Business Intelligence Reporting Analyst (Power BI)

Business Intelligence Reporting Analyst (Power BI)

Compensation Range: $75,000 - $90,000

Location: US Based Remote

The Mortgage Business Intelligence & Analytics team oversees all activities and functions involved with the company’s Business Intelligence platform, giving mortgage company business leaders access to reliable, actionable data to better manage and understand the business and drive company growth.

We are seeking a Business Intelligence Reporting Analyst to focus on the development of our Power BI reporting environment. The Reporting Analyst will be responsible for creating impactful dashboards and reports which deliver meaningful data to our business leaders in order to achieve organizational goals. This role will do more than compile tabular data; this role will have an opportunity to use data to tell a story, and help our team, as well as business leaders, derive meaningful insights. The Reporting Analyst will also be responsible for managing highly visible reporting such as recurring executive reports and regulatory reporting.

The right candidate will have a strong background with Power BI. They will be detail oriented, with the ability to infer business needs and develop reporting solutions using data visualization best practices including leveraging Gestalt principles, Storytelling with Data, and visualization selection principals. They will proactively run data quality checks to ensure the integrity of the information being delivered. Self-motivated with an eagerness to learn, becoming a subject matter expert to coincide with technical fluency. Stays abreast of the latest Power BI features and identifies the right opportunities for implementation.

What you will be doing:

Report Development (50%)

• Build effective and efficient reports and dashboards using best practices in data presentation and design language
• Migrate existing reporting inventory to a centralized semantic model
• Automate/streamline manual processes

Regulatory Reporting (20%)

• Ongoing monitoring of exceptions, including engagement with business partners to resolve data discrepancies
• Collection and curation of data points from business partners
• Execution of regulatory data preparation processes
• Documented validation of datasets against system of record

Semantic Model Maintenance (10%)

• Update semantic models to support new reporting needs
• Monitor model efficiency and implement changes as needed to optimize performance

Report Maintenance (10%)

• Make minor changes and updates to existing reports as needed

Documentation (5%)

• Document report development processes for business contingency purposes
• Maintain semantic model documentation, including data sources and table relationships
• Maintain an index of all active reports, including data lineage, purpose, and audience
• Maintain reporting changelog

Team Support & Other Duties (5%)

• Provide backfill support for ongoing team work as needed

Qualifications

• 3+ years’ experience in a data or business intelligence focused role
• 3+ years creating BI dashboards and reports with a focus on data visualization and storytelling with a high proficiency using Power BI
• 3+ years writing SQL queries for data mining
• 3+ years’ experience collecting and documenting business requirements
• Mortgage experience preferred

Required Skills

• Intermediate proficiency with Power BI:
• Understand how to navigate semantic models
• Understand/create dynamic measures using DAX
• Power Query for data sourcing/transformation
• Row-level security implementation
• Calculation groups
• Data visualization
• Intermediate level proficiency with SQL (T-SQL):
• Standard select queries
• Joins across multivariate datasets including multiple keys
• Data normalization
• Window functions and methods
• Strong written and verbal communication skills

This opportunity is fully remote with the option to work from our offices in San Diego, CA, Irvine, CA, or Omaha, NE for those who prefer an office environment. You will be joining a dynamic, fully remote team which is distributed across pacific and central time zones and supporting our business across all US time zones.

Applicants must be authorized to work in the US without the need for sponsorship.

• Vacation — Vacation hours accrue on a per pay period basis. Balance maximums are based on years of service.
• Paid Sick Time — 40 hours of paid sick time after 90 days of employment. State sick time requirements will be added as needed.
• 9 Paid Holidays + 1 Cultural Celebration Day (Floating Holiday)
• Multiple PPO Medical Plans, as well as HDHP eligible plan.
• Dental Coverage
• Vision Coverage
• Company Paid Life Insurance
• 401K with a generous employer match
• Additional Benefits including – Optional Life, FSA, Pet Insurance etc.
• Free Legal Services
• Employee Loan Program