Director of Finance Data & Analytics

15000 Valmont Plaza
Omaha Nebraska 68154

A Brief Summary Of This Position

The Director of Finance Data & Analytics plays a leadership role in shaping and executing the enterprise wide data and analytics vision for financial decision making s position designs and delivers scalable, professional tools, dashboards and reporting solutions for leadership at multiple organizational levels, ensuring a unified view of key business drivers. The incumbent leads cross-functional teams and collaborates with stakeholders across finance, the IT organization, and the broader business units to translate strategic priorities into actionable data insights.

Gaining these insights requires translating business needs into data requirements, scaling IT’s foundational data work, and ensuring financial stakeholders have timely, accurate, and actionable insights through dashboards. By acting as a finance resource, this role bridges gaps between multiple teams, driving consistency, scalability, and enhanced data usage across the enterprise. This position requires a data science mindset—an ability to understand how data can be structured, modeled, and leveraged to inform predictive analytics, process automation, and emerging technologies such as Chatbots, Microsoft Co-Pilot, and Robotic Process Automation (RPA).

A core focus of this role is creating intuitive, scalable, and visually impactful dashboards that empower finance and business leaders to make better, faster decisions as well as developing tools and sustainable methods to improve productivity. The ideal candidate combines technical expertise in data modeling, AI, visualization, and integration with strong business acumen to bridge the gap between raw data and strategic insight.

Essential Functions

• Drive the strategic development of scalable, enterprise-wide leadership dashboards and reporting ecosystems (e.g., Power BI), ensuring alignment with organizational priorities and executive decision-making needs.
• Collaborate with IT and the Data & Analytics Center of Excellence to leverage existing data platforms (Databricks) while tailoring solutions for finance-specific needs.
• Lead cross-functional alignment on key performance metrics and reporting standards, ensuring consistency, transparency, and strategic relevance across business units and corporate functions.
• Oversee the documentation and optimization of finance-related data architecture, identifying opportunities to scale IT infrastructure for broader business and financial transformation.
• Provide oversight between business units and finance, ensuring operational data is translated into meaningful financial insights.
• Champion the integration and data transformation from various structured and unstructured sources, ensuring finance has clean, reliable data for analysis.
• Identify data gaps and coordinate with IT, finance, and business stakeholders to improve data quality, governance, and accessibility.
• Support finance-driven data science and automation initiatives, providing the foundational data models and insights needed for advanced analytics and RPA.
• Act as enterprise subject matter expert to multiple stakeholder groups, ensuring financial leaders and business partners can effectively leverage the organization’s data and technology investments.
• Serve as a subject matter expert for data analysis within finance
• Stay ahead of emerging trends in data analytics and automation, proactively identifying opportunities to enhance finance’s analytical maturity and digital capabilities.
• Lead the design and implementation of enterprise automation framework

Other Important Details About The Role

This position exercises autonomy while reporting in a matrixed environment (to both the functional and business teams). The ability and desire to navigate competing priorities and execute in a fast-paced, dynamic environment is vital. The individual must demonstrate business acumen specific to the teams they support while driving best practices in financial data and analytics. Individuals are expected to learn and utilize technological tools and resources to drive continuous improvement in our planning and forecasting processes.

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