FP&A Analytics Consultant

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Job Summary

The Corporate FP&A Team is responsible for leading the development and execution of enterprise financial growth strategy, annual planning, and performance management efforts. This role reports to the Manager of FP&A and will be a key contributor to enabling the team’s ability to execute by developing and implementing a comprehensive financial data analytics framework to support the finance community in enterprise planning and performance management.

Key Responsibilities Defining, Developing and Delivering Analytical Solutions

• Lead the definition, development, and delivery of innovative analytical solutions.
• Develop and implement comprehensive data analytics frameworks.
• Manipulate large data sets for business insights and implement solutions, specifically focused on advanced problems and models.

Identifying and Solving Business Problems

• Identify, analyze, and solve complex business problems and inefficiencies.
• Define business cases and analytics use-cases.
• Ability to discover opportunities in the business that could be addressed by leveraging Analytics.

Coordination and Customization

• Coordinate with senior business users and technical staff to customize high-level solutions.
• Determines methods and procedures on new assignments and may provide guidance to other personnel.

Communication and Advocacy

• Translate highly complex analytical and technical concepts to non-technical employees.
• Champion the use of statistics, distributions, and confidence intervals to make decisions based on data.

The Skills and Background You’ll Need Education

• Bachelor’s degree in Data Science, Business Analytics, or a related field required;
  Masters degree preferred.

Experience

• 5-7 years of experience in business intelligence, data science or any data organization.
• Hands‑on experience with SQL, R, Python, or equivalent analytic programming languages for data extraction/manipulation, preparation, interpretation and analysis of financial results.
• Solid understanding of data structure and system design concepts as well as experience with query and analysis tools.
• Advanced proficiency in data analytics and business intelligence tools to develop sound analytics‑based solutions for business problems. (Microsoft Power Platform and Azure experience preferred)
• Experience leading complex projects and delivering impactful analytical solutions with a demonstrated ability to manage and influence stakeholders at various levels of the organization.

Analytics Consultant III

Designs, develops, and delivers analytical solutions independently.

Analytics Consultant IV

Designs, develops, and implements comprehensive data analytics frameworks while identifying and prioritizing the most impactful solutions aligned with strategic goals.

Analytics Consultant V

Independently drives alignment and prioritization across a broad stakeholder audience to design, develop, and implement the most impactful analytical solutions.

Key Behaviors of a Successful Candidate

• Winning together:
  Works collaboratively with internal partners, product and technical teams to contribute to tools development and influence prioritization to help achieve department and company goals. Excellent verbal and written communication skills and the ability to build relationships with stakeholders at multiple levels within the organization.
• Driving success:
  Ability to manage processes and meet tight deadlines to meet the needs of the business while constantly pursuing exceptional results that take us to the “next level.” Effectively manages…