Information Data System Analyst

Information Data System Analyst needs 7 plus years of experience in data and business analysis and around financial applications especially in Investment Accounting

Information Data System Analyst requires:

• 7 plus years of experience in data and business analysis and around financial applications especially in Investment Accounting
• 7 plus years of Data Management, Metadata and Data Quality experience
• 7 plus years of experience with Data Warehousing and Business Intelligence Technology
• 7 plus years with Production Support of Batched Software Environment
• Knowledge of data structures, management and analysis techniques
• Knowledge structured data, such as entities, classes, hierarchies, relationships and metadata
• Knowledge of database management system (DBMS) physical implementation, including tables, joins and SQL querying
• Ability to combine data from multiple sources when needed for the analysis
• Superior understanding of Financial Applications and their inter-workings
• Bachelors degree or equivalent work experience
• Management experience working in a fast paced IT environment
• Ability to facilitate and lead technical discussions
• Strong understanding of issue management
• Doman knowledge of the Financial Services Industries and Retirement Plans a plus
• Ability to work effectively and accurately
• Effective organizational and interpersonal skills
• Experience with PeopleSoft financials modules is a plus
• Preferable knowledge of Oracle Technologies
• Preferable experience in using ERWIN

Desired Skills (Preferred not required):

• Strong domain knowledge in Financial Applications
• Excellent team player with good organizational, analytical and logical skill
• A minimum of a bachelor of science in CS, Math, CIS/MIS or equivalent degree from accredited four year institution
• Typically 7 years of experience in data management, application development, metadata, systems technology analysis, with an understanding of current technologies
• Ability to handle multiple tasks and to work independently as well as in a team

Information Data System Analyst duties:

• Lead the design and provide oversight of the End to End Data Flow and engagements with Business and Tech groups for the Finance and Actuarial Organization

• Support the Data Delivery build-out and provide leadership and functional management to the Development and Support Team

• Lead the creation of Financial Data repositories to support the business for internal and external financial reporting

• Identify Data Quality, business process gaps and improvement opportunities using data to build business value propositions and business cases

• Consult with Data Stewards to collect, publish business terms and business rules

• Establish knowledge transfer sessions and identify opportunities to expand the adoption of Data Governance, Data Quality and Metadata capabilities to the company

• Provide advice and insight on improving data quality and metadata with the business and tech teams

• Analyze/Interpret data requirements and perform current/target/gap/impact analysis

• Liaison between Enterprise Data Management and Finance and Actuarial Data and Process Governance teams

• Articulate business data needs, gaps, impact across all areas and proposals to close gaps

• Identify data anomalies and communicate back to the data stewards

• Ensure the traceability of individual data requirements and adherence to the defined requirements

• Identify/escalate and or manage conflicts, issues and changes in order to appropriately manage scope

• Achieve consensus on scope changes and achieve signoff by all stakeholders

• Investigate, evaluate and support prioritization of client requests for new or existing solutions

• Manage risk associated with application development activities by proactively identifying potential impact to project and take appropriate actions to leverage or mitigate risk