Financial Data Analyst – BI & Forecasting

Socket.dev; Des Moines (IA); On-site; USD 70,000 - 95,000; Full time

Job summary

Ruan is seeking a Business Unit Support Analyst to prepares and analyzes data from various sources providing reliable conclusions that management can use to implement more effective operational strategies and monitors financial results in relation to budgeting and forecasting expectations.

Responsibilities include researching and analyzing key operational and financial metrics with BI tools, consolidating data against goals, performing ad hoc reporting, and guiding project teams on reporting

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree required, or an equivalent amount of education and related experience.
• 3–5 years of experience of financial data analysis and reporting is preferred.
• Strong analytical and problem solving abilities.
• Must have strong communication, written and oral, skills. Must have the ability to communicate ideas to others.
• Must be able to communicate analytical and process information to non-analytical staff.
• Excellent math skills with ability to compute rates, ratios and percentages.
• Must be proficient in workflow tools such as Sequel, Power BI or other reporting tools in addition to Microsoft Office skills in Word, Excel, PowerPoint.
• Travel is required for this position.

Responsibilities

• Research, review and analyze key operational and financial metrics utilizing business intelligence, dashboard applications and multiple external data sources. Identify data errors, discrepancies and reporting issues. Communicate results and recommendations to business partners and leaders from various functional areas.
• Consolidate and analyze financial data while comparing results to the company's goals, budgets and forecasts.
• Perform ad hoc reporting and analysis.
• Perform trend and variance analysis. Perform cost/benefit analysis and develop financial forecasts.
• Work with project teams and functional leaders to determine business reporting needs and requirements, develop and maintain appropriate documentation, and manage data analysis projects.
• Monitor and support enterprise adoption of common and consistent measurements and reporting tools to encourage data-driven decisions.
• Review current business processes and supporting data to identify opportunities to improve business practices and processes, directly impacting cost savings and productivity improvements.

Skills

Analytical skills

Communication skills

Problem solving

Data analysis

Microsoft Excel

Power BI

Sequel

Education

Bachelor's degree or equivalent experience

Tools

Microsoft Office Suite

Power BI

Sequel

Job description

Ruan is seeking a Business Unit Support Analyst to prepares and analyzes data from various sources providing reliable conclusions that management can use to implement more effective operational strategies and monitors financial results in relation to budgeting and forecasting expectations.

Responsibilities include researching and analyzing key operational and financial metrics with BI tools, consolidating data against goals, performing ad hoc reporting, and guiding project teams on reporting