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Finance Reporting Senior Analyst
NBC Universal
Englewood Cliffs, NJ, United States
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Finance Dashboard Reporting Senior Analyst
About Us
NBCUniversal is one of the world’s leading media and entertainment companies in the development, production, and marketing of entertainment, news, and information to a global audience. NBCUniversal owns and operates a valuable portfolio of news and entertainment television networks, a premier motion picture company, significant television production operations, a leading television stations group, and world-renowned theme parks. NBCUniversal’s policy is to provide equal employment opportunities to all applicants and employees without regard to race, color, religion, creed, gender, gender identity or expression, age, national origin or ancestry, citizenship, disability, sexual orientation, marital status, pregnancy, veteran status, membership in the uniformed services, genetic information, or any other basis protected by applicable law.
Business Intelligence (BI) is used to support a wide range of business reports and analyses ranging from operational to strategic, for monitoring and improving business performance. The reports and analyses are created using BI tools and methods to query and mine data stored on various databases and multi-dimensional datasets (cubes) including but not limited to the SAP BW platform. The data is collected and aggregated then presented in worksheets, pivots, charts, dashboards or story-telling platforms.
Responsibilities
This role will be responsible for development and ongoing oversight of executive dashboards. This position is responsible for developing and driving the overall enterprise Key Performance Indicators (KPI) reporting strategy including enhancing and leveraging the current systems to support the reporting and analytical business needs for NBCU Corporate. Gathers specifications for reports and analysis based on business needs. Create proper technical documentation for work assignments. Gather technical requirements for the Data Warehouse as needed. Under minimal supervision, the Finance Dashboard Reporting Analysis will use BI tools to create or modify ad-hoc or scheduled reports. Additionally, be involved in formatting, summarizing and selecting the right visualization to present the data in a meaningful way. This role will interact with strategic vendors and appropriate business stakeholders to ensure appropriate management of data and general expectations. This position also works closely with the business process improvement team to ensure unified focus in delivering incremental and consistent business value and visibility to the organization via KPI reporting and analytics. Primary responsibilities will include:
• Understanding NBCU business processes requirements by engaging with business partners at enterprise and division level.
• Craft adaptable, comprehensive and feasible solutions by creating necessary blueprint documents for functional requirements and technical specifications
• Design functional solutions to solve business problems and needs
• Ensure agreement on design with process owners
• Review and/or participate in solution build and test activities on implementations, rollouts, or upgrade projects
• Implement proposed solutions
• Review current standards and revise to ensure best practices
• Serve as the conduit between businesses and technology
• Facilitate business requirement definition sessions
• Advise on solution roadmap for SAP projects
• Conduct comparative research and recommend strategies relating to reporting technologies
• Receive advanced report requests and prioritize needed action
• Research and determine requirements for reports and analysis based on business needs and/or available data elements, provide clear report requirements including source paths, tables and logic
• Provide consultation to business users and help them understand the data
• Create best-in-class regular reports, including ad hoc reporting, to support strategic data-based decision-making in support of daily decision making, strategic planning, growth initiatives, and targeted initiatives
• Develop and prepare actionable departmental scorecards & dashboards showing high level results and trends with supporting details records
• Collaborate with IT and business units to advance the company's reporting capabilities and improve accuracy of data
• Research outliers and identify root causes of issues identified in reports
• Maintain relationships with and provide reporting & analytical support to business units and support cross-functional projects
• Determine opportunities and identify solutions to improve capabilities and efficiency of reporting
• Experience with Business intelligence and Analytical tools (SAP Reporting Tools, Tableau,etc…)
• Well-developed knowledge of quantitative and qualitative technical analysis expertise (reporting, modeling, methodology, financial and business impacts) facilitate the development and reporting of key performance indicators (KPIs)
• Create dashboards highlighting key metrics/indicators driving corporate financial decisions.
• Ensure data integrity, accurate interpretation of outcomes and timely delivery of all products to provide effective solutions to support client issues or needs.
• There are no direct reports to this role; but this is considered a senior role within SAP team.
Qualifications/Requirements
• Bachelors or advanced degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, Accounting or Business from an accredited institution or equivalent
• 7+ years of progressive hands on experience in data analytics and/or IT capacity with at least 5 dashboard implementations of high complexity, large scale and global user base
• Strong Analytical Skills: Ability to identify and interpret the focus of the project and apply decisive reasoning to produce solutions to meet client needs.
• Mentors team members in relevant technologies and implementation architecture
• Adherence to IT/SAP project methodologies, and change control processes
• Familiarity and comfort in working in an outsourced module with onshore and offshore resources
• Onsite work location – Englewood Cliffs, NJ
• Willingness to work off business hours and weekends as needed in a demanding environment
• Adhere to all company policies and procedures, including compliance with privacy and security policies and procedures, attendance and participation in required training
Additional Job Requirements:
• Interested candidate must submit a resume/CV through www.nbcunicareers.com to be considered
• Must be willing to work in Englewood Cliffs, NJ
Desired Characteristics
• Dashboard Experience :
◦ Hana Studio
◦ 3rd Party solutions ( Tableau, Python, Microsoft BI Analytics, etc…)
• Proficient in Microsoft Office Suite (Word, Visio Excel, Outlook)
• Experience in a Media Industry a plus
• Conceptual to detailed thinking skills
• Possess interpersonal skills to engage with all levels of Business and IT
• Self-starter to work on multiple projects simultaneously with a keen desire to learn and expand depth of knowledge
• Exhibit collaboration and teamwork skills
• Demonstrate excellent verbal/presentation and written communication skills