Decision Intelligence Strategist, Experienced Manager

Oak Brook

Illinois

28588BR

Job Summary

BDO’s Core Purpose is Helping People Thrive Every Day. Our Core Values reflect how we manage our work, our relationships and ourselves. As an employee of the firm, you will live true to our Core Values of people first, being exceptional every day in every way, embracing change, feeling empowered through knowledge and choosing accountability. Our Core Values are the standards by which we conduct ourselves day in and day out, both internally and externally. BDO Digital, LLC, a subsidiary of BDO USA, LLP, provides a holistic portfolio of technology, transformation services and solutions. We are an organization that values your time, talent, and contributions. Collaborate with BDO Digital’s cross-disciplinary team who work together to solve digital needs and unearth new opportunities to drive competitive advantage. Our commitment to each other is why BDO Digital is a recognized leader for our culture, employee satisfaction and career growth. We’re looking for people with the same drive; to combine teamwork with technology to produce amazing results. There are many world-class accounting and advisory firms, far fewer that offer a culture so rich in professional opportunity, personal fulfillment, and long-term growth. BDO understands that exceptional service to our clients begins and ends with exceptional regard for our people. At its core, our business is not about numbers or spreadsheets, but people working with, for and in service of others. BDO Digital’s Data & AI practice helps clients to grow revenue and profitability and mitigate risk through data-driven initiatives. The Decision Intelligence group’s main goal is to help clients develop a data-driven culture around decision making that enhances quality, speed, and accuracy of said decisions. Whether that is done through alignment of business strategy to their data needs, visualizing their KPIs and key trends through dashboards, conducting data investigations to align their financials with their operational data and address data quality and risk concerns, data governance assessments, automation services such as automating processes and dataflows and building bots for them, data engineering and architecture services such as setting up central data platforms or migrating their entire data ecosystem onto one platform, AI services such as predictive modeling for supply chain, sales, operational costs, etc., or offering a one stop shop for all of the above services, the Decision Intelligence group is there to support the client in their journey to a data-driven decision making culture by marshalling all of the varied services BDO Digital has to offer. The Decision Intelligence Strategist is an entrepreneurial-minded individual who works with the practice leads to fulfill clients’ needs within all the above-mentioned areas (and more). This role is also responsible for developing project plans for clients, processing, querying, and analyzing data, working with the project managers, interacting with clients, successfully delivering projects, and researching trends and new tools as well as programs to advance the skills and knowledge of the entire group. In short, the Decision Intelligence Strategist is someone who believes nothing is impossible, loves to tell data-driven stories, has a clear understanding of how to interpret data to glean insights, wants to help clients in their journeys to a better data ecosystem, is a self-starter, and views challenges and obstacles as opportunities for growth and reward.

Qualifications

Education:
- High School Diploma or GED equivalent, required
- Bachelor’s degree, preferred; focus on Computer Science, Information Systems, Data Analytics, Data Science, Economics, Statistics, preferred
- MBA or other relevant advanced degree, preferred Experience:
- Eight (8) or more years of experience in client-facing consulting within data analytics, business intelligence, and/or data investigations services, required
- Three (3) or more years of experience leading projects, required
- Three (3) or more years of consulting experience or implementation of cloud-based data analytics solutions, preferred
- Prior financial and/or economic analysis, business valuation, public accounting, and/or forensic analytics, preferred
- Experience in maintaining client relationships, preferred
- Experience in the following areas, preferred:
- Business Intelligence
- Data Warehousing
- Fraud Analytics
- Data Visualization
- Decision Intelligence
- IT/Financial Systems management
- Management consulting
- Strategy consulting
- Business Process Modeling
- Data Science
- Automation License/Certifications:
- SQL, preferred
- Power BI/Tableau certification, preferred
- Azure/AWS certification, preferred
- Alteryx, Preferred Software:
- Proficient with Microsoft Office Suite, required
- Strong SQL skills in querying and analyzing data, and understanding of data relationships, required
- Experience with one or more visualization tools (PowerBI, Tableau, Visio), required
- Experience with one or more cloud platforms (Azure, AWS, or Google Cloud Platform), preferred
- Experience with one or more programming languages (such as R, Python, etc.), preferred Other Knowledge, Skills & Abilities:
- Strong project management and client relationship management skills
- Ability to work with a high degree of professionalism and autonomy
- Excellent verbal and written communication skills
- Solid organizational skills, especially the ability to meet project deadlines with a focus on details
- Ability to successfully multi-task while working independently or within a group environment
- Ability to interact effectively with people at all organizational levels of the Firm
- Ability to effectively manage a team of professionals and delegating work assignments, as needed
- Ability to build and maintain strong relationships with internal and client personnel
- Ability to encourage a team environment on engagements, and contribute to the professional development of assigned personnel
- Executive presence, with the ability to act as primary contact on assigned engagements