Business Analyst, Manager, BDOADVANTAGE
About The Position
BDO is seeking energetic self-starters who can devise creative and imaginative solutions for the challenges and opportunities facing an Assurance practice built for the 21st century. The focus is exclusively on the design and delivery of tools that aid collaboration with colleagues and clients, direct attention to critical matters, and integrate with automated workflows. The innovation portfolio is designed to be people-first, supporting professionals in performing effective, efficient, and technology-enabled work that is evaluative, insightful, and impactful. As a member of the BDO Advantage team, the role involves designing, testing, and implementing new solutions to help engagement teams and clients focus on key items, while also acting as a catalyst for the firm’s audit innovation efforts. The culture is collaborative, flexible, inclusive, curious, and growth-oriented, with accountability to each other and to the goal of modernizing professional work. The approach to business problems is characterized by originality. The successful candidate will be fearlessly creative, imaginative, curious, organized, and collaborative within a multi-disciplinary network of professionals at the forefront of analytics and technology R&D, and comfortable in a fast-paced, high-energy environment.
Requirements
- Bachelor’s degree in Accounting, Finance, Computer Science, Statistics required, and four (4) years or more years of accounting, finance, analytics, or model generation experience, required
- OR in lieu of a degree, six (6) or more years of accounting, finance, analytics, or model generation experience, required
- Experience with data visualization tools, required
- Proficient in Microsoft Excel, Word and PowerPoint, required
Nice To Haves
- Master’s degree in related field, preferred
- Data Analytics or other related experience, preferred
- Demonstrated initiative in learning, adopting, and/or applying innovative approaches and technology, preferred
- Certified Public Accountant license, preferred
- Alteryx Designer certification and/or other analytics certifications, preferred
- Certified Information Systems Analyst certification, preferred
- Experience with Power BI, Alteryx, SQL and/or Python, preferred
- Can read, interpret, and/or have some understanding of Power Query, M language and DAX, preferred
- Working knowledge of accounting and audit methods, preferred
- High level of curiosity and eagerness to learn
- Ability to think critically to solve problems
- Strong written and verbal communication skills
- Excellent organizational and analytical skills
- Demonstrates attention to detail while also understanding the big picture
- Ability to work effectively in a team setting
- Positive attitude and willingness to take on challenging assignments
- Can take initiative and self-direct in the absence of detailed guidelines
- Comfortable managing deadlines for multiple deliverables and thrive in a fast-paced, open environment
- Demonstrated ability to effectively lead teams and developing others
Responsibilities
- Works with industry leaders to brainstorm analytic ideas, prioritize features, define scope, and iterate with continuous feedback from industry leaders and pilot teams
- Leads and develops a growing team of highly motivated analytics and automation professionals
- Manages analytics projects and workflows with increasing levels of complexity
- Applies working knowledge of business concepts to analytical and visualization routines in Power BI, including data models, queries, DAX formulas, and report visuals
- Designs and develops standardized and customized data transformation and automation workflows using tools like Alteryx, Python and SQL
- Develops and deploys data analytics techniques, tools and templates to improve audit quality, as well as enhances engagement efficiency and acceptance of emerging methods
- Ensures data analytics dashboards are easy to use, conform to internal requirements, and provide value to engagement teams and clients
- Collaborates with stakeholders from Professional Practice; Quality Control; National IT; National Innovation; and BDO Global teams as needed
- Applies knowledge of financial data systems to ensure our data model is structured appropriately for repeatable, reusable analytics routines
- Furthers BDO’s innovation efforts and personal development by devoting 15-20% of time to projects involving emerging technology, including but not limited to advanced analytics, research and development activities and other forward-looking projects and experiments
- Monitors engagement team feedback and incorporating iterative improvements into existing audit data analytics routines
- Develops and conducts training sessions for individual data analytics routines that are clear, engaging and hands-on with examples
- Additional responsibilities and projects as required
Benefits
- ESOP company, offering participants a stake in the firm’s success through beneficial ownership and a unique opportunity to enhance their financial well-being.
- Qualified retirement plan
- Comprehensive compensation and Total Rewards benefits offerings.
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Manager
