Careers at the Planet group

Business Analyst

Pontiac, MI 48013

Posted: 01/14/2026 Employment Type: Contract Job Category: Business Analyst Job Number: 642766 Is job remote?: No

Job Description

Business Analyst
Location: Pontiac MI
Contract: 12 months
Schedule: 3 days onsite
Pay: $40-43.20/hr, DOE

Business Analyst Qualifications: 
  • Bachelor’s Degree
  • 1-plus year(s) of experience as an IT project manager focusing on Tableau Dashboard design and/or software development / implementation projects.
  • Proficient verbal (and non-verbal), written and presentation skills; communicates clearly, with credibility and confidence.
  • Well-developed active listening & negotiating skills.
  • Ability to develop / coordinate cross-functional work groups and projects, yielding optimal outcomes.
  • Sound organizational, planning, analytical, and problem-solving skills, including the ability to recommend and participate in solution implementations in area(s) of responsibility.
  • Proficiency in project management software/tools (e.g. MS Project, Primavera, etc.)
  • Experienced in requirement gathering/analysis, design, development, testing, and production rollover of reporting and analysis projects.
  • Experience with Tableau for data extraction from SAP R/3 data, SAP BW data, Maximo data, legacy data, and data external to the organization (benchmarking data, etc.)
  • Ability to identify data quality gaps, develop a plan to close data quality gaps, develop required extraction programs, and schedule extracts for weekly and monthly reports.
  • Ability to perform Tableau calculations and apply complex, compound calculations to large, complex data sets.
  • Experience trouble shooting performance issues associated with Tableau reports.
  • Experience building queries and workbooks and preparing end user training documents.
Business Analyst Responsibilities: 
  • Produces attractive visuals/dashboards using techniques for guided analytics, interactive dashboard design, and visual best practices to convey the story inside the data.
  • Performs data mapping and extraction, transforms data to support automated weekly reporting into dashboards and scorecards.
  • Provides project status reports by collecting, analyzing, and summarizing data and trends.
  • Recommends information technology strategies, policies, and procedures by evaluating organization outcomes; identifying problems; evaluating trends; anticipating requirements.
  • Directs and coordinates project team activities at various phases of the project life cycle to meet project objective for one or more small- to medium-sized projects.
  • Accomplishes financial objectives by forecasting requirements; preparing an annual budget; scheduling expenditures; analyzing variances; initiating corrective action.
  • Completes projects by coordinating resources and timetables with user departments.
  • Verifies application results by conducting system audits of technologies implemented.
  • Maintains quality service by establishing and enforcing organization standards.
  • Coordinates overall communication and status reporting to internal customers and stakeholders. Formulates and delivers formal and informal presentations.
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