Senior Business Analytics Analyst: Finance & Administration/Budget & Finance - UTK.

Data Analytics & BI Full-Time

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The Role:This role is for a senior analytics professional supporting budgeting, forecasting, reporting, and strategic decision-making across a university finance and administration function.
The Person:The person will lead complex analytical work, translate business challenges into analytical approaches, partner with university leadership and stakeholders, and develop scalable reporting, forecasting, and planning frameworks.
Requirements:The role calls for leadership in enterprise analytics, modeling and strategies, reporting solutions, forecasting methodologies, performance measurement frameworks, and decision-support models.

About the role

The Division of Finance & Administration/Office of Budget & Finance at the University of Tennessee, Knoxville (UTK) invites applications for the Senior Business Analytics Analyst. Reporting to the Director, Business Analytics, Modeling & Strategies, the Senior Business Analytics Analyst serves as a senior analytical consultant supporting enterprise decision-making, institutional planning, budgeting, forecasting, resource allocation, operational performance management, and strategic initiatives across the university. The position leads complex analytical efforts that support operational and strategic priorities, partnering with university leadership and stakeholders to design scalable reporting solutions, forecasting methodologies, performance measurement frameworks, and decision-support models. The Senior Business Analytics Analyst independently translates complex business challenges into analytical approaches and actionable recommendations that improve decision-making, operational effectiveness, and institutional outcomes. The position contributes to the advancement of enterprise analytics capabilities through technical leadership, process improvement, governance participation, cross-functional collaboration, and the development of scalable analytical methodologies, reporting standards, and planning frameworks.

The University of Tennessee, Knoxville, has shaped leaders, changemakers, and innovative thinkers since its founding in 1794. The university is home to more than 38,000 students and 10,000 statewide employees—the Volunteers—who uphold the university’s tradition of lighting the way for others through leadership and service.

UT Knoxville offers over 900 programs of study across 14 degree-granting colleges and schools. As Tennessee’s flagship land-grant university, its footprint spans the entire state. The university holds the highest Carnegie classification for research activity and has deep partnerships with industry leaders and the US Department of Energy’s largest multidisciplinary laboratory, Oak Ridge National Laboratory.

The Knoxville campus serves and recruits for UT Knoxville, including the Institute of Agriculture and the Space Institute, as well as the UT Institute of Public Service.

UT Knoxville considers its employees its number one asset. With values that focus on work-life balance, compensation, and innovation leadership, all Vols are supported to advance professionally. Employees have access to career development and coaching, continued education, and an extensive list of development and training possibilities. The Volunteer employee experience implements structures and practices to attract and retain top-tier talent, fostering a strong staff community and supporting a culture of involvement and engagement for everyone.

The university holds a strong commitment to its land-grant mission of learning and engagement, with a tradition of service and leadership that carries that Volunteer spirit throughout the state and around the world. It has been ranked nationally as “Best Employer for New Graduates,” “One of America’s Best Large Employers,” and “Best Workplace for Women,” and has been designated as “Best Place for Working Parents” by Forbes Magazine.

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Published August 28, 2026

Location Knoxville, TN

Category Data Analytics & BI

Job Type Full-Time

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