Senior business intelligence analyst job description

The Senior Business Intelligence Analyst will be responsible for transforming and modernizing the Corporate Finance and Accounting organizations, including how the team produces, manages, and utilizes data to open new possibilities and create value. This role is chiefly responsible for empowering the Corporate Finance and Accounting teams to improve productivity through the digital transformation from legacy spreadsheet outputs into next-generation automation and business intelligence. The ideal candidate will have a proven track record of cross-departmental collaboration to drive process improvements and more efficient outcomes.
Job Description

Major Responsibilities/Essential Functions:
Design, develop, and lead the implementation of next-generation financial support capabilities across the Corporate Accounting organization leveraging automation tools such as Alteryx.Implement solutions that automate, scale, and simplify existing legacy accounting and reporting challenges.Work independently and with team members to understand end-to-end business processes, influence priorities, and provide BI solutions to enable effective decision-making across the accounting team.Leverage project and change management skills to plan and manage scope, and proactively identify and resolve challenges.Prepare and automate value-added management reports and dashboards to support revenue analysis and tracking of key metrics.Drive continuous improvement of business processes and systems; bring best practices to revenue and cost of services recognition.Participate in ad-hoc projects as required.

Minimum Requirements:
Bachelor's degree (B.A./B.S.) with a major in accounting, finance, or related field2 - 5 years of prior accounting, finance, audit, or business analyst experience required Knowledge of financial and accounting concepts Analytical aptitude - strong problem-solving skills; math aptitude Standard office practices and accounting procedures on automated systems Advanced skills with BI and Automation tools such as Alteryx, RPA, Tableau, as well as advanced skills with Microsoft Excel and familiarity with other office products.Ability to proceed independently, prioritize, and manage multiple tasks requiring extensive follow-up and timely completion of projects with minimal instruction Demonstrated strong oral and written communication skills The physical demands described here are representative of those that must be met by an associate to successfully perform the major job responsibilities (essential functions) of this job. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the major job responsibilities.
While performing the duties of this job, the associate is:
Frequently required to use hands to finger, handle or feel objects, tools, or controls, and reach with hands or arms.Regularly required to talk or hear and read instructions on a computer monitor and/or printed on paper.Occasionally required to stand, kneel or stoop, and lift and/or move up to 30 pounds.Frequently required to view items at an extremely close range and must be able to adjust and readjust focus.

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Apply a user-centered approach to transform raw data into meaningful and useful information which will enable more effective, strategic, tactical, and operational insight and decision-making

1. Analyze and make recommendations for project implementations and maintenance. Must understand the data available in applicable business systems and be able to write queries. Deliver recommendations, improvement plans, as well as training materials.

2. Assist in the development and ongoing reporting of performance metrics and benchmarking, keeping our business leaders and key constituents informed of our progress towards business goals.

3. Manage timely flow of business intelligence information to users by meeting deadlines and being responsive to requests.

4. Provide technical support for existing reports, dashboards or other tools. In addition, maintains excellent documentation of systems and report methodologies. Maintains a library of model documents, templates or other reusable knowledge assets.

5. Communicate with internal customers, suppliers and others to stay abreast of industry or business trends. In addition, use effective communication and problem-solving techniques to facilitate team performance.
6. Conduct quality testing to ensure accuracy of data reported.
7. Serves as a liaison between Management and Technology project teams.
8. Other duties as needed.
Certification/Skills:
Experience defining metrics, dimensions and KPI's on Business Intelligence projects
Proficient in Microsoft Excel and Access
Strong critical thinking, analytic and problem-solving skills
Ability to work independently and effectively with prudent judgment and discretion at all times.
Experience with Cognos, Oracle and SQL database reporting tools
Experience in working with large volumes of data preferred.
Minimum Education:
Bachelor's degree in Science, Business or related field required.
Preferred Experience:
Master's degree in Healthcare Administration, Public Health, or related field.
Minimum Experience:
Five (5) years of system analysis, technical design, development and/or implementation experience, which includes 1 year of experience working with healthcare operations strongly preferred. May substitute required experience with equivalent years of education beyond the minimum education requirement.
Physical Requirements:
Exerts up to 20 pounds of force occasionally and/or up to 10 pounds frequently and/or a negligible amount constantly to move objects.
UTHealth does not currently have a mandatory COVID-19 vaccination policy. However, affiliated partners maintain their own immunization policies. All UTHealth employees who are assigned to work at a location that is subject to the affiliated partner's hospital, clinical offices, or agency are required to abide by UTHealth's rules and regulations, as well as the affiliate's rules and regulations, including COVID-19 vaccination requirements.
This position is subject to a mandatory COVID-19 vaccination policy of an affiliate institution.
Security Sensitive:
This job class may contain positions that are security sensitive and thereby subject to the provisions of Texas Education Code § 51.215

We are looking for a Senior Business Intelligence Analyst to join our new and growing analytics team within Cash App's Data Science Organization. This team is dedicated to enabling data self-service for the teams that respond to both regulatory and external/internal business partner inquiries. This is a new horizontal analytics discipline at Cash App, and we expect it to expand to support the broader set of analytics questions as it grows. The team is in the boot up process and is beginning to establish partnerships across the Cash business including a variety of stakeholders from Product, Engineering, Counsel, and Operations. We are looking to bring on technically strong analysts with an interest in becoming subject matter experts (SMEs) across wide surfaces within Cash App.

This analytics team will need to design solutions that increase automation as we scale. This team will partner directly with others within the organization to establish best practices and develop more advanced technical skills to power this journey.

We are looking for analysts with broader skill sets that include the ability to quickly understand the business context of a wide variety of products at Cash App, and the ability to help design more scalable and repeatable solutions to complex problems. Please expect an interview process which assesses both technical skills and broader business acumen.
In this role, you will:

Act as a point of contact for confidential data requests from the teams that respond to regulators, partners, and litigations received for Cash App

Interface with in-house and outside counsel teams to understand and deliver repeatable data access within defined timelines

Focus on designing self service tools that eliminate the need for multiple Ad-Hoc requests related to the same subject matter

Take ownership of proactively documenting team's knowledge to enable others to quickly solve the next challenge

Partner with the broader Data Science team to automate QA requirements for our self service tools (dabble in test driven design!)

Identify data and process improvement opportunities; propose solutions for the future and work cross functionally to implement those recommendations

Perform analyses on large data sets to provide insights and actionable recommendations that will help satisfy various legal, regulatory, and compliance requests

Work closely with Data Engineers and other cross-functional teams to build scalable data infrastructure to quickly satisfy a wide range of requests from our legal and compliance teams

Be a SME both technically and functionally, for Cash App data, identifying actionable insights that inform business processes and how we respond to regulatory requests

Maintain confidentiality regarding the work you do, and the nature of the requests