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Job Title: Senior Business Data Analyst
Job Summary:
Heitmeyer Consulting is currently seeking an experienced Senior Business Data Analyst for a contract-to-hire opportunity with one of our financial services clients. Thise individual serves as a critical liaison between business stakeholders and technology teams, ensuring that data-driven initiatives are clearly defined, understood, and successfully delivered. This role operates in a highly data-intensive environment and is responsible for translating business needs into actionable requirements while advocating for the strategic value of data across the organization.
Key Responsibilities:
- Act as the primary point of contact between business units and technology teams to support data-related initiatives.
- Partner closely with a Product Owner within an agile environment to define, refine, and prioritize work.
- Gather, analyze, and document business requirements, ensuring they are clear, complete, and consumable by technical teams for development.
- Translate complex data concepts into understandable insights for non-technical stakeholders, emphasizing the importance and value of data as a business asset.
- Advocate for data quality, governance, and proper usage across business functions.
- Develop a deep understanding of data flows, including how data moves from source systems through transformation processes to end-user reporting.
- Support the design and validation of reporting solutions to ensure alignment with business needs.
- Collaborate with cross-functional teams to ensure successful delivery of data products and solutions.
Basic Qualifications:
- Proven experience as a Business Data Analyst or similar role in a data-heavy environment.
- Experience working within the banking or financial services industry, with strong familiarity in handling and interpreting financial data.
- Strong understanding of end-to-end data lifecycle, including data sourcing, transformation, and reporting.
- Demonstrated ability to write clear, concise business requirements and functional documentation for technical audiences.
- Advanced proficiency in Microsoft Excel, including data analysis, modeling, and reporting.
- Experience working in agile methodologies and collaborating with Product Owners and development teams.
- Strong communication skills with the ability to explain complex data concepts to business stakeholders.
Heitmeyer Consulting is an equal opportunity employer and we encourage all qualified candidates to apply. Qualified applicants will be considered without regard to minority status, gender, disability, veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by law.