Finance & Business Analytics Manager

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At Armanino, you determine your career path. This means it's possible to pursue challenges you are passionate about, in industries you care about.

Armanino is proud to be among the top 20 largest accounting and consulting firms in the nation and one of the best places to work. We have a community of resources that are ready and willing to support your ideas, build your skills and expand your professional network. We want you to integrate all aspects of your life with your career. At Armanino, we know you don't check-out of life when you check-in at work. That's why we've created a unique work environment where your passions, work, and family & friends can overlap. We want to help you achieve growth by giving you access to a network of smart and supportive people, willing to listen to your ideas.

This role functions as a critical role supporting FP&A, Enterprise Analytics and our broader Internal Firm Services group by developing scalable reporting solutions, helping automate data-intensive business processes, and transforming data into actionable insights for our business users. This role will also help identify practical opportunities to leverage AI-enabled tools and analytics capabilities to improve reporting efficiency, enhance insight generation, and support decision-making.

Job Responsibilities

• Partner with FP&A leadership and other stakeholders to translate business requirements into intuitive and actionable data and reporting solutions.
• Facilitate requirement gathering sessions and solution design discussions.
• Train and educate the broader Financial Team on new reports and how to effectively self-serve.
• Serve as SME on reporting and data questions for internal stakeholders, including training and support.
• Partner with the Firm's Enterprise Analytics team to understand latest changes to the Firm's broader Data Platform, semantic models and capabilities.
• Support FP&A team activities by creating centralized and standardized reports/processes for forecasting, budgeting and ad-hoc reporting.
• Analyze large datasets and communicate findings to both technical and non-technical audiences.
• Perform ad hoc analysis to identify trends, risks, opportunities, and operational improvements.
• Identify opportunities to standardize, centralize and automate manual reporting and business processes for key stakeholders via Power BI, Power Automate, Python, Excel (Power Query) and other related technologies.
• Evaluate and apply AI-enabled automation opportunities, where appropriate, to reduce manual effort, improve data quality checks, accelerate recurring reporting processes, and support more efficient analysis.
• Streamline recurring reporting activities and improve data refresh processes.
• Partner with Data Engineering and IT teams to improve data accessibility and quality.
• Design, develop, and maintain Power BI dashboards, reports, and semantic models supporting Finance, Operations, Workforce Planning, and Executive Leadership.
• Maintain reporting standards, documentation, and governance practices.
• Work with SQL-based data sources, data warehouses, Microsoft Fabric, Azure, and other enterprise platforms.
• Serve as a key contributor to the firm's Pigment planning platform, including model design, development, maintenance, testing, and enhancement of budgeting, forecasting, reporting, and analytical solutions; act as secondary platform administrator, behind the primary system administrator.
• Help establish and promote analytics best practices across the organization.
• Continuous improvement mentality with curiosity towards emerging technologies that can improve reporting efficiency and business insights.
• Stay current on advances in Power BI, Microsoft Fabric, AI-powered analytics, automation tools, and data visualization best practices.
• Evaluate emerging technologies that can improve reporting efficiency and business insights.

Requirements

• Bachelor's degree in Finance, Accounting, Business Analytics, Data Analytics, Information Systems, Economics, Mathematics, or related field
• Minimum 5 years of experience in Business Intelligence, Analytics, FP&A Analytics, Data Analytics, or Reporting
• Minimum 3 years experience developing scalable, automated reporting
• Expert-level abilities in Microsoft Data Tools, including Excel, Power Query, DAX
• Working knowledge and understanding of Financial Statements and Financial Processes
• Prior experience with Power Automate, SQL, Python
• Prior experience working with large financial and operational data sets and transforming them into ongoing reports
• Ability to work autonomously driving initiatives to completion with limited oversight
• Team focused delivery mindset with strong attention to detail
• Experience supporting Finance, Operations, Professional Services, or Consulting organizations in a fast-paced environment

Preferred Qualifications

• Masters Degree in Business Intelligence, Analytics, FP&A Analytics, Data Analytics, or Related field
• Proven experience applying AI and/or machine learning-enabled capabilities to reporting, forecasting, anomaly detection, workflow automation, or insight generation
• Prior team leadership experience
• Prior experience performing these functions at a Professional Services Firm
• Experience with Pigment Financial Planning software