Finance Data Analyst

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**Description**

**Guardian Industries**, a global company headquartered in Auburn Hills, Michigan, employs more than 17,000 people and operates facilities throughout North America, Europe, South America, Africa, the Middle East and Asia. Guardian's diverse group of companies are involved in the manufacture of high-performance float, coated and fabricated glass products and the manufacture of high-quality chrome-plated and painted plastic components for the automotive and commercial truck industries. Guardian's vision is to create value for customers and society through constant innovation using fewer resources. Guardian is a wholly owned subsidiary of Koch Industries, Inc.

Guardian is looking for a **Finance Data Analyst** based close to any Guardian location in Europe (hybrid work).

You will serve as a _data & analytics engagement partner_ for your internal customers and bring an end-to-end perspective to make sure our data strategies create competitive advantage. We expect that you come along-side your customers to educate them on the value of effective analytics, prioritize work and help leaders 'work backwards' from the opportunity to capture the right data and design solutions that improve our responsiveness and decision making. The ability to realize this will be built on a _foundational _base of trusted data with BI and advanced analytics developed incrementally over time.

So, as a successful engagement leader you should be supporting customer teams on a journey where Guardian learns how to maximize the return on its investment in data by using information to make better, faster, and more profitable decisions.

**What You Will Do In Your Role**:

- Help prioritize activities based on value and be involved with decision makers through end-to-end process from creative ideation all the way through to delivery on BI, Advanced Analytics and other data related assets.
- Continuous communication with the internal customers to understand their processes, value drivers, initiatives and priorities, problems they are trying to solve, etc. and make sure they get the data products or solutions they need to succeed. Validate backlog priorities with them and provide feedback on progress.
- Lead the pod cross-functional team to work on the right priorities. Organize and understand the resources you will need to deliver the products. Manage and keep up to date your backlog (Azure DevOps as tool).
- Collaborate with business partners to identify gaps and formulate sustainable solutions that align with current business priorities and vision.
- Frame and document opportunities (demand), estimate value creation, key factors, and assign priority.
- Develop frameworks, roadmaps, and actionable requirements and project decomposition for modeling & visualization, engineering, governance, and ITSystems Dev. teams through execution of data needs.
- Initial testing (fit for function).
- Organizational change management and delivery of developed work products.
- Ensure users education on the solution, monitor adoption and support on its effective usage.
- Grow, through influence, a data enablement mindset across the organization and mentor others on how to think about data needs.
- Reinforce data governance (Master data and enrichment) and ensure global compliance of framework.
- Involvement in system implementations and/or decommissions in what refers to data related.

**The Experience You Will Bring**:
**Requirements**:

- Bachelor's Degree (Finance, Accounting or Mathematics preferred but not exclusive).
- Work experience in finance (costing and reporting preferable).
- Strong collaboration and communication skills and ability to work within cross functional teams.
- Highly organized and able to manage the functional team's work items. Problem solving oriented.
- Knowledge of fundamental data modeling concepts (relational and dimensional) and understanding of SQL.
- Knowledge of fundamental data visualization tools (e.g. Power BI) and data analytics tools (e.g. Alteryx) a plus.
- Ability to manage multiple priorities and assess and adjust quickly to changes or challenges.
- Able to hold accountable, keep positive attitude, open minded and honest, able to embrace new challenges.
- Strong economic thinking skills.
- Effective oral and written communication skills in English. Other languages a plus.
- Eagerness to learn new skills.