GuruSchools LLC is hiring: Data Analyst/Business Analyst in Washington

Data Analyst/Business Analyst 4 DAYS ON SITE IN DC

Business/Data Analyst — CITFN Roles & Responsibilities • Interact with business stakeholders to gather data, reporting and analytic requirements for financial data sets

• Perform data analysis, data lineage, and profiling of data from source system to data repositories and reports. Responsible for data mapping to any “to-be” data structures.

• Create specifications for Reporting/Analytic requirements and work with business users to elicit hidden requirements and clarify vague requirements, as well as ensure sign offs on requirements.

• Interact with technical teams and guide offshore development resources to help translate requirements into solutions. Responsible for providing functional and technical guidance to the development team.

• Coordinate user acceptance testing of reports and data driven solutions by working with the business users.

• Assist the Program Managers with tracking work program deliverables using the appropriate SDLC methodologies including agile scrum.

• Manage daily technical challenges and communicates to management any risks or issues.

• Develop, manage, and maintain processes, procedures, and documentation for handover to application support.

SKILLS / EXPERIENCE REQUIRED • Minimum 8 yrs. of relevant experience and master’s degree plus required industry certificates; or bachelor’s degree and 10 years of relevant experience.

• Strong analytical skills coupled with capabilities to understand and interpret data

• Experienced IT professional working on large data and reporting applications as well a strong understanding of Operational data stores, Data Warehouses and/or Data Marts

• Strong understanding of accounting concepts, finance and economic principles and working experience in general accounting procedures and reconciliations

• Broad experience of middle and back office functions of financial organizations

• Excellent skills in analyzing data, gathering requirements and working with clients and technical teams to translate requirements into solution.

• Proficient in the use of PL/SQL and ability to read data models, infer data flows and write complex queries

• Hands on experience with reporting tools (like Power BI, SAP BO, Tableau) and ability to perform ad hoc analysis

• Strong project management skills with a process orientation and ability to leverage Agile concepts

• Familiarity in using agile tools such as Azure devops

• Excellent oral and written communications skills and experience interacting with both business and IT individuals.

Must haves for this role :

1. Experience working in data projects – part of implementing data products/ warehouse/ data mart

2. Background in finance / experience in projects relating to finance / treasury

3. Strong data analysis skills