Business Reporting Analyst (Charlotte)

Job Title : Business Reporting Analyst

Location - Los Angeles CA or Charlotte NC

Pay - Depending on experience

6 months contract to with potential extensions

WHAT WILL YOU DO?

Develop and test dashboards, visualizations, semantic data models, and reports. Focus will be on reporting development using SAP Business Objects.

Develop high level and detailed designs for existing reporting platforms, development activities along with process improvements.

Work with business users to gather requirements, troubleshoot report issues, and drive resolutions towards completion. Participate in user acceptance testing.

Effectively communicating and collaborating with business users, T&I support teams, providing an understanding of the problem and resolution.

Identify development and data quality issues, performing thorough testing and validation of reports, visualizations and dashboards in conjunction with business users.

Research and trouble-shoot user-reported issues and incidents related to the BI reporting environment including performance, data discrepancies, access issues, etc.

Be a self-starter, someone that will take the initiative to learn new things and research solutions without prompting.

Ability to multi-task various projects and tasks with tight deliverables.

Fosters and maintains good relationships with colleagues to meet expected customer service levels.

Develop and maintain positive, productive, and professional relationships with key business users to meet expected customer service levels.

WHAT DO YOU NEED TO SUCCEED

Must-Have

Minimum 3 years of BI report development experience using Business Objects 4.2 or above. Includes experience with Universe Design (IDT / UDT).

Minimum of 1 year of SQL logic development and support experience.

Skills and Knowledge

Strong SQL and data modeling experience; the capability to troubleshoot joins, conduct performance tuning across heterogeneous sources, and validate the end-to-end data flow process

Direct experience cleaning data and compiling disparate data sources across multiple databases, ensuring consistent semantic layers and governed data definitions.

Direct experience with Oracle, MS SQL Server and Snowflake databases is strongly preferred

BS in Computer Science or a related technical field preferred.

Direct experience with Tableau or other business intelligence platforms is strongly preferred.

Excellent analytical and problem-solving skills.

Excellent oral and written communication and interpersonal skills.

Strong organizational, multi-tasking, and time-management skills preferred.

Ability to work independently or within a team for problem resolution

Must demonstrate ability to multi-task and be flexible.