Senior Analyst, Data Analytics

LPL Financial • Fort Mill, SC

203d • $85,200 - $142,000

About The Position

At LPL Financial, we empower professionals to shape their success while helping clients pursue their financial goals with confidence. We are currently looking for a Senior Analyst, Data Analytics who has the thought leadership to identify a robust inventory of potential analytic solutions to mitigate risk, technical skills to develop and realize those analytic solutions, leadership skills to mentor peers, and collaboration and consulting skills to build relationships with Business Units. This role involves independently building code to access and extract data as well as creating visualizations to tell a holistic story.

Requirements

• Bachelor's degree in Data Science, Computer Science, Economics, Finance, Engineering, Statistics, Mathematics, Physics, Actuarial Sciences, or other highly quantitative discipline, plus 4+ years of experience or Master's Degree, plus 3+ years of experience.
• 4+ years of experience developing analytic solutions.
• Proficient in at least 1 visualization tool (Tableau, PowerBI, etc.).
• Proficient in at least 1 data analytic language (SQL, SAS, etc.).
• Proficient in at least 1 scripting language (SQL, Python, etc.).
• Experience developing Analytics solutions to support stakeholders while working with peers and management to refine and improve the deliverable.
• Experience following Agile 'sprints' project management methodology.
• Positive attitude with an appetite for learning, tenacious in overcoming obstacles as well as for seeking, embracing, and applying feedback.
• Demonstrated ability to identify problems, locate root cause, escalating with solutions in hand.
• Experience collaborating, consulting and building relationships with solution requestors (Business Units).
• Demonstrated ability to identify tactical and strategic solutions evidencing the ability to value progress over perfection and considering the big picture.

Responsibilities

• Develop & Deploy complex and continuous analytic solutions using descriptive and diagnostic analytics - with a future focus on predictive analytics.
• Work with Business Units to understand and interpret the request into a User Story and Acceptance Criteria.
• Identify appropriate data sources, perform data quality validations and highlight known limitations and assumptions.
• Access, mine, join and extract data from one or multiple data sources in LPL's data ecosystem.
• Leverage data visualization tools to communicate insights with the intent to drive action.
• Perform test case scenarios.
• Provide insight into any challenges with current data sources, reports, and processes with an intent to improve efficiency.

Benefits

• 401K matching
• health benefits
• employee stock options
• paid time off
• volunteer time off

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Mid Level
• Industry: Securities, Commodity Contracts, and Other Financial Investments and Related Activities
• Education Level: Bachelor's degree