Sr. Business Data Analyst Consultant

CAI Software, LLC • Salt Lake, UT

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About The Position

CAI Software is seeking a Senior Business Data Analyst Contractor to join their Finance Team, who will be a key member of the CAI Business Operations team. The Senior Business Data Analyst Contractor will develop the business analytics and reporting as it pertains to supporting the strategic direction of the business unit. The ideal candidate will have strong domain knowledge and analytic and communication skills, working with cross-functional business partners who manage and support the business. The role requires the ability to gather and analyze sales, operations, financial and other business data, create industry standard and customized summary views of the business, identify trends and elicit key insights, and make sound business recommendations. Success will be rooted in timely and crisp communications, cross-functional collaboration, attention to detail and delivering on commitments.

Requirements

• 5+ years of previous financial or business analytic experience
• Bachelor's Degree in economics, accounting or finance required.
• Experienced in using Salesforce, Microsoft Suite, NetSuite and Data Warehousing tools to create reports, dashboards and other data visualizations.
• Expert-level Microsoft Excel knowledge including Pivot Tables, Power Pivot, Power Query, Data Modeling, XLookup up and advanced formulas.
• Experienced with software sales metrics and KPIs.
• Proven ability to blend data from multiple systems tables to create comprehensive holistic views, as well as translate complex data into a consumable format for the target audience.
• Attention to accuracy, clarity and detail.
• Ability to quickly build trusted relationships with leadership and cross-functional teams.
• Self-motivated team player who has a strong work ethic.
• Self-starter and comfortable working within ambiguity as projects, data, and reporting is developed over time
• Responsible and timely in meeting regular reporting and analytics due dates
• Applicants must be authorized to work in the United States.

Nice To Haves

• Six Sigma and PMP certification a plus.
• Experience with AI assisted analysis and modeling a plus.

Responsibilities

• Help to define, implement and evolve the reporting environment, identify key data sources and work toward automation of operational reports to create broad visibility across the organization.
• Gather, aggregate and analyze data from back-office systems and other touch-points to provide holistic views and analytics as to the health of the business.
• Work with key stakeholders to define and publish KPls in executive-level dashboards across defined segments as well as BU rollups.
• Establish at-risk and early warning processes and reporting to drive proactive vs reactive behaviors.
• Provide ad hoc reports, data analysis and strategic recommendations as needed.
• Participate in a wide variety of process improvement efforts, including the analysis and documentation of business processes.
• Identify and execute on process improvement opportunities in sales, quality, throughput, productivity, and costing while promoting lean culture mentality.
• Work in a highly collaborative approach, managing multiple competing priorities and assignments.

Benefits

• The opportunity to drive some of the most critical transformation initiatives in our company’s history.
• A highly visible role working directly with senior leadership to shape the future operating model of CAI.
• Exposure across every function of the business.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Senior