and hiking trails through the Colorado National Monument and the Grand Mesa National Forest. Grand Junction has a robust downtown and hosts multiple art, music, food, and market events annually. With a population of over 150,000 in Mesa County (65,000 within the City limits) we have many of the big town amenities without the big town stresses such as traffic and trail congestion. With an average of 245 days of sunshine, Grand Junction is the perfect place to work and play.
Learn more about our area on Visit Grand Junction's website and Instagram!
At the City of Grand Junction, we proudly operate as an Equal Opportunity Employer, purposely building an inclusive workforce representative of various cultures, perspectives, and experiences. We believe in respect for all and do not discriminate based on hair, race, color, religion, creed, sex (including pregnancy, gender identity, gender expression and sexual orientation), national origin, age (40 or older), disability, genetic information, marital status, veteran status or any other status protected by applicable federal, state or local law.
If you have any questions or need assistance or accommodations due to a disability, please contact our Human Resources office at 970.244.1512.
**Disclaimer: The duties and responsibilities described above are not a comprehensive list and additional tasks may be assigned to the employee, time to time; the scope of the job may change as necessitated by business demands. Click “View Application” below for more detail on this specific job.