Senior Analyst - Finance Data Strategy

Ally Financial • Charlotte, NC

204d • Onsite

About The Position

Ally's CFO Group is driving a comprehensive, multi-year finance transformation program. As we continue to build out the infrastructure to support the various transformation initiatives, we are looking for a talented Senior Analyst to help drive the CFO Data Strategy and successful execution of a finance data warehouse, which will establish a centralized data platform serving as a single source of truth for all finance data. The ideal candidate will have proven data management skills, prior finance experience, an ability to juggle competing priorities in a dynamic environment, and a passion for driving organizational value through data.

Requirements

• Bachelor's degree required
• 3+ years of demonstrated experience as a product owner or data analyst for data management disciplines in banking, finance, or related field (e.g., data ingestion, data consumption, BI/analytics, data quality, metadata, etc.)
• Programming experience in SQL and data warehouse platforms (AWS, Snowflake, Oracle) required
• Foundational knowledge of key finance, accounting, and treasury processes preferred (e.g., financial close and consolidation; financial planning and forecasting; financial management and regulatory reporting; treasury operations and cash management; asset and liability management; capital markets)
• Proven problem-solving skills, with a breadth of perspective and ability to 'connect the dots' even in areas outside one's primary subject matter expertise, and ability to reach beyond immediate sphere of influence to pull in stakeholders and drive expedient resolution
• Excellent organizational skills with ability to handle multiple competing priorities in a fast-paced environment, making trade-off decisions where necessary to best benefit the organization
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills
• Ability to proactively identify and manage risks

Responsibilities

• Responsible for supporting data analysis and management activities for the centralized finance data warehouse using Ally's Enterprise Data & Analytics standards
• Serve as a key liaison between the finance process teams and technologies on understanding, interpretation and documentation of business data needs for their workstream/domain and supporting a scrum team
• Support Finance Product Owners with data analysis, requirements, validation, epic / story development, status reporting and other tasks
• Guide finance data solutions, across data ingestion, consumption, analytics enablement, and sound data management controls
• Support teams in development of ‘execution playbook' deliverables, including business cases, change management, test planning, user adoptions, etc.
• Support the planning and delivery of the CFO Group's data driven transformation, and the implementation of the finance data solution

Benefits

• Time Away: Program starts at 20 paid time off days in addition to 11 paid holidays and 8 hours of volunteer time off yearly
• Planning for the Future: industry-leading 401K retirement savings plan with matching and company contributions, student loan pay downs and 529 educational save up assistance programs, tuition reimbursement, employee stock purchase plan, and financial learning center and financial coach access
• Supporting your Health & Well-being: flexible health and insurance options including medical, dental and vision, employee, spouse and child life insurance, short- and long-term disability, pre-tax Health Savings Account with employer contributions, Healthcare FSA, critical illness, accident & hospital indemnity insurance, and a total well-being program
• Building a Family: adoption, surrogacy and fertility assistance as well as paid parental and caregiver leave, Dependent Day Care FSA back-up child and adult/elder care days and childcare discounts
• Work-Life Integration: Mentally Fit Employee Assistance Program, subsidized and discounted Weight Watchers® program and other employee discount programs
• Other compensations: travel allowances, relocation assistance, a signing bonus and/or equity

What This Job Offers

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