Work Schedule
Standard (Mon-Fri)

Environmental Conditions
Office

Job Description

This is a newly-created Finance Data Analyst position within the Finance Transformation Team supporting our Specialty Diagnostics Group (SDG). The Financial Data Analyst is responsible for data completeness, hierarchy maintenance and accuracy across reporting systems, ensuring successful project integrations and improvements. The position requires good business partnering skills and collaboration with IT, project teams, Controllership, and FP&A business partners

Responsibilities:

• Use MS Excel, MS Power BI, SQL, DAX, and Cognos to extract, validate, and interpret data to meet the analytical needs of the business
• Uses analytical skills to address and proactively seek answers to user questions and issues relating to data integrity and reconciliations between reporting systems.
• Support the period close activities by performing system tie-outs, variance analysis, processing financial adjustments, and communicating changes to team members
• Drive optimization of standardized reporting, analysis, and procedures ensuring the highest levels of accuracy, consistency, and efficiency using PPI (Practical Process Improvement)
• Innovate using technology and business process knowledge to develop efficient automation of routine tasks.
• Collaborate with other functional groups (finance, IT, accounting, shared services etc...) to establish validation requirements and develop test plans for system changes.
• Effectively work withmatrix org and global business partners across time zones.

• Experience with in-depth financial modeling as well as proven analytical and statistical problem solving skills, including data handling and relational database programming
• Excellent skills with MS Excel and Microsoft Office suite.
• Proven track record to make logical assumptions, analyze and communicate variances to management, and connect data from various systems
• Strong written communication skills, along with clear and concise verbal skills, are required. The candidate will have the aptitude to construct easy to understand analysis and presentations.
• Must have the capacity to coordinate and prioritize work and demonstrate effective time management.
• Skills with Oracle products, Power BI, and IBM Cognos or other business intelligence software a plus
• Experience with Python, DAX, VBA, PowerShell or other scripting language a plus
• Knowledge of ERP systems (E1, JDE, SAP) and Data Warehouses a plus
• Understanding of Agile/Scrum methodology
• Non-Negotiable Hiring Criteria:
• 3+ years of progressive Finance experience
• Self-motivated, independent problem solver with excellent financial intuition and drive to explore the interaction of data across systems
• Bachelors degree in Math, Accounting, Finance, Economics, Business or other relevant background
• Advanced qualification a plus. (CPA, MBA, or MS)