Centric Consulting is a consulting firm that values collaboration and a vibrant culture. They are seeking a Business Data Analyst to interview stakeholders, develop business definitions, and create visualizations to support data-driven decision-making.
Responsibilities:
- Interview stakeholders for business process use cases requiring analytics; prioritize with business stakeholders
- Develop a value-chain from scratch: identify major business functions and their workstreams
- Deconstruct existing reports into their constituent attributes and measures
- Develop business definitions and metric formulations from business stakeholder interviews
- Conduct visualization design sessions where you are hands-on demonstrating client’s data in a visualization tool
- Write visualization design specifications and ensure they are correctly implemented by developers
- Ensure developed visualizations are high quality and comply standards around font, color, whitespace or other branding elements
- Design semantic layer organization that will be visible to end-users
- Assist with light data validation, especially comparing the developed solution with legacy reports
- Document mapping of business definitions to data model elements
- Review existing business requirements: UML information models, business and metric definitions, analytics use cases and visualization specs
- Analyze source data Interact with business stakeholders to determine how to handle data quality and data governance concerns
- Develop and document SQL queries to extract data from the source system
- Communicate SQL specifications to ETL developers and validate the result of their implementation
Requirements:
- Data steward or other data governance responsibilities
- Strong written and verbal communication
- Experienced interviewing and facilitating with VP level business stakeholders
- Performed data visualization development in a modern tool like Tableau or Power BI
- Developed requirements documentation, strong written communication
- Mid-level SQL for data analysis
- Worked with Excel Pivot tables
- Participated in data validation work 7+ years of experience around the skills mentioned above
- Extensive experience in a specific industry vertical such as insurance or financial services is a plus
- Business process improvement experience is a plus
- Experience working on data strategy or governance work is a plus