Senior Data Analyst

Vanguard•Malvern, PA

4d•Hybrid

About The Position

The Senior Data Analyst supports PPFA within BSRG, which serves as the global owner for enterprise bank relationships across Vanguard’s Fund, Treasury, and corporate organizations. PPFA helps drive financial value, control costs, and optimize provider performance through fee analytics, invoice and contractual oversight, dashboards, scorecards, and performance-metric tracking and trending. The role applies financial and business acumen to analyze banking-service costs, contractual terms, budgets, forecasts, and performance. It develops and owns analytical processes and reporting solutions, turns complex findings into actionable recommendations, and works across internal teams to account for financial, accounting, procurement, supplier, contractual, and operational impacts. The analyst also provides guidance and development to junior analysts. Vanguard’s hybrid working model applies to the majority of crew members and is designed to support flexibility alongside in-person learning, collaboration, and connection. Vanguard is not offering visa sponsorship for this position.

Requirements

At least five years of related work experience in data analytics, finance, accounting, procurement, supplier management, or a comparable discipline.
Undergraduate degree or an equivalent combination of training and experience.
Strong analytical, problem-solving, project-management, and communication skills, including the ability to translate complex information into business recommendations.
Demonstrated ability to manage analytical work from requirements gathering and research through implementation and recurring process ownership.
Ability to build effective cross-functional relationships and communicate clearly with business partners and senior leaders.

Responsibilities

Evaluate banking-service costs, contractual terms, budgets, forecasts, and performance results to identify trends, variances, risks, efficiencies, and cost-saving opportunities.
Engage internal partners to understand business strategy, questions, and goals; structure requests, translate requirements into analytical project approaches, and lead projects through completion.
Delegate tasks and provide tactical and strategic guidance to peers.
Partner with Corporate Accounting, FP&A, ESM, Accounts Payable, relationship management, and other teams to consider financial, accounting, procurement, contractual, supplier, and operational impacts in analytical recommendations.
Acquire and compile structured and unstructured data, and verify its quality, accuracy, and reasonableness.
Analyze historical data using advanced methods to surface trends and insights, and validate analytical techniques used by other analysts.
Use Excel, Power BI, Tableau, SQL, and similar tools to analyze complex data and develop scalable reporting solutions, models, dashboards, and scorecards.
Prepare and deliver visualizations and internal presentations that translate insights into actionable solutions for business partners.
Develop, own, and manage recurring analytical or reporting processes.
Standardize and automate analytical and operational workflows, strengthen controls and transparency, document methodologies, and promote scalable, consistent, repeatable practices.
Mentor, coach, train, and develop junior data analysts; expand and share business and analytics knowledge and document best practices.
Participate in special projects and perform other duties as assigned.