Senior Business Analyst, Workforce Strategy at Aurorainnovation

Aurorainnovation

Dallas, Texas·1w ago

SeniorFull-timePythonRustGo

Salary Range

$93,925 - $127,075 /year

Estimated

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About the Role

We are looking for a Business Analyst, Workforce Strategy to join the Operations Excellence team at Aurora. This role focuses on forecasting, allocating, and optimizing operations headcount to align resource plans and schedules with hiring and vendor engagement strategies.

Key Responsibilities

→Partner with Operations, Strategy, Recruiting, and Finance leaders to forecast and align headcount needs against organizational strategy and roadmap
→Build sophisticated financial and operational models that connect business drivers to staffing requirements, recruiting/vendor management plans, and budget implications
→Build intuitive dashboards, metrics, and reports that highlight staffing utilization, labor productivity constraints, and capacity gaps
→Partner with senior Operations and Finance leaders to develop scenarios balancing service levels, cost optimization, and growth objectives
→Apply probabilistic modeling to simulate cost & efficiency trade-offs and resource optimization
→Lead monthly headcount data analysis and vendor management strategy reviews
→Analyze large, disparate datasets to uncover statistical trends in labor productivity and attrition
→Monitor workforce KPIs and identify program gaps or execution issues that impact profitability and scalability
→Improve data integrity and automate manual reporting workflows

Requirements

✓5+ years of experience in management consulting, investment banking, engineering operations, FP&A, or strategic operations
✓Bachelor’s degree and/or work experience in a quantitative field
✓Exceptional Excel/Google Sheets financial modeling skills
✓Expert in SQL and building dashboards in business intelligence tools
✓Experience building/maintaining data pipelines and DBT models
✓Strategic mindset with ability to balance detailed analysis with big-picture thinking
✓Track record of multi-functional leadership and excellent stakeholder management
✓Strong executive presence with demonstrated ability to communicate complex analyses clearly
✓Superior attention to detail
✓Ownership mentality to drive issues and tasks to completion