Vice President, Data & Analytics

Portage Point is a business advisory, interim management and investment banking firm intensely focused on the middle market. Our blue-chip team leverages bulge bracket experience in consulting, operations, finance, accounting, investment banking and investing to provide unmatched transactional, operational and financial perspectives to middle market stakeholders. The Portage Point cross-functional platform is uniquely architected to offer fully integrated capabilities and solutions that identify value capture, mitigate risk and positively impact outcomes at every stage of the ever-changing middle market business lifecycle. From ideation to monetization, Portage Point delivers excellence across transaction advisory services, transaction execution services, office of the CFO, performance improvement, interim management, investment banking, operational turnaround and financial restructuring.

 

Recognized for accelerated growth, Portage Point Partners is consistently featured in rankings from Inc. 5000, The Financial Times and Consulting Magazine. This recognition is a testimony to the firm's focus on excellence, intensity and pace and attracting blue chip talent to deliver best-in-class solutions.

 

The Vice President, Data & Analytics role represents a unique opportunity for a highly motivated professional to drive value creation initiatives for internal stakeholders, private equity funds, direct lenders and corporate clients. The ideal candidate is a visionary leader and technologist who can not only contribute to the development of our data management and analytics service offerings but also lay the foundational elements for our technological growth. Qualified individuals should be prepared to work collaboratively in a fast-paced environment delivering cutting-edge data and technology solutions both internally and for a diverse range of clients. This role is a blend of internal operational excellence and external, client-facing consultancy offering a unique challenge for a highly skilled professional.

Responsibilities

• Working directly with Portage Point team members and clients to identify and develop data analytics solutions across transaction advisory services, performance improvement, interim management, turnaround and restructuring and investment banking
• Leading, managing, implementing and maintaining client and internal data analytics workstreams
• Designing, building, launching, optimizing and extending full-stack data and business intelligence solutions spanning extraction, storage, complex transformation and visualization
• Serving as the primary point of contact for questions and escalations related to data architecture and solutions applicable to business problems or use cases
• Developing big data and cloud-based applications to facilitate data analytics capabilities
• Drafting clear and compelling reports and data visualizations outlining key takeaways
• Participating and leading management meetings
• Assessing the usefulness of new technologies and advocating for their adoption
• Identifying potential business opportunities for Portage Point within existing engagements and escalating these as appropriate
• Anticipating and identifying risks within engagements and sharing any issues with senior members of the team
• Creating a positive learning culture while coaching team members

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree from an accredited college/university in a numerate subject such as Computer Science, Mathematics and/ or Statistics
• Advanced skills in Power BI, Tableau, Tableau Prep, Dataiku and other visualization and BI platforms; ability to confidently construct a client facing dashboard related to financial analysis with minimal oversight
• Minimum three years of experience working as a data architect, data engineer and / or business intelligence engineer with advanced knowledge of data platforms (e.g., Snowflake, Azure Synapse, AWS Redshift, Google Big Query, SQL Server, Oracle, etc.), database management tools and programming languages and / or Microsoft specific languages (Python, SQL, DAX, Power Query M, VBA, etc.)
• Willing to come into the office four days a week
• Strong critical thinking and analytical skills
• Ability to successfully work in a small, collaborative team environment
• High degree of maturity with a proven ability to interact with senior executives, private equity firms, lenders, lawyers, middle managers and other key stakeholders
• Experience creating and maintaining ETL / ELT pipelines that operate on a variety of sources such as APIs, FTP sites, databases including relational and semi-structured data
• A broad appreciation of business processes, data structures, IT applications and infrastructure, IT processes, and governance and internal control principles
• Quantitative reasoning skills including proficiency in statistics and mathematics
• Working knowledge of descriptive / informative analytics, predictive analytics, prescriptive / decision making analytics, social media analytics, risk & control analytics, process analytics, operational analytics, financial modelling and risk scoring & modeling
• Proven track-record of success in high pressure, time-constrained environments
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills including strong e-mail etiquette to include timely responsiveness to stakeholders at all levels
• Top-tier organizational skills and attention to detail
• Self-starter and entrepreneurial nature

$145,000 - $175,000 a year

This range represents the anticipated minimum and maximum base + bonus for this position based upon a good faith and reasonable estimate. The final compensation for this position will be set based on the applicant's qualifications (education, training, and/or experience related to this role), and therefore, may fall outside the range shown, depending on the circumstances. 

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