Reporting Specialist

Role Purpose

The Analytics Specialist serves as a subject matter expert responsible for delivering data-driven insights and analyses to guide business decisions, identify system performance trends, and develop and execute plans to optimize workflows, improve processes, and enhance operational efficiency. They oversee high-impact projects, act as the primary point of contact for specific focus areas, design performance tracking queries, maintain complex databases and Tableau/BI reports, and effectively communicate insights and actionable recommendations to stakeholders.

Key Accountabilities

• Work on high-priority projects with significant impact across the organization, ensuring alignment with business objectives and delivering measurable outcomes.
• Manage process and vendors regarding ongoing projects to ensure the delivery against business needs and monthly production goals. 
• Develop, own, and maintain highly complex data extracts and databases, adhering to specified business and technical requirements. 
• Design and build performance tracking queries and reports for individual decision support system users. 
• Confidently influence business decisions through the entire lifecycle of initiatives, from Test & Learn to execution stages.
• Primary point of contact for respective focus area and can represent the line manager’s duties if needed and fostering cross-functional collaboration.
• Champion the design, development, and deployment of advanced reports and dashboards, empowering regional and global teams with self-service analytics tools.
• Utilize advanced analytical techniques and tools to address business challenges, including statistical analyses where applicable, to derive actionable insights.
• Effectively communicate findings and provide actionable insights and recommendations to appropriate levels
• Confidently make decisions, perform day-to-day responsibilities and communicate to stakeholders with minimal supervision required.                                                      
• Drives own development plan and competent to leading self
   

Functional Complexities and Duties –

• Develop and maintain financial reporting databases and ensure consolidation of data as required for budgeting, forecasting and year over year change exercises.
• Facilitate monthly reporting through the collection, consolidation and reconciliation of global financial data including forecasts, budgets, actual and prior year information. Ensure data integrity is maintained through appropriate and thorough reconciliation of system data to subsystem data monthly.
• Publish monthly, quarterly and annual reporting as specified in both an accurate and timely manner. Create and communicate ad hoc reporting as required. Maintain appropriate records suitable for research and audit. Make timely changes or adaptations to individual reporting and reporting program as required. Execute monthly, quarterly and annual reconciliation’s as required to balance adjacent reporting and systems.

Key Skills & Experiences

Education –

• Bachelor’s degree in Statistics, Mathematics, Marketing, and other related field of studies (Information Technology, Operations Research) or an equivalent combination of education and work-related experience. 
• Minimum university degree and 3-4 years of relevant experience or equivalent.                                                                                                           

Experience –

2 or more years progressive work-related experience working with relational decision-support databases and analytical consulting with demonstrated proficiency and understanding in one or more functions related to the position.                                                                        
 

Technical Skills and Knowledge –

• Enthusiasm for analyzing business trends and performance 
• Established a strong working knowledge of the different business functional areas and act as point of contact to respective stakeholders
• Ability to communicate prolifically and be able to influence stakeholder of any level. 
• Being savvy to use Microsoft Excel and Microsoft PowerPoint will be an advantage. 
• Experience with data visualization tool ( Tableau, Power BI, etc)
• Demonstrated knowledge of Visual Basic scripting techniques, Microsoft Access and Excel functionality to include the use of macros   
• Demonstrated experience in a decision-support and data warehousing environment.
• Basic project management sills and ability to manage multiple priorities. 
• Requires broad knowledge of theory, practices and principles within a specific professional discipline. 
• Demonstrates capacity to understand operational needs. 
• Applies subject matter knowledge under limited supervision. 
• Basic project management sills and ability to manage multiple priorities. 
• Requires broad knowledge of theory, practices and principles within a specific professional discipline. 
• Demonstrates capacity to understand operational needs. 
• Applies subject matter knowledge under limited supervision.