Senior Director, Data and Analytics Transformation

Take your career to the next level! In the last few years our goal has been expansion, creating growth opportunities for many of our team members. Not only are we serious about growth, but we are also serious about helping our customers during hard financial times.

We take pride in providing solutions and offering a helping hand, not only to our customers but also to the communities we serve. As we continue to expand and grow into a national leader in consumer financing, we invite you to consider joining our team.

If you're passionate about making a meaningful impact in people's lives and bringing a personal touch to finance, we'd love to have you on board!###
** Position Summary
** The Senior Director, Data and Analytics Transformation leads the strategy, modernization, and delivery of the company's enterprise data, reporting, and analytics capabilities. This leader will transform how the organization produces, governs, and consumes data, moving from manual, reactive reporting to automated, governed, forward-looking, AI-enabled insight. The role owns the roadmap for the Snowflake-based data platform and the analytics layer above it, builds and develops a high-performing team, and partners with executive leadership to ensure data drives decisions across the business.

The ideal candidate combines deep technical fluency (SQL, Python, Snowflake, Claude Agentic AI) with executive presence, problem solving skills, financial services domain expertise, and a track record of leading large-scale data transformation.# #
** Duties and Responsibilities
**** Strategy and Transformation Leadership
*** Define and execute a multi-year AI-first data and analytics transformation strategy and roadmap aligned to enterprise objectives, and secure executive sponsorship and funding
* Lead the modernization of reporting and analytics from manual and ad hoc processes to fully AI-enabled automated, scalable, self-service solutions
* Develop business cases and present proposals for automated data and reporting solutions to the executive team, quantifying ROI, risk reduction, and efficiency gains
* Champion a data-driven culture, presenting evidence-based recommendations that improve business processes, credit performance, and customer outcomes
** Analytics, Reporting and Insight
*** Set the vision and standards for executive and operational dashboards, and oversee the build and enhancement of reporting across the enterprise
* Drive the evolution of reporting from descriptive to predictive and prescriptive, including forecasting, trend analysis, and forward-looking performance indicators
* Partner with C-suite and business leaders to translate strategic questions into analytical solutions, ensuring outputs are actionable and tied to business objectives
* Provide oversight and quality review of high-visibility ad hoc analyses supporting senior management and board-level decision-making
** Data Platform and Architecture
*** Serve as the executive owner of the data and analytics platform strategy, including Snowflake architecture, data modeling standards, and BI tooling
* Lead the Enterprise Data Warehouse development effort, including technical requirements, prioritization, release planning, and user acceptance testing
* Partner with Engineering, IT, Security, and Product to ensure the platform is scalable, secure, cost-efficient, and performant
* Ensure end-to-end data reconciliation and lineage from source systems through the reporting presentation layer
** AI and Automation
*** Define and lead the strategy for applying AI-enabled tools to reporting, documentation, automation, and analytical workflows
* Guide the team in building reusable skills, markdown-based documentation and instruction files, and agents that improve…