Senior Business Data Analyst

Who We Are: At Hunt St, we help Australian companies hire top remote talent in the Philippines. For this role, you will be engaged directly by the client as an independent contractor. We are not an outsourcing agency. All of our roles are 100% remote so you'll be able to work from home.

Who The Client Is: Our client is a technology-driven organization that helps businesses modernize their operations through software development, process automation, and tailored IT solutions. By leveraging scalable technologies and strategic digital initiatives, they enable organizations to improve efficiency, streamline workflows, and navigate evolving business challenges. Their commitment to delivering practical, results-oriented solutions has made them a trusted partner for companies seeking sustainable growth and operational excellence.

Role Overview: The Senior Business Data Analyst will play a key role in helping to turn data into better commercial, customer and operational decisions across its brands and retail, digital and wholesale channels. This is a hands-on role that combines strong analytical capability with business partnering, working closely with stakeholders to understand business challenges, define requirements and translate complex data into clear, actionable insights. The role will analyse customer, product, sales, inventory and operational data, identify trends and performance drivers, challenge assumptions, and provide recommendations that directly support business priorities.

Key Responsibilities:

Business analysis and problem definition

• Work with stakeholders to understand business problems, decisions and priorities
• Build a strong understanding of the business processes behind the data

Requirements definition

• Gather requirements for analytics, reporting and data initiatives
• Define metrics, business rules, data needs and acceptance criteria
• Document requirements to allow technical teams to build the right solution
• Help prioritise requirements based on business value, effort and available data

Analytics and insights

• Analyse customer, product, sales, inventory and operational data
• Identify trends, performance drivers, risks and opportunities
• Test assumptions and investigate the reasons behind business performance
• Turn findings into clear insights and practical recommendations
• Present analysis in a way that helps stakeholders make decisions and take action
• Ensure analytical outputs are accurate and supported by the data

Stakeholder partnership

• Build strong working relationships across Brand and Technology teams
• Run workshops and working sessions to explore problems and review findings
• Challenge assumptions where needed and help stakeholders reach a shared view

Requirements

Required Skills and Qualifications:

• At least 5 years of experience in data analysis, business analysis or a related role
• Experience analysing data and presenting findings to business stakeholders
• Experience turning business questions into structured analysis and clear recommendations
• Experience defining metrics, business rules and data requirements

Industry knowledge

• Experience or strong knowledge of the apparel industry, along with an understanding of retail, digital and wholesale channels is important
• Experience in areas such as product, merchandising, planning, inventory, ecommerce, or supply chain

Technical skills

• Strong skills in SQL, Excel and data visualisation
• Practical experience with PowerBI or a similar BI tool
• Experience with Snowflake or a similar data platform would be useful
• Exposure to advanced analytics or AI-driven data analytics would be an advantage

Essential Qualities:

Analytically strong

• Confident working directly with data to answer business questions
• Takes a careful approach to calculations, definitions and data quality

Structured problem solver

• Brings clarity to broad or unclear problems
• Breaks complex questions into manageable analytical work

Clear and collaborative

• Works well with both business and technical teams
• Explains findings simply and without unnecessary technical language
• Listens to stakeholders, while providing constructive challenge

Outcome focused

• Focused on identifying practical, actionable insights
• Connects analysis to commercial, customer and operational outcomes
• Takes ownership of work from initial question through to final recommendation

Work Arrangement & Expectations:

This is a remote role that will be set up as an independent contractor engagement.

• Disclose any existing ongoing roles or client work
• Reflect this engagement on their LinkedIn profile (clearly marked as “Independent Contractor”)