Senior Data Analyst FP & A

SCOPE:

This position plays a pivotal role in supporting the Finance Department and Business Units in driving data analytics and business reporting. The ideal candidate will have a strong analytic mindset, excellent communication skills, and a passion for delivering high-quality insights to support decision-making. This position reports to the company’s Senior Director of Finance. There will be a significant amount of collaboration with business leader(s) and the IT team. Additionally, the role will routinely be working with other members outside the department in collaboration, training, process improvement/development and financial analytic support roles.

SIGNIFICANT ACTIVITIES & DELIVERABLES

• Thought partner for financial management and analytic support to business unit leaders
• Transform data into charts, tables, or format that aids effective decision making
• Develop ad hoc and recurring reporting packages for various stakeholders throughout the organization that identify financial and non-financial performance indicators and create recommendation for improvement when appropriate
• Support the development of benchmarks into the company’s scorecards and performance reporting including Operational as well as financial performance metrics.
• Analyze financial and operational data to identify trends, opportunities, and provide meaningful insights
• Synthesize findings, produce appropriate visualizations, and produce reports to tell a databased and audience-appropriate story
• Utilize Strategic thought processes, market data, internal data to support and develop strategic recommendations
• Provide support and guidance to finance team members on best practices for data analysis and reporting
• Work closely with finance, operations, and IT teams to gather requirements and ensure alignment
• Build strong business acumen to understand Operations and Sales needs and translate those into succinct data visualization and reports
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams to identify process improvement opportunities within finance operations
• Organizes, transforms, validates, and integrates internal data sources to support analyses
• Ensure accuracy of reports through understanding financial elements and identify factors contributing to these results
• Contributes to the development of script libraries and version control systems to automate, scale, standardize, and expand data science and analytics capabilities
• Enhance and improve organization’s data governance practices with a focus on data quality, consistency, and availability across the organization
• Support exploration of machine learning and artificial intelligence around software leveraged by finance team for planning and analytics

LEADERSHIP & TEAM REACH

• Work as a part of the finance team ensuring internal and external customer needs are handled with an emphasis on customer service
• Maintain interaction with the peers and cross functional team members
• Assist in maintaining updated process/procedure documentation
• Become a thought partner for Business Unit leaders
• Understand and live our Core Values

SKILLS & QUALIFICATIONS

• BA/BS Degree in Data Science, Computer Science, Finance, ore related field
• 3+ years of experience in data analysis, data science, or business intelligence role
• Demonstrated experience independently managing analytics requests end-to-end
• Demonstrated ability to transform loosely developed questions or problems into clear, actionable insights
• Excellent communication and interpersonal skills, with the ability to collaborate effectively across teams
• Strong working knowledge of database structures and tools : Experience with relational databases (SQL) and integrating data from various data sources; Experience with Business Intelligence Tool (Tableau, Power BI, etc)
• Substantial familiarity with data storytelling through dashboards and visualization
• Capability to understand business and operating environment of a company

PHYSICAL & MENTAL DEMANDS

• Operates in a professional office environment.
• Regularly required to stand, walk, sit for long periods of times, talk, and hear.
• Repeating motions that may include the wrists, hands and/or fingers, with the ability to reach with hands and arms.
• This position requires the ability to occasionally lift office products and supplies, up to 20 pounds.

COMPANY OFFERED BENEFITS

• As Christensen continues to fuel exponential growth, we pursue to offer a diverse portfolio of benefits coupled with our compensation and bonus incentive programs. A few elements of our benefit programs include:
• Health Insurance Benefits:
  • Medical, Dental, Vision, plus Ancillary Plans.
  • Flexible Spending Accounts for Health and Dependent Care, and Health Savings Accounts.
  • Company provided long term disability and up to $50,000 of life insurance.
• 401(k) plan with a generous company contribution.
• Paid time off in addition to 7 company paid holidays.
• Parental Leave Program.
• Employee Assistance Program.
• Employee Recognition Program.
• Employee Referral Bonus Program.