Senior BI & Analytics Leader – AI, Automation & Dashboards

firstam; Santa Ana (CA); On-site; USD 98,000 - 130,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical, dental, vision insurance

401k

PTO / paid sick leave

Job summary

First American seeks a Senior Business Intelligence professional to drive the division’s Reporting and Data Strategy, translating business needs into scalable reporting, analytics, automation, and AI-enabled solutions.

Under Finance Management, you will unify a decentralized reporting environment, build governance, and deliver integrated reporting to support strategic decisions across Operations, Technology, and other departments.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in a related field or equivalent combination of education and experience
• 5+ years of directly related experience
• Advanced Business Intelligence and data visualization
• SQL and data querying
• Data modeling and data integration
• Reporting automation
• Data validation and reconciliation
• Requirements gathering and business analysis
• Cross-functional project coordination
• Business process analysis
• AI and emerging analytics technologies
• Strong business and financial acumen
• Ability to translate between business and technical stakeholders
• Strong analytical problem-solving skills

Responsibilities

• Execute the division’s Reporting and Data Strategy through the development and implementation of BI, analytics, automation, and AI-enabled solutions
• Participate in the full solution lifecycle, including requirements gathering, design, development, testing, implementation, documentation, training, and support
• Design and develop BI assets including datasets, data models, queries, views, dashboards, reports, and analytical tools
• Develop a deep understanding of the division’s data environments, systems, reporting platforms, and data relationships, including how information can be accessed, connected, and integrated
• Connect and combine data across systems to create more complete, robust, and actionable reporting that is not available through individual data sources today
• Administer the division’s reporting governance framework, including maintaining an inventory of reporting assets and applying standards for development, documentation, ownership, data validation, and lifecycle management
• Evaluate new reporting requests against existing capabilities to reduce duplicate, inconsistent, or unnecessary reporting and identify opportunities to consolidate or enhance existing solutions
• Serve as a central point of coordination for reporting requests, partnering with Operations, Finance, Technology, and other departments to understand needs and facilitate the appropriate solution
• Translate business requirements into technical requirements and coordinate with BI, data, technology, and other reporting resources as needed to deliver solutions
• Partner with business stakeholders to establish and maintain consistent metrics, definitions, data logic, and sources of truth across reporting
• Identify and implement opportunities to improve reporting through automation, data integration, AI, and emerging technologies
• Monitor and troubleshoot reporting systems, data integrations, reconciliation issues, data quality, and production performance
• Develop and maintain documentation that improves transparency into data sources, calculations, business logic, reporting ownership, and processes
• Proactively identify reporting gaps and opportunities to improve the quality, efficiency, scalability, and business value of division reporting

Skills

BI & Analytics

SQL

Data modeling

Data integration

Reporting automation

Data validation

Requirements gathering

Cross-functional coordination

Business analysis

AI & analytics

Business acumen

Communication

Analytical thinking

Education

Bachelor’s degree or equivalent

Job description

First American seeks a Senior Business Intelligence professional to drive the division’s Reporting and Data Strategy, translating business needs into scalable reporting, analytics, automation, and AI-enabled solutions.

Under Finance Management, you will unify a decentralized reporting environment, build governance, and deliver integrated reporting to support strategic decisions across Operations, Technology, and other departments.