BUSINESS INSIGHT ANALYSTS (3 ROLES)

We at Business Finland generate prosperity for Finland by helping Finnish companies to grow and thrive globally, develop future solutions, and reform their business operations boldly. At the same time, we are developing Finland into the most attractive and competitive innovation environment and the most enticing investment and travel destination in the world.

Our organization employs 760 specialists at 37 foreign locations and 16 offices in Finland. Business Finland is a public-sector operator and part of the Team Finland network. Read more: www.businessfinland.com

We are now looking for  

BUSINESS INSIGHT ANALYSTS (3 ROLES)  

Your primary responsibility as our Business Insight Analyst is to develop, analyze, and translate data on business and markets into relevant insights for decision-making. You will thereby help to ensure that Business Finland is delivering impactful services to the benefit of our customers and prosperity of Finland. We have evolved into a customer-centric and international agency with a wealth of data. In this role you will elevate Business Finland’s data and insight management capabilities to new levels and thus accelerate our transformation into a data and insight-driven organization. 

You will join a cross-organizational team of other Business Insight Analysts and experts to utilize and combine a range of different types of data into actionable insights for strategic and operational decision-making. You will be the critical link between service area needs, data sources, business, and market research, draw relevant conclusions from complex data, and communicate these in an impactful way to align operations with objectives. You will also contribute to making sure that business and market insights are used to improve our customer service and other processes.  

These are new roles at Business Finland. At the same time, we are also recruiting a Head of Analytics & Insights to develop and lead the cross-organizational network that you will be part of.

Two Business Insight Analysts will be located at our Strategic Insight unit (impacts, foresight, and strategy). One of these analysts will mainly serve needs related to understanding how the Finnish business sector is evolving at company, industry, and sectoral level, including how our customer and service portfolios are aligned with these developments (Customer & Networks Service Area). The other analyst will mainly serve needs related to international market insights and foresight in regions where we have offices to stimulate exports (Global Growth Service Area). 

We have interesting and impactful work to offer and look forward to your application!

WHAT YOU GET TO DO

• Identification of business and market data needs, information retrieval and analytical opportunities, both proactively and ad-hoc, for strategic and operational decision-making.
• Modify, analyze, and interpret trends or patterns in complex data sets by using statistical and other techniques.
• Use graphs, infographics, and other methods to visualize data and insights. Create dashboards to communicate findings and conclusions to decision-makers, internal customers, and external stakeholders. 
• Identify problems, challenges, or inefficiencies to maximize the process and steering efficiency.
• Collaborate with internal (analysts, project managers, cross-functional teams) and external stakeholders (e.g. other TF organizations, ministries, industry, and companies) and communicate analysis with conclusions and action proposals from Business Finland´s perspective.
• Create clear and concise documentation to ensure that all stakeholders have a shared understanding of project and task objectives.

WHO AND WHAT ARE WE LOOKING FOR

• Master's degree or equal 
• Strong knowledge, ability and proven track record in compiling and utilizing various types of complex qualitative and quantitative data, analyzing this data competently and developing actionable conclusions for decision-making.

o   For one of the roles (Customers & Networks Service Area): mainly company, industry, sectoral data, including Business Finland’s CRM data.

o   For one of the roles (Global Network Service Area): mainly export, market and sectoral data, including foresight data and insights. For this role documented experience of using foresight tools and approaches is also important.

o   For one of the roles (Finland Promotion Services): to support our strategy and the activities in achieving our set goals in attracting foreign investments, visitors, and international talent to Finland. The role strongly supports the Finland Promotion Services Management team with insights and analysis as base for decision making through e.g. market insight, benchmark analysis, foresight data and insight.

• Experience of utilizing various techniques for data visualizations, reporting and communication of results and conclusions in impactful ways 
• A structured way of working. experience in project management and related tools, including strong problem-solving skills, attention to both detail and the bigger picture.
• Language skills:

o   For two of the roles: Fluency in English (Finland Promotion Services & Global Growth)

o   For one of the roles: Fluency in Finnish and English, a basic proficiency in Swedish (Customers & Networks)

• Excellent collaboration, communication, presentation, social media, and other communicative skills to effectively present findings to executives and stakeholders. 

At Business Finland we Think Big and work Together – with Passion and Sisu! In our colleagues, we also value

• Ability to embrace challenges and turn them into opportunities
• Showing appreciation and respect to others: sparring, listening and inspiring colleagues
• Eagerness to develop yourself and look at things from new perspectives
• Ability to express your opinions boldly and constructively
• Willingness and pride to work for Finland's future  

THIS IS WHAT WE OFFER YOU

At Business Finland, you get to work for Finland and help Finnish companies go international – while enhancing the attractiveness of the Finnish competitive environment. Your work has a significant impact on the whole of Finland, and you get to influence the future of the country.

You would be joining Business Finland at a time when we make a major push for valorizing potentially very impactful data that we are accumulating to boost our work for Finland in uncertain but also interesting times, data and insights will one of our key assets moving forward. We are currently also recruiting a Head of Business Analysis to strengthen the network that you will develop and lead. You will thereby also have an opportunity to co-create new ways of working, and co-develop new tools and approaches, with both seasoned and new colleagues.

We invest a lot in maintaining and developing the professional skills of our experts. We offer our employees up to eight working days a year to develop their own skills and competencies in the way they see fit. Our remote work practices are also very flexible. In addition, we offer sports, culture and wellbeing benefits through Smartum, as well as good occupational health care.

ADDITIONAL INFORMATION 

This is a permanent position located along good transport connections in Ruoholahti, Helsinki. 

In case you have questions about the position, please reach out to:

Executive Director, Finland Promotion Services, Johanna Jäkälä (+358 40 844 2086) on Tuesday, 26.3. between 10:00 and 11:00.
 or
 Senior Director, Strategic Insight, Christopher Palmberg (+358 50 557 7966) on 22.3. between 14.00 and 15.00, and on 28.3. between 15.00 and 16.00.  

Please send your CV and application letter with your salary request by 4.4.2024. 

In Business Finland we must operate in a responsible and fair manner. Certain secondary employment or some other commitments might jeopardize the impartiality of our operations. For more information, please see our Guidelines for Affiliations.

As part of the recruitment process, we will be carrying out a security clearance check on a successful candidate with his/her consent in accordance with the Security Clearance Act 726/2014. For more information on security clearance procedure and individual’s rights, please visit https://supo.fi/en/security-clearances.

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