Senior Business Analyst

Job title: Senior Business Analyst

Location: Dallas, TX (2 days per week onsite)

Duration: 36 months

Job Profile:

- Sr. Business Analyst, Marketing Finance Ops is a highly analytical and self-motivated role who should be comfortable with managing large sets of data and reports, demonstrating abilities to work across multiple functions as well as skip-level management.

- The ideal candidate will excel in dealing with large sets of manual and system data, advanced in excel, Power Query and have solid experience with Power BI, ensure financial data accuracy, and streamline reporting processes.

- Strong business acumen, financial understanding are also appreciated.

- This position will support studio finance lead in supporting multi-level of business partners in terms of scoping and budget planning, manage ongoing relationships with internal and external stakeholders.

Key Roles and Responsibilities:

Prepares studio wide financial and operational reports and data masters, ensuring timely daily/weekly and monthly reporting - maintains and releases weekly studio BI reports

Ensures the appropriate level of accuracy in production reporting, working directly with business and production team to validate and consolidate data, working directly with account and operation managers

Develops report visualization through power BI to enhance reporting efficiency, consolidating existing reports into dashboards

Supports to revamp or build new reports to support the financial and operational success of the studio

Gathers and interprets financial and operational information by performing complex data modeling and financial analysis.

Performs deep dives and route-cause analysis at channel and project level for variances

Supports the yearly scoping, budget, forecasting and month-end processes.

Owns IT hardware & software tracking, supports Gen AI investment planning and tracking

Supports to evaluate fiscal impact of new business opportunities, strategies, and investments, conducts highly complex work, analysis, ad hoc requests, and special projects with supervision.

Other ad hoc requests and special projects assigned

Qualifications and Requirements:

Bachelors in field related to Accounting, Business, or equivalent experience; master s and/or CPA preferred

5+ years of financial reporting, analysis, budget process, profitability, and cost management and financial modeling experience

Power query and power BI experience is a MUST, data Mining and systems experience preferred, ie. database management, use of pivot tables, and disparate data cleanup to prepare for analysis

Corporate marketing planning or management experience is highly appreciated and experience with labor-based project cost planning is a plus

Comfortable working independently and prioritizing projects and deliverables, but also thrive on working in a collaborative, entrepreneurial environment utilizing excellent written and verbal communication skills

Highly analytical, excellent deep dive and technical skills, the ability to articulate complex analyses in a clear and succinct manner

Advanced PC skills, including Microsoft Excel and Power point