Finance BI Developer

BDO USA; Detroit (MI); On-site; USD 90,000 - 120,000; Full time

Job summary

BDO USA is seeking a Senior Finance BI Developer to design, build, and support Power BI reporting and analytics for the Finance department.

You will translate business requirements into scalable models, optimize SQL and DAX calculations, and guide the team in governance and best practices while partnering with stakeholders across the organization.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree required.
• Five or more years of experience in Data Analytics, Business Intelligence or Application Development.
• Strong SQL skills required.
• Three+ years of Power BI experience.
• Experience with Power Automate workflows preferred.

Responsibilities

• Designs, builds, and supports Power BI reports and semantic models.
• Develops and tests SQL queries, views, and data extraction logic.
• Troubleshoots report performance and data discrepancies.
• Maintains and enhances Power BI assets and documentation.
• Collaborates with stakeholders to translate reporting needs into technical solutions.

Skills

Data analytics

BI development

Stakeholder communication

Education

Bachelor's degree

Tools

SQL

Power BI

Data modeling

Power Automate

Job description

Job Description

The Senior Finance BI Developer is a role within the Finance department responsible for designing, building, and supporting high-quality reporting, analytics, and automation solutions that enable informed business decisions. This position partners with internal stakeholders to understand reporting and analytics needs, translates business requirements into scalable semantic models, reports, SQL queries, Power Query transformations, and Power Automate workflows, and applies Power BI, SQL, M code, data modeling, automation, and visualization best practices. The role serves as a experienced technical contributor within the Finance BI team, helping deliver reliable solutions, improve development consistency, support documentation and training, and provide technical guidance to other developers while escalating broader architecture, strategy, and governance decisions to the Lead Developer or Finance BI leadership.

Job Duties

• Exercises diligence with financial information by maintaining accurate results, safeguarding sensitive data, and supporting trusted business decisions
• Develops, tests, deploys, and supports Power BI reports, semantic models, and related analytics solutions for Finance stakeholders
• Troubleshoots issues related to report performance, refresh failures, data discrepancies, access issues, and user-reported defects
• Maintains and enhances existing Power BI assets, including refactoring legacy reports, adding documentation, improving usability, consolidating duplicate reports, and reducing technical debt
• Builds visualizations that take complex information and make it more accessible, understandable, and usable to derive insights and enable best business decisions
• Creates complex Data Analysis Expression (DAX) measures to support the data analysis needs of visualizations
• Develops and maintains SQL queries, views, and data extraction logic to support Power BI semantic models, reports, and data validation activities
• Uses Power Query and M code to clean, transform, combine, and shape data from multiple sources into reliable, reusable reporting-ready datasets
• Partners with business stakeholders to gather requirements, clarify reporting objectives, and translate business needs into effective technical solutions
• Applies established Finance BI development standards, data modeling practices, reusable templates, and governance expectations to ensure consistency and quality across deliverables
• Contributes to reusable components, templates, and documentation that improve development efficiency and support team standards
• Leverages AI technology responsibly to improve efficiency and insights while protecting data privacy, security, and compliance requirements
• Designs, builds, monitors, and troubleshoots Power Automate workflows that support reporting processes, data collection, approval workflows, notifications, and operational efficiencies across Microsoft 365 applications
• Understands business requirements and design data models to transform raw data into meaningful insights and compelling stories
• Applies branding standards, intentional design choices, color palettes, and report design standards to create clear, consumable, and professional reports
• Maintains an up-to-date knowledge of Power BI updates and data visualization approaches
• Creates and maintains data model documentation explaining calculations, parameters, relationships, security design, and refresh logic
• Develops training documentation and user guidance for Power BI reports and related analytics solutions
• Collaborates with data engineers and other technical partners to obtain data needed to support Finance BI data models
• Manages workspaces, permissions, deployments, and Power BI apps in accordance with team standards and access control expectations
• Design and support complex Row Level Security (RLS) within Power BI
• Supports onboarding, training, and mentoring of team members on Power BI development practices, documentation expectations, and report support processes
• Performs peer reviews of Power BI reports, semantic models, DAX measures, data transformations, and documentation before deployment
• Ability to work after hours and weekends as needed
• Other duties as assigned

Education

• Bachelor's degree, required

Experience

• Five (5) or more years of experience within Data Analytics, Business Intelligence or Application Development, required
• Experience working with Finance data, preferred

Software

• Strong SQL skills required
• Two (2) or more years of experience with Data Modeling, Semantic Model Definition or Star Schema Construction, required
• Three (3) or more years of experience with Power BI, required
• Strong SQL query development skills, including joins, aggregations, views, data validation, troubleshooting, and performance-aware query design, required
• Experience developing, maintaining, and troubleshooting Microsoft Power Automate workflows to support reporting, approvals, notifications, data collection, and process automation, preferred

Other Knowledge, Skills & Abilities

• Ability to interact effectively with people at all organizational