Remote Business Data Analyst, Project-Based Consultant

Summary

Join our dynamic team as a Business Data Analyst, where you will leverage your knowledge of Workday to provide top-tier consulting services to our higher education clients. As a consultant, you will enjoy the flexibility of remote work while contributing to the success of leading institutions.

Requirements

• Associate degree
• A minimum of 1- 3 years data analysis SQL query experience
• Experience coordinating and collaborating with cross functional partners in validating and documenting data, developing detailed functional specifications for ETL developers and testing the ETL code

Responsibilities

• Collaborates with functional stakeholders to assess reporting needs, gather specifications/requirements, and design reports for development
• Builds simple and advanced data views utilizing SQL queries in an AWS environment
• Collaborates with developers through sharing knowledge, experience, and/or training
• Conduct requirements gathering, analysis, and planning for HR and Finance data related to the project
• Contributes to sprint planning and execution using Jira
• Perform application data and systems analysis. This will include identifying business questions and the data required to answer the questions, then mapping data from legacy and new applications along with identifying dashboard requirements to answer the business question
• Ensure collaboration across teams in fast moving project environment

Preferred Qualifications

• Knowledge and/or experience with Workday data either through building reports or integrations
• Experience working with XML data
• Knowledge and/or experience with AWS tools such as Athena, Redshift and using SQL tools such as DBeaver
• Exposure to Workday, Peoplesoft, or other ERPs
• Experience using data in the AWS data warehousing platform, in Tableau, or in other warehousing and visualization tools
• Ability to train/knowledge transfer with other data analysts
• Excellent organizational, time-management, and decision-making skills
• Ability to diagnose and solve complex reporting issues
• Experience developing data views in the areas of human resources, accounting, finance, or budgets