Lead Finance Data Analyst - Enterprise Reporting
UL Solutions
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UL Solutions seeks a Lead Finance Data Analyst - Enterprise Performance Reporting to turn complex financial, operational, and business data into executive dashboards, KPI frameworks, and self-service analytics that improve decisions across the enterprise.
This hybrid role (3 days in office) is based in Northbrook, IL or Chicago, IL, offering high impact work connecting data to leadership actions and enterprise performance improvements.
Qualifications
- Bachelor’s degree in Finance, Accounting, Business Analytics, Data Science, Statistics, Mathematics, Information Systems, or related field.
- 5+ years of experience in business analytics, enterprise reporting, BI, financial reporting, performance management, or related work.
- Advanced proficiency in Microsoft Power BI and Microsoft Excel.
- Experience working with large, complex datasets.
- Strong data management, integration, and analysis skills.
- Ability to organize, analyze, validate, and connect information from multiple sources.
- Strong communication and presentation skills for technical and non-technical audiences.
- Experience creating dashboards, scorecards, executive reporting, and analytical solutions.
- Strong analytical, problem-solving, organizational, and stakeholder management skills.
Responsibilities
- Build executive dashboards, scorecards, enterprise reports, and KPI frameworks that leaders use to run the business.
- Standardize financial and operational metrics so reporting is consistent, trusted, and scalable.
- Design clear, intuitive reporting experiences that make performance easy to understand and act on.
- Partner with Finance and business teams to deliver reporting solutions that solve real business needs.
- Support management and executive reporting packages with timely, relevant insights.
- Analyze financial, operational, and business data to uncover trends, risks, opportunities, and performance drivers.
- Translate analysis into practical recommendations that help leaders move faster and make better decisions.
- Strengthen enterprise KPI structures and performance measurement practices.
- Bring together data from multiple systems and make it usable, reliable, and ready for reporting.
- Maintain reporting datasets and catalogs as trusted enterprise information sources.
- Improve data preparation, automation, and visualization to reduce manual effort and increase speed.
- Promote data quality, accuracy, and consistency across reporting processes.
- Work with IT and data teams to improve architecture, integration, and access to trusted data.
- Define, build, and launch reporting and analytics products that scale across the enterprise.
- Create self-service dashboards that give teams faster access to the answers they need.
- Drive adoption and continuous improvement of enterprise analytics capabilities.
- Identify opportunities to increase automation, efficiency, and business value.
- Collaborate with Accounting, FP&A, Operations, IT, and business leaders to align reporting with enterprise priorities.
- Present insights clearly to technical and non-technical audiences.
- Build alignment by connecting data insights to business decisions.
- Serve as a trusted advisor on reporting, performance measurement, and analytics practices.
- Coach analysts and business partners involved in reporting and analytics initiatives.
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Job description
Great decisions start with trusted data. In this role, you will help build the enterprise reporting and analytics engine that gives UL Solutions leaders the clarity to see performance, act faster, and run the business with confidence.
As Lead Finance Data Analyst - Enterprise Performance Reporting, you will turn complex financial, operational, and business data into executive-ready dashboards, KPI frameworks, and self-service analytics that improve decisions across the enterprise.
This is a high-impact role for someone who can connect the dots between data, business performance, and leadership action.
This is a full-time hybrid position (3 days per week in office) located at either our Northbrook, IL or Chicago, IL office.
- Build executive dashboards, scorecards, enterprise reports, and KPI frameworks that leaders use to run the business.
- Standardize financial and operational metrics so reporting is consistent, trusted, and scalable.
- Design clear, intuitive reporting experiences that make performance easy to understand and act on.
- Partner with Finance and business teams to deliver reporting solutions that solve real business needs.
- Support management and executive reporting packages with timely, relevant insights.
- Analyze financial, operational, and business data to uncover trends, risks, opportunities, and performance drivers.
- Translate analysis into practical recommendations that help leaders move faster and make better decisions.
- Strengthen enterprise KPI structures and performance measurement practices.
- Bring together data from multiple systems and make it usable, reliable, and ready for reporting.
- Maintain reporting datasets and catalogs as trusted enterprise information sources.
- Improve data preparation, automation, and visualization to reduce manual effort and increase speed.
- Promote data quality, accuracy, and consistency across reporting processes.
- Work with IT and data teams to improve architecture, integration, and access to trusted data.
- Define, build, and launch reporting and analytics products that scale across the enterprise.
- Create self-service dashboards that give teams faster access to the answers they need.
- Drive adoption and continuous improvement of enterprise analytics capabilities.
- Identify opportunities to increase automation, efficiency, and business value.
- Collaborate with Accounting, FP&A, Operations, IT, and business leaders to align reporting with enterprise priorities.
- Present insights clearly to technical and non-technical audiences.
- Build alignment by connecting data insights to business decisions.
- Serve as a trusted advisor on reporting, performance measurement, and analytics practices.
- Coach analysts and business partners involved in reporting and analytics initiatives.
- Promote reporting standards, metric consistency, and data governance best practices.
- Document KPI definitions, reporting methodologies, and business rules.
- Follow the UL Solutions Code of Conduct and all physical and digital security requirements.
- Perform other duties as assigned.
- Bachelor’s degree in Finance, Accounting, Business Analytics, Data Science, Statistics, Mathematics, Information Systems, or related field.
- 5+ years of experience in business analytics, enterprise reporting, BI, financial reporting, performance management, or related work.
- Advanced proficiency in Microsoft Power BI and Microsoft Excel.
- Experience working with large, complex datasets.
- Strong data management, integration, and analysis skills.
- Ability to organize, analyze, validate, and connect information from multiple sources.
- Strong communication and presentation skills for technical and non-technical audiences.
- Experience creating dashboards, scorecards, executive reporting, and analytical solutions.
- Strong analytical, problem-solving, organizational, and stakeholder management skills.
- Experience supporting Finance, FP&A, Accounting, EPM, or performance reporting functions.
- Experience with ERP, EPM, enterprise reporting platforms, SQL, data modeling, or automation tools.
- Experience developing KPI frameworks and management reporting processes.
- Knowledge of financial and operational performance metrics.
- Experience supporting executive reporting and decision support.
- Experience working in a global, matrixed organization.
Success means building reporting capabilities that make performance easier to see, understand, and improve, including:
- Consistent executive and management reporting built on standardized KPIs.
Join a team helping UL Solutions strengthen how the enterprise measures performance, tells the story behind the numbers, and turns insight into action.
If you enjoy building scalable reporting solutions, partnering with senior stakeholders, and making data more useful to the business, this role offers a visible opportunity to shape enterprise performance reporting.
Clearer visibility into financial and operational performance.
Faster access to trusted insights and self-service analytics.
Less manual reporting through automation and standardization.
Better business decisions across the enterprise.
We understand compensation is an important factor as you consider the next step in your career. The estimated salary range for this position is $150,000 - $175,000 and is based on multiple factors, including job-related knowledge/skills, experience, geographical location, as well as other factors.
This position is eligible for annual bonus compensation with a target payout of 20% of the base salary.
This position also provides health benefits such as medical, dental and vision; wellness benefits such as mental and financial health; and retirement savings (401K) commensurate with the standard rewards offered in each individual location or country.
We also provide full-time employees with paid time off including vacation (15 days), holiday and personal days (totaling 12 days), and sick time off (72 hours).
A global leader in applied safety science, UL Solutions (NYSE: ULS) transforms safety, security and sustainability challenges into opportunities for customers in more than 110 countries. UL Solutions delivers testing, inspection and certification services, together with software products and advisory offerings, that support our customers’ product innovation and business growth. The UL Mark serves as a recognized symbol of trust in our customers’ products and reflects an unwavering commitment to advancing our safety mission. We help our customers innovate, launch new products and services, navigate global markets and complex supply chains, and grow sustainably and responsibly into the future. Our science is your advantage.
At the core of our expanding organization is our Finance team. We’re a growing group of professionals, based around the world, who share ideas, work together and innovate to drive strategic growth and ensure financial integrity. Whether you’re an expert in taxes, treasury, accounting, financial planning and analysis or corporate strategy and development, we’re always looking for ambitious finance professionals who want to make an impact at a publicly traded company that’s leading the way in safety science. Join our team, be part of our global community and drive the success of our mission-driven organization.
Job Identification 11149
Job Category Finance
Posting Date 10/12/2026, 10:06 PM
Degree Level Bachelor's Degree
Job Shift Day
Locations 333 Pfingsten Road, Northbrook, IL, 60062, US 155 N. Wacker Dr., Chicago, IL, 60606, US
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