Financial Planning And Analysis Analyst (Remote)

Financial Planning and Analysis Analyst: Contractor

Kaizen Analytix LLC, an analytics products and services company that gives clients unmatched speed to value through analytics solutions and actionable business insights, is seeking qualified candidates for a Tableau Developer with experience in financial data analysis. Responsibilities and job requirements are below. This role requires an estimated 40 hours/week commitment for up to 1 year.

Location: Southeast preferred

Travel: 25% (~Every other week, 2 days)

Responsibilities:

• Structuring ambiguous business problems and supporting data analysis, data visualization, and project management
• Building the foundation for the project effort by capturing the business context - problem, current state, desired future state, objectives, business needs and impacted user groups
• Tell stories with data by infusing business knowledge, leveraging user centric best-practices, and data visualization tools to convey insights in intuitive and compelling ways
• Collecting and reviewing available information to make data-driven business decisions and recommendations
• Facilitating a critical communications role by interacting with users (business domain), project team members and development personnel (technical domain)
• Deploying project management methodologies/software development approaches and defining the appropriate deliverables throughout the project
• Design, develop, and test dashboards and analytics visualizations with advanced functionality and user experience in Tableau
• Support Analysis and visualization relating to annual Financial Planning and quarterly forecast updates
• Strong understanding of all business financial statements (P&L, Balance Sheet, and Cash Flow) and relationships
• Evaluating trends in monthly cost outcomes for target costs and identifying opportunities for improvement
• Understanding of Sale-Revenue life-cycle from order to delivery of product
• Ensure the requirements are specified in a manner suitable for the intended audience and are understandable, unambiguous, and capable of being implemented and tested
• Assess change requests related to requirements to assess overall impact

Job Requirements:

• Education: Bachelor's degree required
• Experience: 1-3 years of experience in business analysis / dashboard development or related field.
• Core Skills: Strong communication skills; mindset of own it all the way through solution
• Functional Skills: Excellent presentation and documentation skills
• Tools: Tableau and advanced Excel
• 3+ years financial analysis experience preferred
• Highly proficient in Microsoft Office applications; Good working knowledge of Data Visualization tools; Familiarity with Analytics tools (Alteryx, Forecasting tools, etc.)
• Project Management: Ability to manage projects using SDLC, PMI, and Agile methodologies
• Position Type: 1099 Contractor