Senior BI Analyst — Finance, AI Enabled
Durham, NC - USA
Job Summary
Primary Function of Position
We are seeking an experienced Senior BI Analyst to support the design and delivery of Finance reporting analytics data products and process-improvement solutions. Working closely with the Finance Product Owner this role will serve as an onsite analytical partner to Finance stakeholders and a key link between business application data engineering and reporting teams.
The ideal candidate combines Finance and ERP process knowledge with strong SQL data analysis and business intelligence capabilities. Operating at the intersection of business logic and data engineering you will understand complex business processes trace data lineage across systems investigate discrepancies and translate business needs into clear reporting models and technical requirements. You will design and deliver trusted dashboards BI data models operational monitoring and self-service analytics while evaluating practical automation and AI-assisted analytics opportunities (deep AI/ML engineering experience is not required).
Essential Job Duties
- Technical Translation & Requirements Gathering: Partner with the Finance Product Owner and Finance stakeholders to understand business processes controls and reporting needs. Translate business needs into functional and data requirements business rules report specifications user stories and acceptance criteria.
- BI Design & Solution Delivery: Design build and maintain Finance dashboards published data sources BI data models operational reports and self-service analytics solutions using Tableau Power BI or comparable platforms.
- Lineage Reconciliation & Root-Cause Analysis: Analyze end-to-end processes and data flows across ERP (SAP) CRM billing data warehouse and reporting platforms. Use advanced SQL and analytical tools to reconcile data validate business rules investigate discrepancies and identify root causes.
- Performance Tuning & Reporting Reliability: Optimize dashboard usability query performance data refresh schedules metric consistency and overall reporting reliability.
- Delivery Leadership & Governance: Lead assigned workstreams through requirements solution design UAT regression testing reconciliation implementation readiness and stakeholder sign-off. Maintain data definitions reporting specifications test evidence user guides and governance documentation.
- Internal Controls & Quality Monitoring: Support automated monitoring exception management data-quality controls and financially significant/SOX-governed reporting processes.
- Cross-Functional & Global Collaboration: Collaborate with application Data Engineering Data Science AI and platform teams while coordinating and reviewing deliverables across distributed onsite and offshore resources.
- Applied AI & Automation Evaluation: Evaluate and support opportunities to implement intelligent alerts natural-language analytics AI-assisted analysis and workflow automation within core Finance processes.
Qualifications :
Qualifications
Required Skills and Experience
- 7 years of progressive experience in business intelligence Finance analytics reporting business systems analysis or enterprise data solutions.
- ERP & Finance Domain: Experience with SAP or another enterprise ERP platform including strong understanding of Finance-related processes and cross-system data flows.
- Advanced SQL Mastery: Expert-level SQL skills for complex querying source-to-target reconciliation data troubleshooting root-cause analysis and query performance optimization.
- Enterprise BI Platforms: Strong hands-on experience designing dashboards BI data models calculated metrics published data sources and self-service solutions in Tableau Power BI or a comparable enterprise analytics platform.
- Data Architecture Fundamentals: Solid understanding of data warehousing concepts dimensional modeling semantic layers data quality lineage and visualization best practices.
- Delivery & Testing Leadership: Demonstrated experience translating business needs into technical specifications and leading UAT regression testing issue resolution and business-readiness activities.
- Communication & Influence: Proven ability to communicate complex business system and data topics to technical teams Finance stakeholders and senior leadership without direct authority.
Preferred Skills and Experience
- Experience with SAP Finance Salesforce CPQ/CLM billing or revenue-management platforms.
- Experience with Snowflake or another modern cloud data platform.
- Experience supporting financially significant applications internal controls or SOX-governed reporting.
- Familiarity with data governance master data management (MDM) metadata lineage and data-quality frameworks.
- Exposure to AI-assisted analytics natural-language querying intelligent monitoring Snowflake Cortex or comparable emerging technologies.
- Experience coordinating and reviewing work with distributed onsite and offshore analysts or consultants.
Required Education
- Bachelors or Masters degree in Information Systems Business Analytics Finance Accounting Computer Science Data Analytics or a related field.
What Success Looks Like
- Develops a strong understanding of Finance processes ERP applications system integrations critical data models and reporting dependencies.
- Establishes effective translation and validation practices between Finance stakeholders and technical delivery teams serving as a trusted onsite partner.
- Delivers accurate intuitive and performant dashboards and BI solutions that stakeholders trust for day-to-day decision-making and operational reviews.
- Independently uses SQL and analytical tools to reconcile data across systems trace transformations validate business rules and identify root causes.
- Improves reporting reliability and governance expanding exception monitoring data-quality controls metric consistency and self-service analytics adoption.
- Helps Finance teams adopt automation and AI-assisted analytics where they provide measurable business value and practical process improvements.
Additional Information :
Due to the nature of our business and the role please note that Intuitive and/or your customer(s) may require that you show current proof of vaccination against certain diseases including COVID-19. Details can vary by role.
Intuitive is an Equal Opportunity Employer. We provide equal employment opportunities to all qualified applicants and employees and prohibit discrimination and harassment of any type without regard to race sex pregnancy sexual orientation gender identity national origin color age religion protected veteran or disability status genetic information or any other status protected under federal state or local applicable laws.
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We provide market-competitive compensation packages inclusive of base pay incentives benefits and equity. It would not be typical for someone to be hired at the top end of range for the role as actual pay will be determined based on several factors including experience skills and qualifications. The target compensation ranges are listed.
Remote Work :
No
Employment Type :
Full-time
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