Finance BI Developer

BDO USA•Chicago, IL

About The Position

The Senior Finance BI Developer is a role within the Finance department responsible for designing, building, and supporting high-quality reporting, analytics, and automation solutions that enable informed business decisions. This position partners with internal stakeholders to understand reporting and analytics needs, translates business requirements into scalable semantic models, reports, SQL queries, Power Query transformations, and Power Automate workflows, and applies Power BI, SQL, M code, data modeling, automation, and visualization best practices. The role serves as a experienced technical contributor within the Finance BI team, helping deliver reliable solutions, improve development consistency, support documentation and training, and provide technical guidance to other developers while escalating broader architecture, strategy, and governance decisions to the Lead Developer or Finance BI leadership.

Requirements

Bachelor's degree, required
Five (5) or more years of experience within Data Analytics, Business Intelligence or Application Development, required
Strong SQL skills required
Two (2) or more years of experience with Data Modeling, Semantic Model Definition or Star Schema Construction, required
Three (3) or more years of experience with Power BI, required
Strong SQL query development skills, including joins, aggregations, views, data validation, troubleshooting, and performance-aware query design, required
Ability to interact effectively with people at all organizational levels and communicate complex concepts to senior and non-technical audiences
Capacity to build and maintain strong relationships with internal and client personnel
Solid organizational and excellent verbal and written communication skills
Ability to successfully multi-task while working independently or within a group environment
Comprehensive knowledge of data design, data modeling, data management, and data visualization
Strong analytical and research skills related to the retrieval and organization of high volumes of information
Ability to work in a deadline-driven environment, and handle multiple projects simultaneously
A team player who takes initiative, supports team standards, and contributes to shared team success
Excellent organizational and time management skills

Nice To Haves

Experience working with Finance data, preferred
Experience developing, maintaining, and troubleshooting Microsoft Power Automate workflows to support reporting, approvals, notifications, data collection, and process automation, preferred

Responsibilities

Exercises diligence with financial information by maintaining accurate results, safeguarding sensitive data, and supporting trusted business decisions
Develops, tests, deploys, and supports Power BI reports, semantic models, and related analytics solutions for Finance stakeholders
Troubleshoots issues related to report performance, refresh failures, data discrepancies, access issues, and user-reported defects
Maintains and enhances existing Power BI assets, including refactoring legacy reports, adding documentation, improving usability, consolidating duplicate reports, and reducing technical debt
Builds visualizations that take complex information and make it more accessible, understandable, and usable to derive insights and enable better business decisions
Creates complex Data Analysis Expression (DAX) measures to support the data analysis needs of visualizations
Develops and maintains SQL queries, views, and data extraction logic to support Power BI semantic models, reports, and data validation activities
Uses Power Query and M code to clean, transform, combine, and shape data from multiple sources into reliable, reusable reporting-ready datasets
Partners with business stakeholders to gather requirements, clarify reporting objectives, and translate business needs into effective technical solutions
Applies established Finance BI development standards, data modeling practices, reusable templates, and governance expectations to ensure consistency and quality across deliverables
Contributes to reusable components, templates, and documentation that improve development efficiency and support team standards
Leverages AI technology responsibly to improve efficiency and insights while protecting data privacy, security, and compliance requirements
Designs, builds, monitors, and troubleshoots Power Automate workflows that support reporting processes, data collection, approval workflows, notifications, and operational efficiencies across Microsoft 365 applications
Understands business requirements and design data models to transform raw data into meaningful insights and compelling stories
Applies branding standards, intentional design choices, color palettes, and report design standards to create clear, consumable, and professional reports
Maintains an up-to-date knowledge of Power BI updates and data visualization approaches
Creates and maintains data model documentation explaining calculations, parameters, relationships, security design, and refresh logic
Develops training documentation and user guidance for Power BI reports and related analytics solutions
Collaborates with data engineers and other technical partners to obtain data needed to support Finance BI data models
Manages workspaces, permissions, deployments, and Power BI apps in accordance with team standards and access control expectations
Design and support complex Row Level Security (RLS) within Power BI
Supports onboarding, training, and mentoring of team members on Power BI development practices, documentation expectations, and report support processes
Performs peer reviews of Power BI reports, semantic models, DAX measures, data transformations, and documentation before deployment
Ability to work after hours and weekends as needed
Other duties as assigned