Strategic Data & Financial Analyst

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Description Of Job
About the Job The Strategic Data & Financial Analyst provides strategic, data-driven analysis to support ADC contractors and agency operations. The role focuses primarily on financial forecasting, modeling, and decision support, with additional responsibility for broader operational and case-related data analysis across agency programs. The person in this role will work in a complex data environment that includes systems currently undergoing redesign.

The responsibilities of this position include extracting, cleaning, validating, interpreting, and presenting data, as well as providing informed input on system functionality and data structure during the transition. Clear communication of assumptions, limitations, and confidence levels associated with analysis is essential.

The Strategic Data & Financial Analyst contributes strategic insight to agency financial planning and policy discussions by helping leadership understand how legislative actions, funding decisions, or policy changes may impact agency finances, operations, and programming.

This is a dynamic position where duties will evolve, and the position should anticipate fulfilling some other duties as assigned that are reasonable and necessary to fulfill ADC’s mission.

This position is primarily remote, with occasional on-site requirements at the Denver office as needed.

• Pull, validate, clean, and analyze data directly from ADC data sources and other systems, with an explicit expectation that the data environment is imperfect and requires judgment, reconciliation, and documentation of assumptions.
• Build and maintain financial forecasts, scenario models, and calculators that account for non-linear cost drivers, caseload trends, contractor utilization, and uncertainty arising from legislative, policy, or programmatic changes.
• Provide data-driven analysis that helps ADC leadership understand risks, key drivers, and second-order effects associated with financial and operational decisions.
• Develop dashboards and reporting tools using Tableau to support analysis and decision-making.
• Conduct broader data analysis beyond finance, including trends in case types, workloads, and other programmatic datasets that inform planning and risk assessment for the agency.
• Work closely independently with data, and closely with staff to interpret data, respond to program-level questions, and support data-informed decision-making by translating complex analysis into clear, practical insights.
• Clearly communicate and present analytical findings, assumptions, and limitations to internal staff and, as needed, external stakeholders, tailoring information to the audience and context.
• Contribute analytically to financial planning and policy discussions by assessing how legislative actions, funding decisions, or policy proposals may impact agency finances and programmatic operations, without owning policy advocacy, budget approval, or legislative engagement.
• Explicitly document assumptions, limitations, confidence levels, and known data gaps in forecasts and analyses, and communicate how those factors should inform executive decision-making.
• Remain current on emerging analytical tools, platforms, and methods, including developments in automation and artificial intelligence, and apply new technologies thoughtfully and responsibly to improve data quality, analysis, and decision support.
• Perform other duties as assigned.

You are a highly analytical, self-directed professional who works effectively both independently and collaboratively. You move comfortably between raw data, financial models, and strategic discussions and communicate clearly with an awareness of your audience. Your prior experience will allow you to work independently as the sole data professional on a team.

You exercise sound judgment and discretion when working with sensitive data and understand the importance of confidentiality, accuracy, and defensibility. You approach tools and technology thoughtfully, balancing innovation with security, risk awareness, and responsible data use.

You manage competing…