Data Analyst

Busey Bank

Busey Bank

IT, Data Science

Champaign, IL, USA

Posted on Apr 15, 2026

Position Summary

The Data Analyst will be responsible for assisting the Business Intelligence Manager in managing, analyzing and monitoring the organization’s data to ensure integrity and quality. Using criteria provided by data stakeholders, they will interpret data to provide meaningful insight, facilitate data-based decision making, and to bring value to the lines of business.

Duties & Responsibilities

  • Work with lines of business to identify and solve data integrity and quality issues, recommend data quality improvement opportunities, and to establish new metrics for tracking performance of critical data elements
  • Assist lines of business with interpreting data and creating reports
  • Analyze large datasets to pinpoint trends and patterns in order to extract meaningful insight Provide technical expertise on data storage structures, data mining, and data cleansing Analyzing and interpreting results using statistical tools and techniques
  • Establish and maintain automated data quality monitoring systems and report on their performance.
  • Research and recommend machine learning and artificial intelligence techniques for delivering actionable insights and to create accurate predictions
  • Provide metadata reports for management, such as data quality scorecards and exception reports
  • Work with IT to establish, monitor and maintain data ETL processes and provide support for enterprise data warehouse and reporting platforms
  • Leverage third party data analysis solutions and vendors to enhance data reporting, validation and quality processes Analyze existing tools and databases and provide software solution recommendations
  • Monitor and maintain the reporting environment, including data sources, security, and metadata.

Education & Experience

Knowledge of:

  • Familiar with databases and data management process
  • Familiar with programming and database languages like SQL, Python, and R
  • Data mining and statistical analysis knowledge preferred
  • Machine learning and artificial intelligence concepts knowledge preferred

Ability to:

  • Work with technical and non-technical business owners to achieve results in alignment with strategic priorities
  • Self-starter with great communication skills (verbal and written)

Education and Training:

  • Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Data Analytics or related field or equivalent education/work.
  • Experience with IBM Cognos and Power BI preferred
  • Experience in data management (metadata, data architecture, data governance, data quality, data modeling).
  • Experience in the financial services industry preferred

Compensation and Benefits

Salary offered is based on factors, including but not limited to, the job duties, required qualifications and relevant experience, and local market trends. The role may be eligible for bonus or incentives based on company and individual performance.

(Base Pay Range: $71,000 - $105,000/annually)

Busey provides a competitive Total Rewards package in return for your time, talents, efforts and ultimately, results. Your personal and professional well-being—now and in the years to come—are important to us. Busey’s Total Rewards include a competitive benefits package offering 401(k) match, profit sharing, employee stock purchase plan, paid time off, medical, dental, vision, company-paid life insurance and long-term disability, supplemental voluntary life insurance, short-term and long-term disability, wellness incentives and an employee assistance program. In addition, eligible associates may take advantage of pre-tax health savings accounts and flexible spending accounts. Visit Busey Total Rewards for more information.

Equal Opportunity

Busey values a diverse and inclusive workplace and strives to recruit, develop and retain individuals with exceptional talent. A team with diverse talent, working together, is essential to Busey’s commitment of delivering service excellence. Busey is an Equal Opportunity Employer including Disability/Vets. Visit Busey.com/Careers to learn more about Busey’s Equal Opportunity Employment.

Unsolicited Resumes

Busey Bank, and its subsidiaries, does not accept any liability for fees for resumes from recruiters or employment agencies ("Agency"), without a binding, written recruitment agreement between Busey and Agency describing the services and specific job openings ("Agreement"). Busey may consider any candidate for whom an Agency has submitted an unsolicited resume and explicitly reserves the right to hire those candidate(s) without any financial obligation to the Agency, unless an Agreement is in place. Any email or verbal contact with any Busey associate is inadequate to create a binding agreement. Agencies without an Agreement are requested not to contact any associates of Busey with recruiting inquiries or resumes. Busey respectfully requests no phone calls or emails.