Job description
Business Intelligence Reporting Analyst (Power BI)
Compensation Range: $65,000 - $80,000
We will not entertain compensation outside of the stated range
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 for our Sales team. 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 be responsible for reporting on sales leads and following their journey through the sales pipeline.
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. A strong ability to independently explore and understand new data sources is expected. 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 language
Semantic Model Design (15%)
Build semantic models for our CRM data to support reporting needs
Monitor model efficiency and implement changes as needed to optimize performance
Analysis (25%)
Identify pertinent trends to share with sales leaders
Proactively dive head first into data to offer deeper insights into high/low performing KPIs
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
Strong understanding of CRM systems and data
Ability to independently understand data through business context, exploration, and logical connections
Mortgage experience preferred
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.
We are unable to sponsor or take over sponsorship for this role.
