Data Analyst/Business Analyst

  Data Analyst/Business Analyst   4 DAYS ON SITE IN DC Business/Data Analyst – CITFN Roles & Responsibilities • Interact with business stakeholders to gather data, reporting and analytic requirements for financial data sets • Perform data analysis, data lineage, and profiling of data from source system to data repositories and reports. Responsible for data mapping to any "to-be" data structures. • Create specifications for Reporting/Analytic requirements and work with business users to elicit hidden requirements and clarify vague requirements, as well as ensure sign offs on requirements. • Interact with technical teams and guide offshore development resources to help translate requirements into solutions. Responsible for providing functional and technical guidance to the development team. • Coordinate user acceptance testing of reports and data driven solutions by working with the business users. • Assist the Program Managers with tracking work program deliverables using the appropriate SDLC methodologies including agile scrum. • Manage daily technical challenges and communicates to management any risks or issues. • Develop, manage, and maintain processes, procedures, and documentation for handover to application support. SKILLS / EXPERIENCE REQUIRED • Minimum 8+ yrs. of relevant experience and master's degree plus required industry certificates; or bachelor's degree and 10+ years of relevant experience. • Strong analytical skills coupled with capabilities to understand and interpret data • Experienced IT professional working on large data and reporting applications as well a strong understanding of Operational data stores, Data Warehouses and/or Data Marts • Strong understanding of accounting concepts, finance and economic principles and working experience in general accounting procedures and reconciliations • Broad experience of middle and back office functions of financial organizations • Excellent skills in analyzing data, gathering requirements and working with clients and technical teams to translate requirements into solution. • Proficient in the use of PL/SQL and ability to read data models, infer data flows and write complex queries • Hands on experience with reporting tools (like Power BI, SAP BO, Tableau) and ability to perform ad hoc analysis • Strong project management skills with a process orientation and ability to leverage Agile concepts • Familiarity in using agile tools such as Azure devops • Excellent oral and written communications skills and experience interacting with both business and IT individuals. Must haves for this role : 1. Experience working in data projects - part of implementing data products/ warehouse/ data mart 1. Background in finance / experience in projects relating to finance / treasury 1. Strong data analysis skills