Data Analyst

Are you looking to join an organization that is growing and dynamic? What about a high-energy, collaborative environment that rewards hard work?

J.S. Held is a global consulting firm that combines technical, scientific, financial, and strategic expertise to advise clients seeking to realize value and mitigate risk. Our professionals serve as trusted advisors to organizations facing high stakes matters demanding urgent attention, staunch integrity, proven experience, clear-cut analysis, and an understanding of both tangible and intangible assets.

The firm provides a comprehensive suite of services, products, and data that enable clients to navigate complex, contentious, and often catastrophic situations.

We are seeking a Data Analyst to join our Technical Services team.  This is a unique opportunity for an entrepreneurial, highly driven person with a well-rounded skill set to join the Development team, whose responsibilities extend beyond those of traditional analysis and development. The ideal person for this role will need to not only have a strong grasp of Power BI but also be flexible and a strategic thinker able to take on a variety of tasks.

This Data Analyst will be responsible for preparing data for analytical or operational uses; building data pipelines to pull together information from different source systems; integrating, consolidating, and cleansing data, and then creating visualizations, dashboards, reports, and content for employees and clients.

Job Responsibilities

• Requirements Gathering – Work directly with our business partners to identify, understand, and translate key metrics into high-quality analytics solutions designed to enhance and improve critical business processes.
• Visualization Design – Ability to turn those requirements into impactful dashboards aimed at displaying large amounts of data in a way to drive better, more informed decisions for the firm. This will require a strong understanding of, and experience in building, effective charts, and visualizations.
• Dashboard Development (Power BI) – Utilize your skills and knowledge to compile your visualizations into best-in-class analytics dashboards primarily using Microsoft Power BI
• Innovation – Champion the introduction of new practices for integration, maintenance, testing, deployment, reporting & analytics.
• Governance – Work with subject matter experts to build solutions using approved calculations and data elements, emphasizing proper data governance.
• Risk & Compliance – Ensure that all BI solutions are designed and built to comply with, and always adhere to data privacy and other risk & compliance policies, procedures, and controls.

Qualifications

Required Qualifications

• Professional proficiency of fluency in English.
• Bachelor’s degree in computer science, mathematics, information systems or similar field
• Minimum 2 years’ experience using Power BI as a primary analysis and visualization tool.
• Minimum 4 years’ experience developing queries and consuming data from Azure, SQL or similar tools, actively working with the data in Power BI or similar visualization tools.
• Extensive experience in data transformation through Power BI Query Editor
• Ability to quickly gather requirements, learn subject matter and extract and transform data.
• Adept in optimizing data models and visualizations maximizing Power BIs speed of response.
• Working knowledge on how to automate, deliver and schedule Power BI reports.
• Ability to test data model, calculations, and quality of analytical output.
• Power Query ("M" language), and DAX language experience.
• Strong ability to connect to variety of data sources, proficiently using the queried data in Power BI.
• Proficient in the development of highly visual reports, dashboards, and data narratives.
• Strong knowledge of secondary tools like SQL and Azure.
• Demonstrable experience in visualization best practices, data optimization and model efficiency.
• Ability to effectively deliver and present work to the appropriate audience.
• Apply data quality assurance practices in the development of data models and resulting output.
• Deadline-oriented with ability to manage concurrent deliverables.
• Candidates should be expected to demonstrate their knowledge of Power BI and command of data with team members o (Sanitized Portfolio would be desirable).
• Ability to work independently as well as an integral part of a team and ability to respond to rapidly changing environments.
• Collaborative self-starter with strong communication and problem-solving skills.

Additional Preferred Skills

• Experience supporting financial reporting and accounting processes, including building and validating datasets tied to P&L, balance sheet, or operational finance metrics
• Familiarity with data agents or intelligent automation tools, enabling proactive data monitoring, alerting, and insight generation
• Demonstrated ability to apply predictive analytics techniques such as forecasting, trend analysis, or statistical modeling to drive forward-looking business decisions
• Experience leveraging Power Automate to streamline data workflows, automate reporting processes, and integrate systems across the Microsoft ecosystem

Additional Information

Some of the Benefits We Have Include

J.S. Held understands all our employees are people and sometimes life needs flexibility. We work to always provide an environment that best supports and suits our team’s needs.

• Our flexible work environment allows employees to work remotely when needed
• Generous Annual Leave Policy
• Comprehensive Medical Insurance

Other Duties

Please note this job description is not designed to cover or contain a comprehensive listing of activities, duties, or responsibilities required of the employee for this job. Duties, responsibilities, and activities may change at any time with or without notice.

By submitting your application, you acknowledge that you have read the J.S. Held Online Privacy Notice and hereby freely and unambiguously give informed consent to the collection, processing, use, and storage of your personal information as required and described therein. California residents can click here to learn more about the personal information we collect and here to learn about additional privacy rights that may be available.

Please explore what we’re all about at www.jsheld.com.

EEO and Job Accommodations

We embrace diversity and our commitment to building a team and environment that fosters professional and personal enrichment is unwavering. We are greater when we are equal!

J.S. Held is an equal opportunity employer that is committed to hiring a diverse workforce. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to sex, gender identity, sexual orientation, race, color, religion, national origin, disability, protected Veteran status, age, or any other characteristic protected by law.

If you are an individual with a disability and would like to request for a reasonable accommodation, please email jobs@jsheld.com and include “Applicant Accommodation” within the subject line with your request and contact information.

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