Business Data Analyst

The Opportunity The Business Data Analyst – Auto Systems and Reporting will be responsible for acting as a member of a team that develops and maintains a set of reports used in systems support functions and auto finance field operations. The Work Itself • Consult with internal stakeholders to capture and document reporting requirements, including wireframe mockups of reports and the location of source data in system UI. • Research and document the location of required source data in the appropriate database. Write SQL code to verify that report requirements can be developed into a finished report. • Create and maintain requirements documentation (mapping, rulebooks, etc.), testing documentation and approvals from stakeholders. • Act as a primary contact for support, troubleshooting, defect documentation and tracking related to reports developed by the team. • Schedule and host daily Development Team meetings; ensure an adequate backlog is maintained and help prioritize daily work. • Schedule and host weekly Stakeholder meetings to share progress, resolve any blocking dependencies, groom and prioritize the request backlog. • Create and provide periodic progress updates to Management; create Jira Dashboards to track team activities and report on volume and trends. • Develop and analyze SQL queries to research data sources and validate report accuracy. • Partner with internal IT teams to optimize data architecture and data utilization. • Participate in data quality rule creation and testing activities. • Support and administer an IBM Cognos Reporting site for operational reports. • Support and administer multiple Power BI workspaces, dashboards and apps for operational reports. • Proactively engage in projects to provide data thought leadership. • Perform special projects/assignments as needed. The Skills You Bring • Strong written and oral communication skills required. • Strong organization and documentation skills required. • Thorough approach and attention to detail required. • Ability to achieve balance between the right technical and business solution required. • Experience collaborating with partners to capture requirement and document data sources required. • Experience performing complex data extraction from multiple, large data sources required. • Experience with development and administration of reporting packages required; experience with Power BI and IBM Cognos strongly preferred. • Advanced knowledge of MS Excel and Power Query including pivot tables and VLOOKUP functions strongly preferred. • Experience creating data quality rules and executing test cases strongly preferred. • Experience creating and administering SharePoint sites strongly preferred. • Knowledge of Atlassian Jira and Confluence preferred. • Experience creating data quality rules and testing activities preferred. • Experience writing and executing SQL queries required; cloud-based data extraction preferred. • Intermediate knowledge of automation through VBA preferred. • Knowledge of Python preferred. • Experience in Consumer Finance or Auto Finance industry (consumer lending and servicing, commercial lending, etc.) strongly preferred. About Impetus • Impetus Technologies is a digital engineering company. • We deliver expert services and products in cloud data engineering and analytics space to help large enterprises in their digital transformation journey /goals. Enabling an intelligent, data-driven future for our customers. • We solve Analytics, AI (Artificial Intelligence), and Cloud puzzle for fortune 500 companies to help drive innovation and growth for them. • Headquartered in Los Gatos, California, with offshore development centers. We also have office in Canada.