Location: Mc Lean,VA, USA
Contract
Rate: up to $53/hr W2
Data Analyst Specialist
This position is within SF CFO Change management group of the broader SF Finance organization. The Single-Family Finance team is responsible for accounting, business decision support for respective business segments, financial results analysis, forecasting, profitability & performance analysis, as well as planning, budgeting and expense management.
Our Impact:
Our team is responsible for leading requirements analysis, data analysis, and user acceptance testing for finance and accounting applications. We coordinate with project teams across divisions and are instrumental in resolving application issues during financial close. Additionally, we will be assisting the management with developing project schedules, resource allocation, project costing and project status reporting.
Your Impact:
In this role as a Data Analyst Senior, you will be leading data requirements analysis, data analysis, understanding the existing systems and document dataflow and lineage for all financial accounting applications. Your responsibilities will include:
• Defining/Reviewing business requirements to capture customer needs. Facilitate data requirements and data flow analysis and resolve obstacles that emerge along the way.
• Work closely with different teams across the organization to understand business needs, identify relevant data sources, and translate data insights into actionable strategies.
• Work with other IT professionals, such as database administrators and data architects, as well as business analysts.
• Recommend best practices for database design, standards, guidelines, and procedures.
• Create/Review logical and physical data models using tools like data modeling software and entity-relationship diagrams.
• Validate that data is structured and modeled effectively so it can be used and understood.
• Capture and analyze data requirements and translate complex business needs into data solutions.
• Gather data from various sources, including databases, APIs, and applications, then and prepare data for analysis.
• Develop comprehensive reports summarizing key findings and actionable insights, presenting them to stakeholders through presentations and meetings.
• Write complex SQL queries to extract data from relational databases and manage data structures to ensure data integrity.
Qualifications:
• Bachelors Degree in business or Accounting related field
• Typically has 5-8 years extensive data analysis related experience.
• SQL experience in the most recent project experience with the following databases DB2/Oracle/Sybase/SQL server/Mongo
• Demonstrated data/business analysis with all aspects of the project lifecycle using Agile project methodology.
• Ability to support multiple concurrent efforts/projects in various capacities (lead one or more efforts while supporting others)
• Experience with all aspects of Agile/Modern delivery methodology
• Python experience will be a plus
• Scrum/Agile certification will be a plus
Keys to Success in this Role:
• Demonstrated leadership skills and customer service skills
• Excellent interpersonal and communication skills.
• Proven ability to learn new business concepts and skills quickly.
• Strong attention to details with proven analytical and problem-solving skills.
• Able to understand business needs and determine potential solutions.
• Strong verbal and written skills, including the ability to facilitate effective meetings and to develop and deliver presentations/materials to various levels of audiences.