Business Analyst

Full Time Falls Church VA RPS

Business Analyst

Falls Church VA RPS Full Time

Introduction

At RPS, we don’t just embrace bold ideas, we make them happen. We’re a team of entrepreneurs, big-picture thinkers, and passionate experts who thrive on possibility. Every day, we collaborate across teams, challenge convention, and push boundaries to design innovative solutions for our clients. With access to top-rated carriers and a dynamic marketplace, we bring strategy and creativity together to deliver what others might call impossible. Here, every voice counts, every perspective matters, and every challenge is an opportunity to grow. You’ll be supported by a culture that celebrates ownership, curiosity, and high performance, where you’re trusted to do your best work and encouraged to keep learning along the way.

How you’ll make an impact

As an Analyst for Program Strategy, you will execute quantitative analysis to drive actionable insights. Your insights should identify performance gaps and hypotheses for root cause, leading to specific action plans to capitalize on opportunities. In this role, you’ll work closely with executive leaders and internal stakeholders across the organization to complete complex ad-hoc analyses under tight deadlines. The ideal candidate can juggle multiple, time-sensitive analyses, effectively communicate expectations to internal and external stakeholders and streamline analytics processes/reporting where possible.

Key Responsibilities:

  • Communicate with stakeholders to determine analytical needs
  • Identify, manipulate, and extract data for analysis using SQL
  • Conduct root cause analysis to identify key drivers and actionable insights
  • Embed quality checks to ensure numerical accuracy and logical consistency
  • Consult with subject matter experts to deepen understanding of findings
  • Develop executive-ready presentations to communicate insights
  • Recommend program improvements based on analytical findings
  • Automate repetitive tasks to improve team efficiency
  • Mentor and coach junior team members, providing real-time feedback

About You

Preferred Requirements

  • Bachelor’s degree in statistics, mathematics, computer science, finance, data science, chemistry, engineering, or economics
  • Expert in Microsoft products – Excel, Power Pivot, Power BI
  • Intermediate to expert level in SQL for reading and manipulating data
  • Ability to work independently with minimal guidance as needed
  • Clear, concise, and effective communicator
  • Excellent problem-solving skills as well as critical thinking and conceptual thinking abilities
  • 4+ years of relevant professional experience in business intelligence, analytics, statistics, data science, or related field
  • Communication and stakeholder management skills
  • Data analysis
  • Problem solving
  • Statistical analysis
  • Basic programming knowledge
  • Data preparation/cleaning
  • Data visualization and presentation

Required:

  • Bachelor’s degree
  • Minimum of 3 years’ professional experience with quantitative analysis
  • 2 years of experience in financial services industry. Insurance preferred.
  • Less than 20% travel
  •  Communication and stakeholder management skills
  • Data analysis
  • Problem solving
  • Statistical analysis
  • Basic programming knowledge
  • Data preparation/cleaning
  • Data visualization and presentation
  • Typically requires a University Degree and minimum 3 years of prior relevant experience, or equivalent experience.

Compensation and benefits

We offer a competitive and comprehensive compensation package. The base salary range represents the anticipated low end and high end of the range for this position. The actual compensation will be influenced by a wide range of factors including, but not limited to previous experience, education, pay market/geography, complexity or scope, specialized skill set, lines of business/practice area, supply/demand, and scheduled hours. On top of a competitive salary, great teams and exciting career opportunities, we also offer a wide range of benefits. 

Below are the minimum core benefits you’ll get, depending on your job level these benefits may improve:

  • Medical/dental/vision plans, which start from day one!
  • Life and accident insurance
  • 401(K) and Roth options
  • Tax-advantaged accounts (HSA, FSA)
  • Educational expense reimbursement
  • Paid parental leave

Other benefits include:

  • Digital mental health services (Talkspace)
  • Flexible work hours (availability varies by office and job function)
  • Training programs
  • Gallagher Thrive program – elevating your health through challenges, workshops and digital fitness programs for your overall wellbeing
  • Charitable matching gift program
  • And more…

**The benefits summary above applies to fulltime positions. If you are not applying for a fulltime position, details about benefits will be provided during the selection process.

 

We value inclusion and diversity

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Inclusion and diversity (I&D) is a core part of our business, and it’s embedded into the fabric of our organization. For more than 95 years, Gallagher has led with a commitment to sustainability and to support the communities where we live and work.

Gallagher embraces our employees’ diverse identities, experiences and talents, allowing us to better serve our clients and communities. We see inclusion as a conscious commitment and diversity as a vital strength. By embracing diversity in all its forms, we live out The Gallagher Way to its fullest.

Gallagher believes that all persons are entitled to equal employment opportunity and prohibits any form of discrimination by its managers, employees, vendors or customers based on race, color, religion, creed, gender (including pregnancy status), sexual orientation, gender identity (which includes transgender and other gender non-conforming individuals), gender expression, hair expression, marital status, parental status, age, national origin, ancestry, disability, medical condition, genetic information, veteran or military status, citizenship status, or any other characteristic protected (herein referred to as “protected characteristics”) by applicable federal, state, or local laws.

Equal employment opportunity will be extended in all aspects of the employer-employee relationship, including, but not limited to, recruitment, hiring, training, promotion, transfer, demotion, compensation, benefits, layoff, and termination. In addition, Gallagher will make reasonable accommodations to known physical or mental limitations of an otherwise qualified person with a disability, unless the accommodation would impose an undue hardship on the operation of our business.

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