Business Intelligence Reporting Analyst (Power BI)

Business Intelligence Reporting Analyst (Power BI)


Compensation Range: $65,000 - $85,000


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%)


Meet with business leaders/users to understand their needs and requirements


Build effective and efficient reports and dashboards using best practices in data presentation and design


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


5+ years’ experience in a data or business intelligence focused role


5+ 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


Required Skills


Advanced level proficiency with Power BI:

Building efficient semantic models


Understand/create dynamic measures using DAX


Power Query for data sourcing/transformation


Row-level security implementation


Calculation groups


Data visualization


Performance Analyzer


DAX Studio

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.