Business Analytics Intern
 Microsoft | |
 United States, Washington, Redmond | |
 Oct 01, 2024 | |
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OverviewCome build community, explore your passions and do your best work at Microsoft with thousands of University interns from every corner of the world. This opportunity will allow you to bring your aspirations, talent, potential-and excitement for the journey ahead. As a Business Analyst Intern, you will support the development and evaluation of analyses and reporting used to provide insights to decision makers around complex business problems. By assisting in the integration of mathematical and predictive analyses, operations research, and business analysis skills, you will help manage and analyze complex business data. You will support the understanding and anticipation of both business and data requirements, suggest opportunities to identify additional insights by leveraging data across sources, and assist in determining follow-up actions to share insights that drive decision-making to address specific business needs. Microsoft's mission is to empower every person and every organization on the planet to achieve more. As employees we come together with a growth mindset, innovate to empower others, and collaborate to realize our shared goals. Each day we build on our values of respect, integrity, and accountability to create a culture of inclusion where everyone can thrive at work and beyond.
ResponsibilitiesAs you begin to learn the business you will support the development of data infrastructure and analytical frameworks. You'll leverage your understanding of the business to examine projects through a customer and/or stakeholder-oriented focus.You will use appropriate sources of data to address specific business needs and escalate complex issues. You'll conduct analyses to respond to business questions and evaluate with guidance from others.You will share and simplify relevant findings, with guidance, and ensure presented results provide information accurately. You'll build and/or conduct formal experiments and report results under direction.You will implement methods for making reporting and analytics self-service and efficient. You will understand linkages between analytical models and contribute to the summary of the review process-and, if the model is deemed deficient-seek to determine why.You will build working relationships within and across teams to ensure alignment to deliver key insights and results. You'll adhere to data privacy rules and ensure data have undergone appropriate review.Conducts analyses to respond to business questions, interprets analytical outputs, provides responses in an appropriate format, and partners to build on others' analyses and frameworks.Critically evaluates the choice of tools, techniques, and assumptions to ensure they are appropriate within context and provides feedback on features and functions of analytical tools and/or models with guidance from others | |