Minimum of five years in data analytics, finance, accounting, procurement, or supplier management.
Undergraduate degree or equivalent experience.
Strong analytical, problem-solving, and project-management skills.
Proven ability to translate complex data into actionable business recommendations.
Experience managing analytical projects from inception to ongoing process ownership.
Effective communicator with the ability to build relationships across functions.
Responsibilities
Evaluate banking-service costs and performance to identify trends and cost-saving opportunities.
Engage with internal partners to translate business needs into analytical projects.
Collaborate with various teams to ensure comprehensive analytical recommendations.
Compile and verify the quality of structured and unstructured data.
Analyze historical data to uncover trends using advanced methods.
Utilize tools like Excel, Power BI, and SQL for complex data analysis and reporting.
Prepare visualizations and presentations to convey analytic insights to business partners.
Standardize and automate workflows to enhance operational efficiency.
Mentor and develop junior analysts while sharing best practices.
Benefits
Opportunities for professional development and training.
Collaborative work environment with cross-functional teams.
Access to advanced analytical tools and technologies.
Involvement in special projects that enhance career growth.
Full Job Description
Responsibilities:
Applies financial and business acumen to evaluate banking-service costs, contractual terms, budgets, forecasts, and performance results, to identify trends, variances, risks, efficiencies, and cost-saving opportunities.
Engages with internal partners to understand business strategy, questions and goals. Brings structure to business requests, translates requirements into an analytical project approach, and leads projects through completion. Delegates tasks and provides tactical and strategic guidance to peers.
Partners across Corporate Accounting, Financial Planning & Analysis (FP&A), Enterprise Supply Management (ESM), Accounts Payable, relationship management, and other business teams to ensure analytical recommendations appropriately consider financial, accounting, procurement, contractual, supplier, and operational impacts.
Acquires and compiles structured and unstructured data and verifies its quality, accuracy and reasonableness.
Performs analyses of historical data to surface trends and insights using advanced analytical methods. Validates analytical techniques employed by other analysts.
Leverages advanced tools, including Excel, Power BI, Tableau, SQL, and similar technologies, to analyze complex financial, operational, provider, and performance data and develop scalable reporting solutions, models, dashboards, and scorecards.
Prepares and delivers visualizations and internal presentations that translate analytic insights into tangible, actionable solutions for business partners to implement.
Develops, owns and manages recurring analytic or reporting processes.
Standardizes and automates analytical and operational workflows, strengthens controls and transparency, documents methodologies, and promotes scalable, consistent, and repeatable practices.
Mentors, coaches, trains, and develops junior data analysts. Proactively expands knowledge of business and analytics and shares with team members. Shares and documents best practices.
Participates in special projects and performs other duties as assigned.
Qualifications:
Minimum of five years related work experience in data analytics, finance, accounting, procurement, supplier management, or a comparable discipline.
Undergraduate degree or equivalent combination of training and experience.
Strong analytical, problem-solving, project-management, and communication skills, with demonstrated ability to translate complex information into business recommendations.
Demonstrated ability to manage analytical work from requirements gathering and research through implementation and recurring process ownership.
Ability to build effective cross-functional relationships and communicate clearly with business partners and senior leaders.
Special Factors
Sponsorship
Vanguard is not offering visa sponsorship for this position.
