Director of Finance Insights & Business Analytics

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Omaha NEtime type:
Full time posted on:
Posted Todayjob requisition :
R Valmont Plaza Omaha Nebraska 68154
*** Why Valmont
***** We’re Here to Move the World Forward.
** Valmont impacts millions of people around the world every day, yet they might not realize the many ways. Our technology is helping feed the growing population, supplying the world with more reliable energy and access to renewables, enhancing connectivity in remote and urban locations to create a sustainable future and so much more. Simply put, Valmont is advancing agricultural productivity and reimagining vital infrastructure to make life better.

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* Fortune* 1000 company that respects hard work, honors diversity and invests in our employees as we focus on creating the world of tomorrow, today.
* We are the modern workforce*.
** A Brief Summary of This Position:
** The Director of Finance Insights & Business Analytics is a finance leader responsible for transforming data into actionable business insight that drives decision-making, performance management, and value creation across Valmont. This 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.

This role partners closely with executive leadership, FP&A, and business unit finance teams to identify critical business questions, translate them into analytical frameworks, and ensure leaders have clear, timely insight into financial and operational drivers. This role bridges gaps between multiple teams, driving consistency, scalability, and enhanced data usage across the finance organization.

Rather than owning technology platforms, this role
** owns the business problem**—working in close partnership with IT and the Data & Analytics Center of Excellence to ensure the right data, models, and tools are delivered to support strategic and operational decisions. 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).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.
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* Essential Functions:

*** Drive the development of executive-level insights and performance narratives that inform strategic, operational, and capital allocation decisions across the enterprise.
* Collaborate with IT and the Data & Analytics Center of Excellence to leverage existing data platforms (Databricks) while tailoring solutions for finance-specific needs.
* Partner with FP&A, business unit finance leaders, and operations to define value-driving KPIs, performance targets, and standardized decision frameworks.
* Ensure financial and operational data is fit-for-purpose for decision-making, influencing data design and prioritization through partnership with IT and analytics teams.
* 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…