QualificationsProject managementAnalysis skillsPower BIAzureSQLBachelor’s degree
Finance (FinOps) organization is on a mission to design and optimize trusted global accounting and disbursement solutions empowering our stakeholders to achieve more. We create operations and customer-changing innovations that impact thousands of people around the world. We create capacity for employees through process & technology, use automation to create value for our stakeholders, and grow our impact through knowing our customer. If you are passionate about operational excellence and inspired by innovations that impact how Finance operates and thousands of people work, we invite you to learn more about Microsoft Fnance Operations and the value we deliver across Microsoft and to our customers and partners.
WHAT WE DO:
The Center of Innovation Data Services team, as part of FinOps, is a high performing Business and Data Analytics team that lives in a growth mindset culture, is passionate about technology and is focused on enabling and accelerating FinOps Digital Transformation journey and data culture. We empower FinOps teams with accurate and consistent understanding of the organizational data and deliver actionable insights, allowing teams to create value for the organization by introducing digital and automated offerings. This enables FinOps to operate more efficiently, manage risks and compliance, provide the best experience for our customers while lowering our operational costs by scale.
Are you looking for your next career challenge? Join us and help us achieve our mission! We are looking for a strong candidate who has deep comfort and capabilities in leveraging Microsoft technology to deliver impactful data insights and solutions. The individual should be a technically savvy and operationally disciplined professional with a proven record of successfully delivering technology-data related solutions and business insights, including business process automation, advanced analytical data models, data visualization and reporting.
Responsibilities
Business Analytics:
Be an agent of change by challenging the status quo and providing insights to build compelling and actionable business cases that mobilize change.
Understand analytical goals and strategic priorities from the FinOps team.
Analyze complex, high-volume, high-dimensionality data from varying sources using a variety of tools and data analysis techniques.
Gather, synthetize, and analyze qualitative and quantitative data to identify patterns and trends, leading to meaningful insights and actions that can help the organization’s decisions and directions and influence change with stakeholders.
Create and visualize dashboards leveraging Microsoft Power BI.
Data Analytics:
Manage FinOps’s data architecture for data collection from a variety of sources, analysis, and to support data science, process automation and experimentation projects. Responsible for how FinOps data is stored, consumed, and integrated.
Develop analytical data sets in Azure which can be used for analytics, automation solutions, machine learning, artificial intelligence, and data science.
Apply technology to represent the best solution for FinOps team’s stakeholders needs. Lead the implementation of a defined technical solution.
Be a citizen developer leveraging Microsoft Power Platform technology stack to develop low code / no code solutions.
Ensure projects and applications consistently meet data integrity and quality standards and policies (security, privacy, etc.)
Leadership:
Embody Microsoft culture and values.
Effective collaboration and engagement with stakeholders to align and prioritize business problems where technology-based solutions can have an impact.
Manage and work with various engineering teams to ensure successful solution delivery.
Represent our capabilities and service offerings to internal and external audiences.
Articulate vision, requirements & benefits, providing a solid rationale to business and technical partners.
Influence diverse audiences and build strong partnerships with stakeholders.
Build relationships and trust with stakeholders to drive change.
Qualifications
Required/Minimum Qualifications
Bachelor’s Degree in Engineering, Business, or related field AND 2+ years process management, process execution, process optimization, or related experience
OR equivalent experience.
Preferred Qualifications:
3+ years of professional experience in Data Analytics, Business Analytics, data visualization or related field.
Strong understanding of Finance processes and needs.
Demonstrated analytical ability, complex problem deconstruction into easy-to-understand concepts, statistical competency, data validation and fluency in visualization techniques.
Strong understanding and expertise on cloud-based data pipelines, data sources and “data landscape”.
Expertise in building data sets in Azure, AWS, Hadoop or similar big data environments and database technology. Advanced Analytics including Azure Synapse, visualization tools as PowerBI.
Advanced SQL skills and proficiency in advanced functions (g., creating formulas, pivot tables, VBA).
Unique mix of technical, analytical, development, project management, and process re-engineering skills and expertise.
Data Science qualification or experience is a plus.
Experienced Citizen Developer. Knowledge on Microsoft Power Platform technology (i.e. Power Apps, Power Automate) is a plus.
Ability to identify and implement industry best practices to improve existing processes; demonstrable achievement within a results-driven, highly ambiguous, and dynamic environment.
Microsoft is an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to age, ancestry, color, family or medical care leave, gender identity or expression, genetic information, marital status, medical condition, national origin, physical or mental disability, political affiliation, protected veteran status, race, religion, sex (including pregnancy), sexual orientation, or any other characteristic protected by applicable laws, regulations and ordinances. We also consider qualified applicants regardless of criminal histories, consistent with legal requirements. If you need assistance and/or a reasonable accommodation due to a disability during the application or the recruiting process, please send a request via the Accommodation request form.
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