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OneMain is seeking an Associate Director, Strategic Planning & Business Analytics to play a pivotal role in shaping the company's growth plans, managing production performance, and driving data-informed business decisions.
This is a highly visible, cross-functional role at the center of the company's growth planning, production management, and performance analytics, with regular exposure to senior leaders, from Managing Directors to Executive Vice Presidents.
The role owns several business-critical processes that help the company establish growth expectations, monitor performance against plan, anticipate emerging risks and opportunities, and drive timely corrective actions. It also offers significant opportunities to modernize existing capabilities through AI, automation, and advanced analytics.
Responsibilities
1. Lead Monthly Production Planning & Performance Management
- Establish monthly production targets for Applications, Loans, and New Money, incorporating seasonality estimates, recent business trends, planned initiatives, and management overlays. Communicate and cascade aligned targets and assumptions to stakeholders across Finance, Operations, Marketing, and Credit.
- Monitor intra-month production performance, diagnose key drivers of variance, and partner across functions to identify emerging risks, opportunities, and potential corrective actions.
- Lead mid-month and month-end performance reviews, providing senior management with clear insights into results, underlying drivers, changes in outlook, and performance against targets.
2. Lead Annual Budgeting & Quarterly Reforecasting
- Develop annual budgets and quarterly production forecasts for Applications, Loans, Average Loan Size, and New Money, incorporating seasonality, recent trends, strategic initiatives, and evolving business conditions.
- Partner closely with Marketing, Credit, Operations, and Finance to align assumptions, critically evaluate inputs, and translate business strategies into credible, actionable production forecasts.
- Build New Money walks and driver-based analyses that explain changes in the production outlook, quantify the impact of key assumptions, and deliver a clear, compelling narrative to senior leadership.
3. Executive Reporting & Business Intelligence
- Lead the Competitive Intelligence reporting package, synthesizing affiliate performance, market data, competitor earnings, industry trends, and relevant developments into actionable insights for senior management.
- Track and analyze marketing unit economics and customer acquisition costs, identifying meaningful changes, emerging trends, and opportunities to improve marketing efficiency and business performance.
- Develop executive-ready reporting and ad hoc analyses, translating complex data into clear insights and recommendations that inform strategic and operational decisions.
4. Continuously Modernize & Improve the Function
- Build and deploy AI-enabled tools and agents to automate recurring workflows, accelerate diagnostics, and improve the speed and quality of business decision-making.
- Drive continuous process improvement through automation, stronger controls, and more effective analytical methods, enhancing efficiency, scalability, accuracy, and reliability.
- Develop new analytical capabilities and monitoring tools that enable the organization to detect emerging trends earlier, diagnose performance issues faster, and respond more effectively.
Qualifications
- Bachelor's degree preferred in a quantitative discipline such as Economics, Business Analytics, Engineering, Statistics, Data Science, or Computer Science.
8+ years of experience in analytics, business performance management, forecasting, or complex data-driven problem-solving.
Strong analytical instincts, intellectual curiosity, and a demonstrated ability to develop innovative, data-driven solutions to complex business problems.
Exceptional communication and interpersonal skills, with the ability to translate complex analyses into compelling insights and effectively engage senior executives.
- Self-starter with strong business judgment, the ability to work independently, challenge conventional thinking, and provide sound, fact-based recommendations.
Strong SQL and/or Python skills, with hands-on experience working with complex structured and unstructured datasets.
Location: hybrid schedule (3 days/week: Tues. - Thurs) // Wilmington, DE
Who we Are
OneMain Financial (NYSE: OMF) is the leader in offering nonprime customers responsible access to credit and is dedicated to improving the financial well-being of hardworking Americans. Since 1912, we’ve looked beyond credit scores to help people get the money they need today and reach their goals for tomorrow. Our growing suite of personal loans, credit cards and other products help people borrow better and work toward a brighter future.
Driven collaborators and innovators, our team thrives on transformative digital thinking, customer-first energy and flexible work arrangements that grow lives, careers and our company. At every level, we’re committed to an inclusive culture, career development and impacting the communities where we live and work. Getting people to a better place has made us a better company for over a century. There’s never been a better time to shine with OneMain.
Because team members at their best means OneMain at our best, we provide opportunities and benefits that make their health and careers a priority. That’s why we’ve packed our comprehensive benefits package for full- and some part-timers with:
- Health and wellbeing options including medical, prescription, dental, vision, hearing, accident, hospital indemnity, and life insurances
- Up to 4% matching 401(k)
- Employee Stock Purchase Plan (10% share discount)
- Tuition reimbursement
- Paid time off (15 days’ vacation per year, prorated based on start date)
- Paid sick leave as determined by state or local ordinance (prorated based on start date)
- 11 Paid holidays (4 floating holidays, prorated based on start date)
- Paid volunteer time (3 days per year, prorated based on start
- date)
OneMain Holdings, Inc. is an Equal Employment Opportunity (EEO) employer. Qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to age, ancestry, citizenship status, color, creed, culture, disability, ethnicity, gender, gender identity or expression, genetic information or history, marital status, military status, national origin, nationality, pregnancy, race, religion, sex, sexual orientation, socioeconomic status, transgender or on any other basis protected by law.
OneMain is seeking an Associate Director, Strategic Planning & Business Analytics to play a pivotal role in shaping the company's growth plans, managing production performance, and driving data-informed business decisions.
This is a highly visible, cross-functional role at the center of the company's growth planning, production management, and performance analytics, with regular exposure to senior leaders, from Managing Directors to Executive Vice Presidents.
The role owns several business-critical processes that help the company establish growth expectations, monitor performance against plan, anticipate emerging risks and opportunities, and drive timely corrective actions. It also offers significant opportunities to modernize existing capabilities through AI, automation, and advanced analytics.
Responsibilities
1. Lead Monthly Production Planning & Performance Management
- Establish monthly production targets for Applications, Loans, and New Money, incorporating seasonality estimates, recent business trends, planned initiatives, and management overlays. Communicate and cascade aligned targets and assumptions to stakeholders across Finance, Operations, Marketing, and Credit.
- Monitor intra-month production performance, diagnose key drivers of variance, and partner across functions to identify emerging risks, opportunities, and potential corrective actions.
- Lead mid-month and month-end performance reviews, providing senior management with clear insights into results, underlying drivers, changes in outlook, and performance against targets.
2. Lead Annual Budgeting & Quarterly Reforecasting
- Develop annual budgets and quarterly production forecasts for Applications, Loans, Average Loan Size, and New Money, incorporating seasonality, recent trends, strategic initiatives, and evolving business conditions.
- Partner closely with Marketing, Credit, Operations, and Finance to align assumptions, critically evaluate inputs, and translate business strategies into credible, actionable production forecasts.
- Build New Money walks and driver-based analyses that explain changes in the production outlook, quantify the impact of key assumptions, and deliver a clear, compelling narrative to senior leadership.
3. Executive Reporting & Business Intelligence
- Lead the Competitive Intelligence reporting package, synthesizing affiliate performance, market data, competitor earnings, industry trends, and relevant developments into actionable insights for senior management.
- Track and analyze marketing unit economics and customer acquisition costs, identifying meaningful changes, emerging trends, and opportunities to improve marketing efficiency and business performance.
- Develop executive-ready reporting and ad hoc analyses, translating complex data into clear insights and recommendations that inform strategic and operational decisions.
4. Continuously Modernize & Improve the Function
- Build and deploy AI-enabled tools and agents to automate recurring workflows, accelerate diagnostics, and improve the speed and quality of business decision-making.
- Drive continuous process improvement through automation, stronger controls, and more effective analytical methods, enhancing efficiency, scalability, accuracy, and reliability.
- Develop new analytical capabilities and monitoring tools that enable the organization to detect emerging trends earlier, diagnose performance issues faster, and respond more effectively.
Qualifications
- Bachelor's degree preferred in a quantitative discipline such as Economics, Business Analytics, Engineering, Statistics, Data Science, or Computer Science.
8+ years of experience in analytics, business performance management, forecasting, or complex data-driven problem-solving.
Strong analytical instincts, intellectual curiosity, and a demonstrated ability to develop innovative, data-driven solutions to complex business problems.
Exceptional communication and interpersonal skills, with the ability to translate complex analyses into compelling insights and effectively engage senior executives.
- Self-starter with strong business judgment, the ability to work independently, challenge conventional thinking, and provide sound, fact-based recommendations.
Strong SQL and/or Python skills, with hands-on experience working with complex structured and unstructured datasets.
Location: hybrid schedule (3 days/week: Tues. - Thurs) // Wilmington, DE
Who we Are
OneMain Financial (NYSE: OMF) is the leader in offering nonprime customers responsible access to credit and is dedicated to improving the financial well-being of hardworking Americans. Since 1912, we’ve looked beyond credit scores to help people get the money they need today and reach their goals for tomorrow. Our growing suite of personal loans, credit cards and other products help people borrow better and work toward a brighter future.
Driven collaborators and innovators, our team thrives on transformative digital thinking, customer-first energy and flexible work arrangements that grow lives, careers and our company. At every level, we’re committed to an inclusive culture, career development and impacting the communities where we live and work. Getting people to a better place has made us a better company for over a century. There’s never been a better time to shine with OneMain.
Because team members at their best means OneMain at our best, we provide opportunities and benefits that make their health and careers a priority. That’s why we’ve packed our comprehensive benefits package for full- and some part-timers with:
- Health and wellbeing options including medical, prescription, dental, vision, hearing, accident, hospital indemnity, and life insurances
- Up to 4% matching 401(k)
- Employee Stock Purchase Plan (10% share discount)
- Tuition reimbursement
- Paid time off (15 days’ vacation per year, prorated based on start date)
- Paid sick leave as determined by state or local ordinance (prorated based on start date)
- 11 Paid holidays (4 floating holidays, prorated based on start date)
- Paid volunteer time (3 days per year, prorated based on start
- date)
OneMain Holdings, Inc. is an Equal Employment Opportunity (EEO) employer. Qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to age, ancestry, citizenship status, color, creed, culture, disability, ethnicity, gender, gender identity or expression, genetic information or history, marital status, military status, national origin, nationality, pregnancy, race, religion, sex, sexual orientation, socioeconomic status, transgender or on any other basis protected by law.
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What Employers Look For
The qualifications that appear most often in strategic business analyst jobs.
- Bachelor's degree in business administration, finance, economics, or a related field
- Proficiency in SQL, Excel, and data visualization tools such as Tableau or Power BI
- Experience developing business requirements documents, process maps, and executive presentations
- Familiarity with Agile or Scrum methodologies and working alongside product or engineering teams
- Strong stakeholder management skills across multiple business units or leadership levels
- Certifications such as CBAP, PMP, or Six Sigma Green Belt are frequently preferred
Tips for Your Strategic Business Analyst Job Search
Tailor your resume to each engagement type
Strategic business analyst roles split between project-based consulting engagements and embedded enterprise positions. Highlight cross-functional stakeholder management and business case development for the former, and process ownership and KPI design for the latter. Matching your resume framing to the engagement type lifts response rates.
Show your requirements documentation work
Hiring managers for this role scan for concrete deliverables, not just job duties. Name the BRDs, functional specs, or process maps you authored, the stakeholders you aligned, and the decisions your analysis drove. Vague claims about 'supporting strategy' get filtered out fast.
Target postings by methodology, not just title
Many strategic business analyst openings are posted under adjacent titles like 'business process analyst' or 'strategy analyst.' Search by methodology terms your work centers on, such as Agile, Six Sigma, or BPMN, to surface roles that match your actual skill set without keyword mismatch.
Apply early to roles that fit
Migrate Mate lists strategic business analyst openings from across the United States in one place, so you can find roles that match and apply directly to each listing.
Prepare a structured case walk-through
Interviews for this role almost always include a live business case or take-home scenario. Practice walking through problem definition, data gathering approach, stakeholder mapping, and recommendation framing out loud. Interviewers evaluate your structure as much as your conclusion.
Negotiate scope alongside compensation
When you receive an offer, clarify what 'strategic' means in practice at that organization. Ask whether the role owns recommendations end-to-end or hands off to execution teams. Scope ambiguity is the top reason new hires in this title feel underutilized within six months, so get it in writing.
Strategic Business Analyst Jobs: Frequently Asked Questions
Which companies are hiring the most strategic business analysts?
The most active employers for strategic business analysts right now are Capital One, AT&T, and DaVita, and the most openings are in California, Texas, and New York, based on current listings on Migrate Mate as of November 2026. Demand is especially concentrated in financial services, healthcare systems, and large technology firms with dedicated strategy or operations functions.
How many strategic business analyst jobs are remote?
About 86% of strategic business analyst openings are fully remote or hybrid as of November 2026, reflecting strong demand for distributed strategy and operations talent. Sub-areas such as data-driven process improvement and enterprise technology analysis tend to offer the highest share of remote arrangements, while roles requiring in-person stakeholder facilitation or on-site process observation lean hybrid or fully on-site.
How do you become a strategic business analyst?
Start with a bachelor's degree in business, finance, or a quantitative field, then build hands-on experience with requirements gathering, process mapping, and data analysis in any analyst or operations role. Earning a certification such as CBAP or PMP demonstrates structured methodology. Moving from a junior analyst position into a strategic role typically requires demonstrating cross-functional influence and ownership of recommendations, not just data delivery.
Can you get hired as a strategic business analyst without much experience?
Yes, though you'll need to compensate with demonstrated analytical output rather than years of tenure. Employers hiring at the entry level look for completed case competitions, independent process improvement projects, or internship work where you translated data into a business recommendation. Framing academic or volunteer projects as requirements-to-outcome narratives, rather than task lists, closes most of the experience gap in your application materials.
What does the strategic business analyst interview process look like?
Most processes run three to four stages: an initial screening call focused on background and communication style, a technical or analytical round assessing your approach to data and business problems, a live or take-home case study where you present findings to a panel, and a final round with senior stakeholders evaluating strategic thinking and cultural fit. Some organizations add a written requirements documentation exercise before the offer stage.
Where can I find and apply to strategic business analyst jobs?
You can find and apply to strategic business analyst jobs on Migrate Mate, which lists current openings from across the United States. Search the roles available, find the ones that match your background and preferences, and apply directly to each listing that fits.
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