Senior Financial Analyst

Job Description

Summary

The Senior Financial Analyst provides analytics and decision support at a corporate level supporting the executive staff as well as the broader finance community.  The Senior Analyst will be on a team responsible for the development of a shared reporting & analytics infrastructure as well as directly providing reporting, analysis, and insight to the executive teams based on that infrastructure. The successful candidate will be able to dialogue with business leaders about the top of mind questions the company has, go off and gather/develop the required datasets, apply a variety of techniques to analyze/test the business hypothesis, and then summarize back the findings at an executive level (with clear data/method driven substantiation).  This position has the potential to significantly influence the direction of the company and the financial performance. 

Responsibilities

• Access and Integrate information/data from a variety of sources and bring it together into a structured environment for analytics and reporting  

• Develop, maintain, and tune varying complexity databases to ensure availability and integrity of data 

• Automate integrations between data sources and processes to expedite availability of information, consistency in results, and minimize the cost structure to support the environment  

• Deploy a lightweight application for moderately skilled users to be able to access the underlying data in a self-service nature for ad-hoc information requests 

• Develop a standardized set of dashboards accessible via the network and mobile devices 

• Develop and Automate the delivery of standardized reporting to be used in Executive level presentations or distributed via email/mobile to end users 

• Partner with the leadership team and the broader finance/business community to stay abreast of current business concerns, potential opportunities, and information needs 

• Employ a variety of analytical techniques to discover, identify, and conclude analysis both reactively to leadership requests and proactively based on our own curiosity/desire to move the business 

• Contribute to the broader financial/Enterprise tools roadmap in partnership with Finance/IT leadership 

• Define and document core business metrics, definitions, and logic collaborating with the business teams 

• Deliver analysis and findings to leadership and business teams…often through formal presentation 

• Maintain knowledge and stays current of developments in the fields of technology, business intelligence, data warehousing, data science, and emerging technologies (machine learning, AI, etc.) 

Minimum Qualifications 

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, MIS or related

• 5+ years of systems / business analysis experience

• Ability to extract and integrate data leveraging technologies such as (SQL, Snowflake, ODBC, ETL Tools, Oracle, DB2, Access)   

• Familiarity with reporting / analytical apps such as (Power BI, Oracle BI, Tableau, SAS, Cognos, Bus Objects) 

• Ability to automate reporting/analysis as well as