Senior Business Analyst

About Ancestry: When you join Ancestry, you join a human-centered company where every person’s story is important. We believe that by discovering the struggles and triumphs of our past, we can foster deeper bonds and more meaningful connections among families and communities. Our talented team of scientists, engineers, genealogists, historians, and storytellers is dedicated to empowering customers around the world from all backgrounds on their journeys of personal discovery.

With more than 30+ billion digitized global historical records, 100+ million family trees, and 20+ million people in our growing AncestryDNA database, Ancestry helps customers discover their family story and gain a new level of understanding about their lives. Passionate about dedicating your work to enriching people’s lives? You belong at Ancestry.

The Content organization at Ancestry is looking for a Lead Analyst. You are an individual contributor that expects to grow into a leadership role over time. You will participate in annual budgeting, monthly forecasting, and variance analysis. You will work with the content acquisition team, imaging team, indexing team, and publishing team to improve Ancestry content production.

The Content organization at Ancestry takes pride in finding unique historical records from around the globe and converting them into meaningful and searchable formats that serve as a wealth of information for our family history customers. We are a team that provides millions of new unique records to Ancestry customers each year. Ancestry is the global leader in family history and more than 20 billion records have been added to the site over the past two decades.

What You Will Do

• You will create new reports from scratch while automating and streamlining existing reports
• You will present reports to senior management and work with individual contributors, tailoring your communication style accordingly
• You will bring solutions to the team and help co-workers
• You will be a power user of Microsoft Excel (can maintain complex spreadsheets)
• You will need high-level proficiency with SQL-based query languages and relational data concepts
• Competent with Data Warehouses and Data table creation
• You have a working knowledge of accounting, finance, accruals, reversals, and capital expenditures

Who You Are

• 3+ years of professional analytical experience
• Bachelor's Degree in one of the following fields: Computer Science, Business, Finance, Mathematics, Economics or related field
• Experience finding distinct data sources, pulling data, and organizing data in a way that tells a clear story to assist the management team in making business-critical decisions
• Experience with enterprise reporting and data visualization tools such as PowerBI and Tableau
• Experience leading and coordinating broad business reviews
• FP&A experience
• Passion for family history #LI-SW1

Additional Information: Ancestry is an Equal Opportunity Employer that makes employment decisions without regard to race, color, religious creed, national origin, ancestry, sex, pregnancy, sexual orientation, gender, gender identity, gender expression, age, mental or physical disability, medical condition, military or veteran status, citizenship, marital status, genetic information, or any other characteristic protected by applicable law. In addition, Ancestry will provide reasonable accommodations for qualified individuals with disabilities.

All job offers are contingent on a background check screen that complies with applicable law. For San Francisco office candidates, pursuant to the San Francisco Fair Chance Ordinance, Ancestry will consider for employment qualified applicants with arrest and conviction records.

Ancestry is not accepting unsolicited assistance from search firms for this employment opportunity. All resumes submitted by search firms to any employee at Ancestry via-email, the Internet or in any form and/or method without a valid written search agreement in place for this position will be deemed the sole property of Ancestry. No fee will be paid in the event the candidate is hired by Ancestry as a result of the referral or through other means.