Global Business Insight Analyst

Summary

Join Dentons, the world's largest global law firm, as a Global Business Insight Analyst! This remote role, with occasional office visits, involves coordinating financial data reconciliations across global entities. You will design reconciliation processes, train stakeholders, create monitoring dashboards, and optimize data capture. This data-focused position offers significant influence on leadership decision-making. You'll collaborate with global finance teams, build relationships, and drive improvements in data quality and reliability. The role requires flexibility to work across time zones and a commitment to continuous learning.

Requirements

• Be a Qualified accountant/engineer/data scientist with minimum 5 years of working experience
• Possess data manipulation and analysis skills, with business acumen to use data to solve problems
• Have strong business English, both written and verbal
• Have Microsoft tools expertise, to include Office, and in particular advanced Excel functions required for data reconciliation, and ideally strength and experience in Power Query and PowerBi
• Have experience of process optimization
• Have experience of designing reporting to meet business needs

Responsibilities

• Work with each of Dentons entities to ensure that the data provided to global platforms such as our Global Data Insight hub, and our Enterprise Data Base is reconciled regularly to its source, that the data is complete, and that it is an accurate representation of work undertaken for clients.  This will include gathering requirements for additional analysis and working with developers to deliver solutions to meet the business need
• Work with each of Dentons entities on remediation activity in the event of data issues being identified, ensuring that minimum financial standards are embedded within best practice and working with colleagues in the Global Data Insight (GDI) team, and the Data Services team should changes to integrations to global systems be required
• Form trusted relationships with finance team members around the globe and collaborate effectively to drive up minimum financial standards and improve the quality and reliability of our data
• Design of a reconciliation process for entity data being passed to global systems, to include notifications, monitoring and escalation
• Training of all Dentons entities on process, creating a master list of stakeholders responsible, documenting responsibilities and escalation paths
• Create a dashboard to monitor progress of monthly reconciliations to be available to leadership
• Improve processes for the accurate capture of data at source and compliance with financial standards, working alongside entity and global finance teams
• Provide ad hoc support to decision makers facilitating Dentons to become a data driven organization through having access to timely data that is both reliable and able to be interpreted by senior stakeholders

Preferred Qualifications

• Have strong and personable communication skills, with business international level of English and Spanish – both written and oral
• Have knowledge of French
• Have demonstrable success of working within a team, meeting shared goals
• Have demonstrable and progressive experience in the areas of data manipulation and analytics
• Possess a fastidiousness for accurate, reconciled analysis with the personality to not rest until imbalances are found
• Have experience of influencing and engaging stakeholders, including building and managing relationships
• Have the ability to work under pressure and manage conflicting demands
• Possess strong intellectual rigor and commercial awareness
• Have demonstrable problem-solving skills, thinking outside of the box to deliver the desired result gathering appropriate data to support a full evaluation of options for a solution
• Have the ability to interpret business requirements into tangible action plans and communicate those clearly
• Have a commitment to continual learning ad adapting ways of working to deliver results

Benefits

• Remuneration and befits package will reflect the successful candidates experience and country where hired
• Remote working role, with an expectation to attend a local Dentons office periodically