Senior Analyst, Data Analytics

What if you could build a career where ambition meets innovation? At LPL Financial, we empower professionals to shape their success while helping clients pursue their financial goals with confidence. What if you could have access to cutting-edge resources, a collaborative environment, and the freedom to make an impact? If you're ready to take the next step, discover what’s possible with LPL Financial.

Are you interested in solving complex data analytics puzzles? Are you solution-oriented and passionate about delivering results? Do you like thinking outside the box, learning new skills and problem solving? Do you have a successful track record in prior experience coaching, mentoring, and/or leading a team of analytic developers? Are you interested in being part of a team that is working to transform and do things more efficiently and effectively? Are you interested in being key member of an Analytics team focused on supporting all of Data Analytics and Reporting for Risk and Compliance? Are you interested in being part of the LPL Firm wide Analytics Center of Excellence (ACE) group focused on bringing together a network of analytic developers? Excited to learn more? If so, then this could be the role for you!

Job Overview:

We are currently looking for a Senior Analyst, Data Analytics who has the thought leadership to identify a robust inventory of potential analytic solutions to mitigate risk, technical skills to develop and realize those analytic solutions, leadership skills to mentor peers, and collaboration and consulting skills to build relationships with Business Units. We are looking for someone who can independently build code to access and extract data as well as create visualizations to tell a holistic story. 

Responsibilities:

• Develop & Deploy complex and continuous analytic solutions using descriptive and diagnostic analytics – with a future focus on predictive analytics.

• Business Understanding – Work with Business Units to understand and interpret the request into a User Story and Acceptance Criteria.

• Data Understanding – Identify appropriate data sources, perform data quality validations and highlight known limitations and assumptions.

• Data Preparation – Access, mine, join and extract data from one or multiple data sources in LPL’s data ecosystem. Highlight known limitations and assumptions.

• Story Telling – Leverage data visualization tools to communicate insights with the intent to drive action.

• Testing and Validation - Perform test case scenarios

• Continuous Improvement – Provide insight into any challenges with current data sources, reports, and processes with an intent to improve efficiency.

What are we looking for?

We’re looking for strong collaborators who deliver exceptional client experiences and thrive in fast-paced, team-oriented environments. Our ideal candidates pursue greatness, act with integrity, and are driven to help our clients succeed. We value those who embrace creativity, continuous improvement, and contribute to a culture where we win together and create and share joy in our work.

Requirements:

• Bachelor’s degree in Data Science, Computer Science, Economics, Finance, Engineering, Statistics, Mathematics, Physics, Actuarial Sciences, or other highly quantitative discipline, plus 4+ years of experience or Master’s Degree, plus 3+ years of experience

• 4+ years of experience developing analytic solutions

Core Competencies:

• Technical Proficiency – Proficient in at least 1 visualization tool (Tableau, PowerBI, etc.), and;

• Technical Proficiency – Proficient in at least 1 data analytic language (SQL, SAS, etc.), and;

• Technical Proficiency – Proficient in at least 1 scripting language (SQL, Python, etc.).

• Operational Excellence – Experience developing Analytics solutions to support stakeholders while working with peers and management to refine and improve the deliverable

• Operational Excellence – Experience following Agile “sprints” project management methodology

• Leadership & Mentoring – Positive attitude with an appetite for learning, tenacious in overcoming obstacles as well as for seeking, embracing, and applying feedback

• Strategic Agility – Demonstrated ability to identify problems, locate root cause, escalating with solutions in hand

• Stakeholder Relationship Management – Experience collaborating, consulting and building relationships with solution requestors (Business Units) and ultimately creating results for