Senior Business Analyst

Posted Jul 23

Aviron, a Y-combinator company, is an experience-driven connected rowing machine built on an advanced gaming platform. We are excited to grow our team and share our vision of creating a leading fitness entertainment platform that motivates via gaming psychology and tech vs. the more common instructor-led connected fitness.

Backed by initial investors from Samsung and Formic Ventures (founded by Michael Antonov, the co-founder of Oculus), and having recently raised Series A funding led by investment firm Stripes, Aviron has over $23.5M in backing and is experiencing rapid growth (600%+ YoY) and top percentile user engagement while helping people change their lives for the better.

We demonstrate our commitment to improving the health and fitness of real, everyday people by not using models or professional athletes in our ads and growing a fanatical, supportive and positive community, which we highly recommend you check out to get a true sense of Aviron.

The pandemic has rapidly accelerated the in-home fitness industry and we're poised to continue this rapid pace of growth. We're looking for a passionate individual to join the OG team and be a part of our success story.

Aviron is right for you if:

  • You’re looking for a role that prioritizes personal and professional growth (*Aviron encourages development via a personal education allowance).
  • You're looking for a relatively flat organization with friendly people that values merit (i.e. good work).
  • You're self-motivated and produce amazing work.
  • You’re not down with office politics.
  • You want to own your work, start to finish.
  • You want to be provided with ample support and resources (i.e. budget) to complete said work.
  • You are looking to make an impact and see your work drive growth.

Position Overview:

We are currently looking for a Senior Business Analyst to join our team. Reporting into the Director of Finance, the Senior Business Analyst will be responsible for providing insights through data that assist in driving our business objectives forward. They will do so by working closely with Aviron’s departments, understanding business needs, reviewing available data sources, and working with internal/external resources to both provide recommendations and insights, as well as assist in managing the creation of tools for business management and decision making. This role is a ‘Quantitative Generalist’ who can use their analytics experience in a number of areas across Aviron’s business.

This position is fully remote with the option of coming into our North York office at any time.

Responsibilities:

  • Insights: Extracting actionable insights that will help drive operational improvements and inform strategic business decisions.
  • Initiatives and Special Projects: Performs analysis of business problems and opportunities to recommend solutions that enable Aviron to achieve its goals. Working closely with senior executives to manage specific initiatives linked to current business needs and areas of focus, example - assessing competitor landscapes, industry and target audience analysis, market analysis of a specific service, etc.
  • Solution Implementation: Involvement and management of solutions identified through analysis such as a business KPI dashboard.
  • Process Improvement: Review business processes and identify opportunities and strategies to improve business efficiency.
  • Risk Management: Identify and address operational, financial and technological risk within the business.
  • Roadmap ownership: Manage corporate project roadmap and help to ensure all milestones are met.
  • Metrics and KPIs: Define, implement and monitor key metrics and KPIs to ensure ongoing strategic alignment with short and long term business objectives.
  • Provide input on decisions relating to marketing, sales, and product development.
  • Other duties as assigned.

Qualifications / What You’ll Need to Succeed:

  • Bachelor's degree in Business, Economics, Computer Science, Math or related field required.
  • 6-8 years as a Business Analyst or related position.
  • Management consulting experience is an asset.
  • Top-notch mathematical and analytical skills.
  • Experience in data analytics and insights.
  • Working knowledge of data analysis and forecasting tools.
  • Strong ability to develop actionable insights from data.
  • High attention to detail.
  • Ops and Systems experience (ERP).
  • Excellent communicator who can effectively communicate findings and make recommendations to senior management.
  • Comfortable with ambiguity and change. Ability to rapidly adapt analysis and recommendations in response to changes in the business environment.
  • Proactive and self-directed. Take initiative and work independently to identify business opportunities and problems and develop solutions.
  • Ability to handle multiple projects in a fast-paced environment.
  • Legally eligible to work in Canada.

Nice to have:

  • Netsuite experience.
  • Good understanding of the startup ecosystem. Familiar with the various stages of a startup's lifecycle and the challenges that startups face at each stage.

Aviron is an equal opportunity employer. We provide a safe and inspiring workplace where everyone is accepted and has the opportunity to grow with us. If you require any accommodations, please let us know.