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Job Description
Summary
Minimum Starting Salary: $72,304.37 per year
The City of Waco Seeks:
The City of Waco is seeking a motivated and detail-oriented Strategic Business Analyst to join our team. The ideal candidate must be able to provide detailed analysis and reports. This position will assist in planning and directing the department’s strategic and long-range goals.
Minimum Qualifications:
Required:- Bachelor’s Degree in Business, Statistics, Finance, Computer Science, Analytics, or a related field and 3 years of directly related experience or an equivalent combination of education and experience.
- MBA, MS, or other graduate degree may be substituted for work experience.
- Valid Texas Driver’s License Upon Hire.
Position Overview:
Under general supervision, the Strategic Business Analyst utilizes complex data to provide support for strategy formulation, business development, and forecasting. This position will be responsible for understanding the department's data, providing detailed analysis and reports, preparing and presenting presentations, managing regulatory reports, managing projects such as monitoring of dairies or asset management system setup, and aiding leadership in drawing insight from the data, including creating dashboards, visualization, algorithms, and business tools for use across the department. This position will assist in planning and directing the department's strategic and long-range goals; conducting organizational reviews to identify strengths and weaknesses and to evaluate operational effectiveness; making recommendations based on emerging trends, regulatory trends or changes, internal business process improvement; and ensures compliance with state and federal regulations and City policies and goals.
Essential Functions:- Gathers and evaluates complex data, develops and executes quantitative analyses, and cross-checks results to identify potential inconsistencies or limitations.
- Defines detailed functional requirements, process flow diagrams, and business cases, including gap and impact analysis.
- Establishes and supports business activities related to reporting, including audit planning cycle and metrics.
- Creates interactive dashboards, visualization, and business tools for use across the organization.
- Reviews effective planning, staff management, and resource allocations; establishes performance metrics and reporting to ensure operating efficiencies are achieved.
- Provides analysis in areas such as Key Performance Indicator performance targets & goals, resource allocation, and customer services.
- Manages contracts and provides analysis, including overall trends.
- Identifies data sources that will support reporting requirements and manages integration workflows to source, transform, and load data into consumable datasets for reporting and analysis.
- Implements data quality processes to ensure the integrity and accuracy of data sources and reports by leveraging automation and monitoring capabilities to identify anomalies proactively.
- Assists members of the City and other stakeholders with ad-hoc and self-service reporting capabilities.
- Manages/assists with managing regulatory, asset, and/or other projects.
- Summarizes insights from analysis, clearly communicates analytical findings in a cohesive story, and articulates an argument to upper management.
- Identifies, communicates, and executes new opportunities related to the department's business functions.
- Reviews and assists with developing departmental policies and procedures and short and long-term objectives.
- Performs mathematical calculations, statistical computations, and financial and cost analysis.
- Comprehends and makes inferences from written material to forecast and evaluate.
- Shall be required to respond after-hours, including holidays and weekends, in the event of a departmental or City-wide need.
- Performs other related duties as assigned.
- Complies with all policies and standards.
- Supports the relationship between the City of Waco and the general public by demonstrating courteous and cooperative behavior when interacting with residents, visitors, and City staff; maintains confidentiality of work-related issues and City information
- Lives the City of Waco Values: equity & inclusion, excellence & innovation, integrity, people, and teamwork.
The City of Waco offers a complete benefits package for eligible employees including; health, dental, vision, Employee Assistance Program (EAP), Flexible Spending Accounts, life insurance, long term and short term disability, retirement, deferred compensation plans, holidays, vacation, sick leave, credit union and savings bonds.
To learn more about the benefits offered, visit our Benefits page.
Why Work For Waco:- Meaningful and challenging work
- Make a difference and improve communities
- Competitive Salary and Benefits
- Full Range of Benefits, including Health, Dental, Vision, Disability, and Life Insurance
- Mandatory TMRS Retirement Plan with a 2:1 City Match
- Education Assistance Program
- Paid Parental Leave
- Employee Assistance
- Longevity Pay
- And More!
- Chance to do work you are passionate about
- Desire to give back
Closing Date/Time: 11/27/2025 12:00 PM Central -
ABOUT THE COMPANY
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City of Waco
Show moreWaco is centrally located in the heart of Texas on the I-35 corridor midway between Dallas-Fort Worth and Austin. This progressive and diverse city with a vibrant community spirit offers major attractions, museums, recreation, and abundant shopping to more than 140,000 residents. Waco is the 25th largest city in Texas and the county seat of McLennan County.
Waco is not only briming with Texas history, economic opportunity, and a rich variety of cultural experiences, it is also a major seat of high learning within three major colleges in its city limits including Baylor University, Texas State Technical College and McLennan Community College.
The city is also the birthplace of Dr. Pepper, the Texas Ranger Hall of Fame Museum and the Texas Sports Hall of Fame. Waco boasts one of the biggest and best municipal parks in Texas, Cameron Park. While the park is located in the middle of downtown situated on the Brazos and Bosque River it hosts numerous races, triathlons, boat races and much, much more.
Governance and Organization
Waco is a home rule city with a council-manager form of government. The City Council is comprised of a Mayor, elected at-large, and five City Council members representing single-member districts, all serving two-year terms. The City Council sets the tax rate, approves the budget, appoints members to City boards and commissions, enacts City ordinances, and appoints the City Manager, City Attorney, City Secretary, and the Municipal Court Judge.
The City has a strong Financial Management Policy that guides the operation and delivery of quality City services, contributes to excellent AA+ and Aa1 bond ratings, and maintains an unassigned fund balance reserve in the General Fund equal to 28% of current year budgeted expenditures. The City of Waco has more than 1,600 employees and a total operating budget of over $400 million.
The City provides a full range of municipal services including a regional airport, animal services, building inspections, code enforcement, convention and visitors bureau, emergency management, housing and community development, economic development, fire, public health, library, municipal court, parks and recreation, planning, police, public works, Texas Ranger Hall of Fame Museum, utilities and zoo operations.
The City Council and City Manager are committed to the mission of providing exemplary municipal services for citizens and visitors in a collaborative and transparent manner while honoring the public’s trust. Waco values include providing excellent and innovative services, promoting equality and inclusion, focusing on teamwork, investing in people and always doing the right thing.
With the City of Waco, you will find our home; where everyone belongs and thrives as move forward together.
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