Job Description
The role is ideal for a highly-motivated individual who functions with confidence and expertise in a dynamic and evolving business environment. Candidates must have great communication and interpersonal skills, strong analytical ability, and an ability to balance the details against the bigger picture. The ideal candidate possesses solid business analysis skills and a strong drive to innovate, and is naturally inclined to take on new challenges.
Essential duties include but are not limited to the following:
- Providing accurate, timely, and actionable financial reporting and key business metrics to operating teams, gaining key insights into spend trends with meaningful and actionable analyses.
- Participating in budgeting, forecasting, and annual and long-range planning in support of key departments.
- Assisting the team to prepare executive and management presentations.
- Building and maintaining reports, models, and dashboards around key metrics to monitor and ultimately improve sales performance and understanding.
- Performing ad hoc analysis for executives as required.
- Developing and implementing a higher level of automation into regular processes and driving the use of dashboards to deliver key results and metrics for action by business leaders.
Job Requirements:
- Self-motivated and able to learn hands on with new technology.
- Must be able to balance multiple priorities.
- Ability to think strategically and balance a broad range of internal and external factors when identifying problems, proposing solutions, and making decisions.
- Comfortable navigating large quantities of data.
- Vision, initiative, and creativity in approaching technical challenges.
- Ability to build relationships and work effectively with both technical and non-technical colleagues at all levels.
- Strong work ethic with a focus on meeting expected deadlines.
Education/Experience:
- Bachelor's degree required ideally within a financial discipline.
- 1-3 years of experience with an emphasis on business analytics, business intelligence, financial analysis or similar business functions.
- Experience working with MS Excel utilizing pivot tables, macros, formulas and report formatting.
- Experience working with business intelligence software platforms (Cognos is a plus)
- Data Modeling a plus
- SQL querying experience a plus.