Job Description

Milestone Technologies is looking for a Data Analyst with experience with master data, reference data, and data management. The role is part of a client's Finance organization and supports the company's financial reporting needs. The position reports to the Sr. BI Analyst and involves researching new data sources, cleansing existing data, implementing processes to maintain data integrity, and data flow mapping. This role will dive deep into the data and be a finance data SME.

• Support a strong financial reporting infrastructure of global systems and processes involving all aspects of information management and technology for the organization
• Maintain master data and related reporting hierarchies specific to the business unit financial and management reporting
• Implement controls and processes to mitigate data quality risks including monitoring data quality results, reports, and dashboards
• Provide transparency to master data and reporting hierarchies via dashboards
• Create and support data quality analysis and automation
• Partner with technical teams on systems and data structures
• Responsible for assuring quality and trust in the data, supporting standard definitions for the organization to follow, and maintaining consistent use of data resources across the organization
• Assist with major data and organizational changes that impact reporting structures
• Provide guidance and assistance to the finance organization on data governance processes
• Develop various reports, dashboards, and analyses leveraging SQL, Excel, and Power BI

Skills

• Bachelor’s degree
• Minimum 4+ years of related business experience working with corporate data
• Ability to write SQL queries from scratch to pull datasets from databases for reporting and dashboard development
• Expert Excel skills and high attention to detail
• Experience with metadata, master data, reference data, and data management systems
• Passion for data accuracy and supporting governance and consistency
• Understanding of relational databases and hierarchical data schemes
• Experience with Business Intelligence tools, including Power BI
• Well-versed in the business uses of financial data, business terms, and the data elements related to financial transactions
• Quick Learner of business systems, data intersections, reporting, and organizational structure
• Perceptive of up and downstream impacts
• Self-starter able to prioritize across multiple projects with competing deadlines and motivated to promote change