Data Analyst - Planning & Analysis

About the job

Overview

Being good neighbors – helping people, investing in our communities, and making the world a better place – is who we are at State Farm. It is at the core of how we operate and the reason for our success. We’re moving with urgency to become a Next Gen Good Neighbor, with technology that strengthens human connections and enhances the customer experience. As an employee, you’ll spend less time navigating systems and more time applying judgment, empathy, and expertise in the moments that matter most.

Planning & Analysis is looking for two Data Analysts to advance how we use data, analytics, and technology to support enterprise planning and financial decision making. These roles will combine analytical thinking, technical expertise, and business acumen to turn complex data into actionable insights, build and improve data solutions, and expand the use of analytics across planning and expense processes.  We are looking for Data Analysts who can solve business problems with data, but who is technical enough to build the data solutions needed to do it.

Work Arrangement: Hybrid

• Currently 35% in-office, moving to 50% in-office (10 days/month) in 2027
• Must live within a reasonable daily commuting distance to one of the Hub locations:  Bloomington IL, Dunwoody GA, Richardson TX or Tempe AZ
• In-Office collaboration days: Tuesdays and Thursdays, flexible
• Daily flexible start time, M-F

Responsibilities

• Apply Analytics to Business Decisions: Analyze complex internal and external data, apply statistical and analytical techniques, model scenarios, identify trends and opportunities, and translate findings into actionable business insights.
• Advance Planning & Allocation: Develop analytical approaches that leverage market opportunity, historical performance, geography, seasonality, and other factors to improve planning, goal-setting, and allocation decisions.
• Advance Expense Analytics & Decision Support: Analyze expense, budget, forecast, operational, and general ledger data to understand cost drivers and trends, evaluate financial trade-offs, and support business decisions.
• Build & Improve Data Solutions: Use coding, automation, and data transformation techniques to build, enhance, and maintain analytical tools and data solutions that improve accuracy, adaptability, and connectivity across business processes.
• Connect Data, Technology & Business Needs: Partner across business teams, data owners, and technology partners to identify and understand data sources, align definitions, validate data, and translate business needs into effective and scalable solutions.

Qualifications

• 3-7 years Data Analyst experience with strong analytical and critical-thinking skills, ability to work with complex datasets, identify patterns and opportunities, and translate analysis into business recommendations.
• Experience using SQL, Python, or similar programming tools for data extraction, transformation, analysis, and automation.
• Experience with data visualization and business intelligence tools, such as Power BI, and the ability to communicate complex information clearly.
• Understanding of data structures, data modeling, transformation, validation, and data quality principles.
• Ability to collaborate across business and technical teams to identify data needs, evaluate potential data sources, develop effective analytical solutions, and translate between technical concepts and business needs.
• Intellectual curiosity and learning agility, with an interest in exploring new analytical techniques, technologies, and data sources.
• Ability to balance multiple priorities, take initiative, and independently drive work from problem identification through solution delivery.

Preferred Experience

• Experience working with financial or business data, including expense, budget, forecast, cost-benefit or general ledger data and the financial acumen to translate that information into business insights
• Experience working with production, market opportunity, or related data to support annual planning and target setting.
• Experience with Oracle or similar enterprise planning, budgeting, or ERP solutions; experience supporting a planning or financial-system transformation is a plus.
• Experience with cloud-based data platforms, modern data environments, or developing analytical solutions within large, complex data environments

Preferred Education

Bachelor's Degree in Data Analytics, Business Analytics, Finance, Statistics, Economics or Computer Information Systems or other related field.

What Success Looks Like You’ll combine technical data expertise, analytical thinking, and business acumen to help teams understand not only what happened, but why, what may happen next, and what actions to take—while building stronger data and analytical capabilities for the future.

Our Benefits

Because work-life-balance is a priority at State Farm, compensation is based on our standard 38:45-hour work week!

• Potential starting salary range: $80,600 - $120,000

• Starting salary will be based on skills, background, and experience

• High end of the range limited to applicants with significant relevant experience

• Potential yearly incentive pay up to 10% of base salary

At State Farm, we offer more than just a paycheck. Check out our suite of benefits designed to give you the flexibility you need to take care of you and your family!

• Get Paid! On top of our competitive pay, you are eligible for an annual raise and bonus.
• Stay Well! Focus on you and your family’s health with our robust health and wellbeing programs. State Farm pays most of your healthcare premium, and we offer multiple healthcare plan options, including a high deductible plan. All medical plans provide 100% coverage for in-network preventative care, AND you and your family have access to vision, dental, telemedicine, 24/7 mental health professionals, and much more!
• Develop and Grow! Take advantage of educational benefits like industry leading training programs, top-notch tuition assistance programs, employee resource groups, and mentoring.
• Plan Ahead! Plan for those big moments in life with benefits like fertility/IVF/adoption assistance, college coaching, national discount programs, interactive monthly financial workshops, free financial coaching, and more. You can also start a savings account or consider financing through our State Farm Federal Credit Union!
• Take a Little “You” Time! You will have access to our generous time off policies designed so you can plan around holidays, family events, volunteering, or just to take a relaxing day off. With the opportunity to initially earn up to 20 days annually plus parental leave, paid holidays, celebration day, life leave (40 hours/year), bereavement leave, and community service/education support days, there will be plenty of time for you!
• Give Back! We offer several ways to give back through our Matching Gift Program, Good Neighbor Grant Program, and the Employee Assistance Fund.
• Finish Strong! Plan for retirement using free financial advisors and a 401(k) plan with company contributions of up to 7% of your salary.

Visit our State Farm Careers page for more information on our benefits, locations, and the hiring process of joining the State Farm team!