Data Analyst, FP&A, Business Intelligence Dow Jones
New York, NY

Job Description

Job Description:

The FP&A (Financial Planning & Analysis) group is seeking a Data Analyst to support our Business Intelligence Lead in continuing to build out an exciting new function within the group while heavily partnering with our Knowledge Unit. This new function's mission will be to develop ease of access to revenue analytics and KPIs aligned to measuring Dow Jones' core strategies and success of the most important decisions being made in the business.

Responsibilities

* Focus on enhancing and delivering on a handful of key initial projects, including but not limited to KPI & Exec reporting, Strategy & Innovation team support, and B2B revenue reporting


* Help develop wider scope and projects, identify additional opportunities and measure against delivery of Business Intelligence roadmap according to timelines


* Revamp and build out revenue and KPI analysis to understand business performance measured against targets, strategies, and trends


* Develop understanding of data landscape across the company and key contributors


* Identify and make recommendations for upstream data improvement opportunities across various sources of data


* Enhance ability to understand the impacts and influence decision making of core strategies


* Drive process conversion from heavy use of excel and big data toward sophisticated, actionable dashboards and reporting using various available tools


* Pivot analysis to real time understanding of business performance


* Learn about past, current and future projects around data analytics across the business and become embedded in a number of them


* Become a key resource and build relationships across the FP&A team, data teams, and the wider business--become enveloped in ongoing and future projects involving data


* Help develop training and upskilling of BI capabilities for the FP&A team and wider business


* Help provide updates and presentations to key stakeholders, Senior Leadership, and Executive Management on delivery of the BI roadmap



Skills and Experience

* Team oriented and collaborative with eagerness to be challenged and learn


* Excellent communication skills with all levels of employees and management


* Bachelor's Degree or higher with a specialization in Statistics, Computer Science, Data Science, MIS (Management Information Systems) or related field


* Experience with data visualization tools and techniques, e.g. Tableau or similar tools


* Strong understanding of relational databases, SQL, and MS Excel


* Knowledge of specific systems a plus including Amazon S3, Amazon Redshift, Domo, Salesforce, Operative.One a plus


* Working knowledge of multiple analytics and programming languages such as R, Python, SAS, VBA, Julia, Java, Scala or similar a plus


* Media industry experience a plus



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Business Area: FINANCE

Job Category: Finance Group

About Us

Dow Jones is a global provider of news and business information, delivering content to consumers and organizations around the world across multiple formats, including print, digital, mobile and live events. Dow Jones has produced unrivaled quality content for more than 125 years and today has one of the world's largest news gathering operations globally. It produces leading publications and products including the flagship Wall Street Journal, America's largest newspaper by paid circulation; Factiva, Barron's, MarketWatch, Financial News, DJX, Dow Jones Risk & Compliance, Dow Jones Newswires, and Dow Jones VentureSource.Dow Jones is a division of News Corp (NASDAQ: NWS, NWSA; ASX: NWS, NWSLV).

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Req ID: 16509