Genesis10 is currently seeking a Data Analyst Senior with a Major Financial Institution located in McLean, VA. This is a 6 month fully onsite contract opportunity.
Summary: Our client is currently seeking an experienced Financial/Data Analyst Senior for a large strategic financial project. The candidate will support project management activities and initiatives, with a focus on financial & capital reporting and forecasting. This role will entail project management activities as well as complex data analysis, reconciliations and testing. In addition, the candidate's duties will include activities throughout the development lifecycle and production support, coordinating directly with key business area and IT partners.
Our Impact: The Capital Markets division supports the liquidity of the mortgage markets and makes funding more available by purchasing mortgage-related securities guaranteed by our client and other
financial institutions in its investment portfolio. The Business Technology Office supports all of the technology for this division.
Role & Responsibilities: - Outstanding proficiency with Excel for data analysis of complex datasets, data quality validation, data reconciliations, and data transformation for inputs and outputs of forecasting processes
- Collect and write detailed data transformation and financial process requirements
- Create high-quality and high-complexity project deliverables, focused on requirements, reconciliations and test results
- Create and maintain technical, process and data-related documentation
- Support acceptance testing; create and execute test cases, reconciliations and regressions; analyze and reconcile complex test results using Excel and SQL
- Improve and automate validations and input preparation processes
- Maintain, update and track development features and stories in JIRA
- Troubleshoot, track and resolve project issues, project dependencies and configuration changes
- Lead the analysis, requirements and testing of financial reports using SQL and advanced Excel
- Perform complex data and reports analysis involving financial, forecasting and risk data
- Create engaging and detailed materials including user guides, specification documents, release notes and testing results
- Support a variety of project management activities, including control requirements and execution, issue troubleshooting and analysis, data conversion and cataloging, and user training.
Requirements: - Degree in accounting, quantitative finance, statistics, mathematics, economics, data analytics or a related quantitative field preferred, with at least 5 years of relevant work experience.
- Extensive experience using advanced Excel efficiently is required
- Experience working with large data sets and relational databases
- Outstanding quantitative, analytical, and problem-solving skills
- Excellent presentation, communication and writing skills
- Ability to use SQL to query and display large data sets while maximizing the performance of workbooks
- Proven experience writing SQL to query complex data structures and working with analytics
- Expertise with financial statements and general ledger/subledger data is strongly preferred
- Ability to translate complex business requirements into technical specifications
- Outstanding attention to detail and accuracy
- Experience working with different databases and understanding of data and financial reporting concepts
- Experience with implementing or modifying financial systems or applications, preferably related to accounting functions
- Strong data and financial analytical skills; Ability to quickly understand complex financial concepts; Mortgage industry experience preferred
Key to success in this role: - Champion in leveraging Excel workbooks to analyze large datasets and create reconciliations and reports
- Ability to juggle and prioritize large number of activities of varying scope
- Ability to focus on precision, accuracy, reliability, delivery and schedule
- Outstanding ability to leverage data to validate code and processes
- Phenomenal teammate with a positive attitude!
Pay rate up to: $66.37 hourly.
If you have the described qualifications and are interested in this exciting opportunity, please apply! Ranked a Top Staffing Firm in the U.S. by Staffing Industry Analysts for six consecutive years, Genesis10 puts thousands of consultants and employees to work across the United States every year in contract, contract-for-hire, and permanent placement roles. With more than 300 active clients, Genesis10 provides access to many of the Fortune 100 firms and a variety of mid-market organizations across the full spectrum of industry verticals.
For contract roles, Genesis10 offers the benefits listed below. If this is a perm-placement opportunity, our recruiter can talk you through the unique benefits offered for that particular client. Benefits of Working with Genesis1 0: - Access to hundreds of clients, most who have been working with Genesis10 for 5-20 years.
- The opportunity to have a career-home in Genesis10; many of our consultants have been working exclusively with Genesis10 for years.
- Access to an experienced, caring recruiting team (more than 7 years of experience, on average.)
- Behavioral Health Platform
- Medical, Dental, Vision
- Health Savings Account
- Voluntary Hospital Indemnity (Critical Illness & Accident)
- Voluntary Term Life Insurance
- 401K
- Sick Pay (for applicable states/municipalities)
- Commuter Benefits (Dallas, NYC, SF)
For multiple years running, Genesis10 has been recognized as a Top Staffing Firm in the U.S., as a Best Company for Work-Life Balance, as a Best Company for Career Growth, for Diversity, and for Leadership, amongst others. To learn more and to view all our available career opportunities, please visit us at our website.
Genesis10 is an Equal Opportunity Employer. Candidates will receive consideration without regard to their race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, or status as a protected veteran.
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