Business Analytics Associate

Company Overview

Hilco Global, a subsidiary of ORIX Corporation USA, is a diversified financial services company that delivers integrated professional services and capital solutions that help clients maximize value and drive performance across the retail, commercial and industrial, real estate, manufacturing, brand and intellectual property sectors, and more. Hilco Global provides a range of customized solutions to healthy, stressed, and distressed companies to resolve complex situations and enhance long-term enterprise value. Hilco Global works to deliver the best possible result by aligning interests with clients and providing strategic advice and, in many instances, the capital required to complete the deal. Hilco Global is based in Northbrook, Illinois and has more than 850 professionals operating on four continents. Visit www.hilcoglobal.com.

Position Overview

Hilco Global is the world’s preeminent authority on maximizing asset value for both healthy and distressed companies. We provide a comprehensive range of financial services that leverage a unique blend of deep restructuring and advisory experience, combined with capital solutions and principal investing through our merchant banking capabilities.

Hilco Global’s unrivaled track record has been hard-earned by serving as a trusted advisor, agent, investor and/or principal in transactions of all sizes and scopes for many of the world’s largest, most innovative and best-known companies. In each engagement, we work side-by-side with clients to deliver the best possible outcome by aligning interests and providing strategic insight, advice, and access to the capital required to complete the deal. Hilco Global has 800+ professionals who are positioned across five continents.

Our growing team has an open role for an Associate, Business Analytics, to join the CRM and Corporate Intelligence team. The Associate, Business Analytics, will report directly to the Senior Director, CRM & Corporate Intelligence.

This is a senior individual-contributor role that leads enterprise analytics workstreams through influence but has no direct reports. The position involves planning, developing, and executing essential operational functions within CRM platforms such as Salesforce for both divisions of Hilco Global (HG Professional Services and HG Capital Solutions and each of their specialty practices. The individual must effectively work on a range of assignments in a fast-paced, highly collaborative team environment, under the overall responsibility of the global company’s Chief Marketing Officer - Head of Global Business Development Operations. Importantly, the job will require active engagement with the Senior Director of Brand Marketing and Communications, the Senior Director of CRM & Corporate Intelligence, the Associate Director of CRM, various associates, and analysts across departments and divisions as necessary. This position combines data analytics and thoughtful analysis of the CRM and adjacent data to provide business-building industry insights. The role will tap into Hilco Global's overall data strategy, which includes the Data Lake, Salesforce, Workday, and many other syndicated data sources to promote business development and drive Hilco's enterprise growth.

Responsibilities

• Deliver enterprise CRM reporting and executive insights. Own recurring weekly, monthly, and quarterly reporting packages and Power BI dashboards, ensuring accurate results, timely delivery, and consistent KPI definitions. Perform ad hoc commercial analyses and translate findings into concise executive narratives with clear risks, opportunities, and recommended actions.

• Strengthen pipeline intelligence and forecasting. Analyze pipeline health by practice, stage, owner, deal team, and originator, including conversion rates, sales-cycle length, average deal size, and win rates. Produce revenue outlooks from current engagements, weighted pipeline, recurring business, and historical conversion; reconcile forecasts to actuals and explain material variances.

• Measure business development and marketing effectiveness. Develop ROI and attribution analyses for firms, contacts, business developers, events, meetings, referrals, and originated revenue. Build practical contact- and event-value scoring frameworks and document attribution rules, assumptions, and limitations.

• Integrate and govern commercial data. Combine Salesforce, Workday, enterprise data-platform, and external-source data; perform reconciliation, quality checks, and documentation of business rules, definitions, and lineage. Automate repeatable data preparation and reporting workflows using Power BI, Power Query/DAX, SQL, AI, Excel, and other approved tools.

• Transform data into decision support and corporate intelligence. Develop company, account, and relationship insights; support predictive and AI-assisted analytics with validation, source traceability, and appropriate human review. Lead assigned analytics workstreams from requirements through testing and rollout, coordinate stakeholders, and provide informal guidance to analysts as needed.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Business Analytics, Finance, Economics, Statistics, Information Systems, Computer Science, or a related field; equivalent relevant experience will be considered.
• Three or more years of progressive experience in business analytics, business intelligence, revenue or sales operations, financial analysis, or commercial reporting.
• Advanced Power BI capability, including dashboard development, data modeling, Power Query, and DAX.
• Strong SQL, Excel, and PowerPoint skills, including multi-source data reconciliation and executive-ready analysis.
• Hands-on experience with Salesforce reporting and data, plus exposure to an ERP, finance system, data warehouse, or enterprise data platform; Workday is preferred.
• Experience automating recurring reporting workflows and maintaining documented datasets, business rules, and quality controls.
• Applied experience with pipeline, forecasting, revenue, ROI, attribution, customer, or relationship analytics.
• Strong communication and workstream-management skills, with the ability to explain assumptions and limitations, meet deadlines, collaborate across functions, and handle confidential information.
• Experience with Python, Tableau, Oracle, external market-data platforms, financial or professional services, and approved AI-assisted analytics tools is preferred.

Characteristics of success

• Business judgment: Connects reporting and analysis to practical commercial and stakeholder decisions.
• Analytical rigor: Tests assumptions, reconciles discrepancies, documents methodology, and produces defensible results.
• Ownership and execution: Independently drives assigned deliverables and escalates risks early.
• Executive communication: Converts complex data into concise, credible, and actionable insights.
• Scalable-builder mindset: Improves repeatability through automation, reusable datasets, documentation, and quality controls.
• Collaborative influence and learning agility: Works effectively without formal authority, shares knowledge, and applies new tools responsibly.

Annual base salary gross: $70,000-$90,000. The base salary range represents the estimated low and high end of Hilco’s salary for this position based on geography. Actual base salaries will vary and will be based on various factors, such as candidate’s qualifications, skills, competencies and proficiency for the role. The base pay is one component of Hilco’s total compensation package for employees. Other rewards and benefits include cash bonuses, long term incentives, health insurance, accident and life insurance, and retirement benefits.

Hilco Global is an equal opportunity employer. Qualified candidates will be considered on merits and without regard to race, religion, color, national origin, sexual orientation, genetic information, marital status, gender, veteran, or disability status.

Hilco Global strives to comply with all applicable local/state regulations regarding displaying salary ranges. Any offered salary is determined based on relevant factors such as applicant's skills, job responsibilities, prior relevant experience, certain degrees and certifications and market considerations. In addition, Hilco Global is proud to offer a comprehensive, competitive benefits package, with options designed to help you make the best decisions for yourself, your family, and your lifestyle. Available benefits are based on eligibility. Our Total Rewards package includes a variety of medical and dental plans, vision coverage, disability and life insurance, 401(k) plans, and a robust suite of personal well-being benefits to support your mental health. https://hilcoglobal.com/careers-about/