Business Analyst - Emerging Lead

Job Description - Business Analyst

The mission of the DOST Team is to support the strategic objectives of the Business Unit Finance line of business by enabling innovative data analytics, business analysis and reporting solutions. By streamlining the data delivery value-chain, our team delivers increased capabilities for advanced data management, data analytics and feature-rich reports that drive insight for our customers.

The ideal candidate will contribute to the execution of our roadmap working directly with our BU Finance business partners to understand their current data challenges, eliciting their requirements to define, scope, and deliver solutions that meet their business intelligence needs.

Responsibilities:

• Collecting business requirements from stakeholders for data analysis and reporting.
• Analyzing data to identify trends, patterns, and insights that support business decisions.
• Ensuring data accuracy, completeness, and integrity.
• Supporting data management policies, standards, and procedures.
• Design and build queries, reports, and dashboards using business intelligence tools adhering to established frameworks and standards.
• Actively participate in and influence discussions around reporting requirements, infrastructure needs, and design.
• Perform data analysis to drive high quality data solutions for our customers.
• Serve as end user support for the organizational user base.
• Follow, maintain and improve all documentation and procedures for report design and production.
• Sponsor teamwork and encourage collaboration.

Qualifications:

• 5+ years of experience as a business/reporting analyst, in a dynamic business environment in a techno functional role.
• Experience in writing, understanding and analyzing complex SQL Queries.
• Good understanding of business intelligence tools and data visualization concepts (i.e. Spotfire, Power BI, Tableau, QlikView or similar).
• Expertise in Data Wrangling (Joining, Appending, Transforming data).
• Good Understanding of Database Concepts.
• Self-motivated, well-rounded, analytical self-starter with ability to work in a dynamic, collaborative, Agile team environment with aggressive deadlines, regular releases and multiple priorities.
• Strong analytic skills with the ability to gather, synthesize, and organize data to solve complex problems.
• Excellent verbal, written communication and presentation skills.
• Ability to work collaboratively and effectively with business and systems personnel
• Familiarity with Finance and balance sheet concepts.