Company Overview

Bridgestone Americas, Inc. (BSAM), headquartered in Nashville, Tennessee, and Bridgestone Europe, Middle East and Africa (BSEMEA), headquartered in Brussels, Belgium, operate collectively as a “Bridgestone West” strategic region. This region services the strategic business needs of teams across the Americas, Europe, Middle East and Africa. BSAM and BSEMEA are subsidiaries of Bridgestone Corporation, globally headquartered in Japan. Bridgestone and its subsidiaries develop, manufacture and market a wide range of Bridgestone, Firestone and associate brand products and solutions to address the needs of a broad range of customers and industries.

Data & Analytics

The Lead, Business Analyst is responsible for integrating data analytics into the internal audit lifecycle to provide risk-focused insights supporting the audit plan and enterprise risk management. This role involves performing and delivering risk-focused analytics, which include analyzing large data sets, creating descriptive and predictive models, developing dashboards, and implementing audit automation solutions.

The position reports into the Internal Audit Analytics Manager and requires collaborating with the Internal Audit team and business partners to provide thought leadership and guide the design and development of complex analytical models and digital solutions.

The position will be based in Nashville working a hybrid schedule, Tu-Th in office.

• Lead and deliver analytics-as-a-service engagement for areas of audit (i.e., planning, analytics, etc.) by understanding enterprise data, business processes, and business needs.
• Demonstrate thought leadership to solve and provide digital solutions to address key business challenges and derive meaningful insights from data to decision-making.
• Support the Internal Audit Analytics Manager to design and implement digital solutions with high impact by focusing on improving the efficiency and effectiveness of the audit process, identifying novel risk-focused insights, and optimizing the end-user experience of dashboards and other analytical solutions.
• Lead the design and development of analytic and automation solutions to query, mine, and analyze large complex data sets leveraging data analytical tools (e.g., Alteryx, Tableau, Power BI, Python, etc.).
• Hands-on project leadership, including defining project goals and milestones, prioritizing and delegating tasks within the DA team to ensure timely and effective delivery, and training and guiding lower-level team members.
• Keep abreast of the latest advancements in analytics tools and technologies. Serve as a key advisor to audit leadership by identifying opportunities to enhance data acumen and drive digital transformation for internal Audit department.
• Foster relationships with audit leadership and stakeholders to develop thorough understanding of business requirements and communicate work progress and results to both technical and non-technical audiences.
• Lead the governance and operational the administration of AuditBoard, i.e., site configuration, error handling, regional audit teams onboarding and training, user/role management.

• Bachelors degree in a relevant area (e.g., Accounting, Analytics, Business, Finance, Information Technology, MIS).
• 5-8+ years of working experience in digital/data technologies, internal audit, investigations, internal controls, information technology, data analytics, or risk management fields.
• Proven technical expertise and previous hands-on experience with any of the following software tools: Data visualization tools (e.g., Tableau, Tableau server, Power BI, etc.); Data query/analytics tools (e.g., SQL, Alteryx, Alteryx server etc.); Programming and predictive tools (e.g., Python, R, etc.).
• Prior experience working with Audit/Finance/legal teams.
• Experience with Amazon Redshift, SAP ECC and S/4 HANA.
• Ability to work with large complex data sets from multiple data sources in de-centralized data environments.
• Sound independent judgement, prioritization, and decision-making skills. Excellent critical thinking and problem-solving skills. Strong self-initiative, comfortable working with ambiguity and limited managerial involvement.

Nice to Have:

• Experience in Python and SAP Data
• Experience with Auditboard management

At Bridgestone, you are Free to Be

We believe people can only provide superior service and quality to others when they bring their whole self to work. We believe in championing all perspectives, individuals and teams because we understand the importance of seeing the world and our business through many different lenses. We are building a team as diverse as the world we serve. So, show us what you are made of, because who you are is what we need.

What we offer

At Bridgestone, what really matters is to foster co-creation opportunities and empowering you to be creative and curious to make mobility safer, more efficient, and more sustainable for future generations. Whatever role you fill, when you represent Bridgestone, you are a valued teammate, and part of our larger mission to “Serve Society with Superior Quality”, for that, we offer you more than just a competitive compensation; we will provide you:

• A supportive and engaging onboarding experience to ensure a smooth transition into our team.
• The opportunity to develop and grow, through training and regular mentorship.
• Corporate Social Responsibility activities.
• A truly global, dynamic and challenging work environment.
• Agility and work/life effectiveness and your long-term well-being.
• A diverse and inclusive team.

Bridgestone is proud to be an Equal Employment Opportunity employer. It is our policy to consider for employment all individuals regardless of age, color, national origin, citizenship status, physical or mental disability, race, religion, gender, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity and/or expression, genetic information, veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by federal, state or local law.

Employment Eligibility

If hired, a Form I-9 Employment Eligibility Verification must be completed at the start of employment. Temporary work authorization or the need for sponsorship may disqualify you from employment.