About Kinetic Advantage
Founded in 2020, Kinetic Advantage is an independent floorplan financing company built by experienced automotive industry leaders. We combine decades of industry knowledge with an entrepreneurial approach, innovative technology and a commitment to helping independent dealers succeed.
Our success is built on strong relationships with independent dealers, auto auctions and industry partners. Through transparent communication, responsive service and simple, innovative solutions, we help create exceptional experiences for our customers and team members while supporting the broader independent automotive industry.
Role summary
The Senior Business Analyst adds analytical and delivery capacity to our Strategic Initiatives and Business Execution team. The role is split roughly 50% analytical project work and 50% process improvement. It requires deep, hands-on technical analysis: querying and modeling data, quantifying process performance, and turning findings into recommendations leaders can act on. It also requires listening closely to the people who run our processes every day, in both the field and the corporate office.
Key responsibilities
Analytical projects (~50%)
- Lead discovery, analysis, process mapping, and solution definition for complex, cross-functional strategic initiatives across the business.
- Own the analytical process for solving business issues, producing recommendations that are effective and well supported by data.
- Perform deep technical analysis, including writing and optimizing queries against operational and lending data, building analytical models in Excel and other appropriate analytical software, and validating data quality and lineage before drawing conclusions.
- Apply root cause, trend, cohort, and variance analysis to explain performance and quantify the impact of process changes, such as cycle time, volume, exception drivers, and cost.
- Build business cases and scenario models (e.g., capacity, staffing, throughput, and risk tradeoffs) with clearly documented assumptions and sensitivities.
- Seek input and feedback from field employees, corporate employees, and functional leaders through interviews, workshops, surveys, and observation of work as it is performed, and incorporate it into analysis, solution design, and prioritization.
- Partner with senior leaders to understand their objectives and identify opportunities to leverage data to help them reach their desired outcomes.
- Produce and deliver succinct presentations that communicate analytical findings to stakeholders and executives, including what was learned from field and functional input and how it sha