Data Analyst

Milestone Technologies is hiring a Data Analyst to support a client’s Finance organization and its financial reporting needs. The role manages master and reference data, improves data quality and governance, maps data flows, and develops reports and dashboards.

Responsibilities:

• 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

Requirements:

• 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