Data Visualization Analyst Senior

M&T Bank • Buffalo, NY

67d • $97,869 - $163,115 • Hybrid

About The Position

The Banking Services Support Data & Analytics team is seeking a highly skilled Business Intelligence (BI) professional to support the department and division. This position will lead the development of high-impact dashboards, pilot emerging tools, and champion best practices in data storytelling. This position aims to transform how insights are communicated across the organization, enhancing data-driven decision-making and supporting strategic initiatives. Designs standards, templates and themes for dashboards/reports through an iterative design process and apply to descriptive, diagnostics, and predictive visuals that enable the business to make data informed decisions. Mentors less experienced BI team members.

Requirements

• Bachelor's degree and a minimum of 5 years of related experience, or in lieu of a degree, a combined minimum of 9 years higher education and/or work experience, including a minimum of 5 years related experience.
• Tactical experience with a minimum of one data visualization tool.
• Experience designing and developing advanced dashboards/reports and data visualizations.
• Expert knowledge of data visualization approaches.
• Experience incorporating data storytelling into visualizations.
• Experience using Structured Query Language (SQL) to analyze, extract, and transform data.

Nice To Haves

• Tactical experience with multiple data visualization tools including Power BI.
• Knowledge of data management concepts and terminology.
• Certification in data storytelling and/or data visualization tools.

Responsibilities

• Leverage expert BI platform skills on one or more platforms to incorporate advanced calculations, develop more advanced data flows and assemble complex consolidated dashboards/reports for presentations.
• Apply standards, templates and themes to create uniform sets of visuals for a given audience.
• Create templates for data dashboards/reports for use by data visualization team to support consistency and clarity across data visualizations.
• Implement identified best practices in navigating and publishing BI reports, providing access, managing permissions, and monitoring visualization usage by data users.
• Use knowledge of programming languages to work with data teams to query, structure and model data, as needed, for use in dashboards/reports.
• Use expert knowledge of business and technical metadata, data quality, and issue remediation to create accurate data models within BI tool(s).
• Drive business insights through the development of descriptive, diagnostic, and predictive reporting by selecting appropriate advanced visuals that identify trends and outliers.
• Mentor less experienced team members in the use of dashboard/report templates, data visualization best practices and facilitate learning opportunities.
• Work with business partners to conduct dashboard/report testing and recommend refinements.
• Participate in gathering visualization requirements from business stakeholders.
• Understand and adhere to the Company's risk and regulatory standards, policies and controls in accordance with the Company's Risk Appetite.
• Design, implement, maintain and enhance internal controls to mitigate risk on an ongoing basis.
• Promote an environment that supports belonging and reflects the M&T Bank brand.
• Maintain M&T internal control standards, including timely implementation of internal and external audit points together with any issues raised by external regulators as applicable.
• Complete other related duties as assigned.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Industry: Credit Intermediation and Related Activities
• Education Level: Bachelor's degree