IT Business Reporting Analyst
Company: Living Spaces
Location: La Mirada
Posted on: June 18, 2022
Job Description:
Current Living Spaces Employees: Please apply via your internal
Workday Account.Living Spaces is a growing home furnishing brand
and we continue to open new locations. We know in order to stay
current with the times and trends, we have to perpetually update
our look and selection. What has truly sustained our growth - from
1 to over 20 locations, from 100 employees to over 2,000, from a
humble home furnishings store to a widely recognized and respected
lifestyle brand - are the talented individuals who have taken us
there. We are looking for innovative, driven, and passionate
professionals to join our team so we can reach even greater heights
together.
We believe that a great team member experience leads to an even
better guest experience. That is why we place a huge emphasis on
building a great culture within our teams. Our ideal candidate will
have natural talent: meaning, they possess the capacity and
commitment, along with an openness to being coached around skills
that will ensure they delight and exceed the expectations of our
guests in all areas of Living Spaces business. We also believe in
our team members taking ownership of their performance and how that
contributes to the overall success of their role.Position
SummaryThe Reporting Analyst will help drive critical business
decisions by gathering and designing report data requirements while
interacting with the business regularly. This person will be
responsible for validating and modeling report data for the purpose
of understanding the business needs of Retail, helping shape
decisions/ solutions that enhance proficiency and efficiency. The
ideal candidate for this role enjoys training users and should
possess hands-on experience working with Tableau, Power BI, Alteryx
tools, and have familiarity with SQL. The Reporting Analyst will
work collaboratively to help build an effective strategy of data
collection, analysis, and reporting that support business
needs.Position DescriptionEssential Duties and Responsibilities
include the following. Other duties may be assigned.
- Organize and transform information into comprehensible data
structures
- Requirement gathering of relevant information from business
stakeholders to support leadership in making effective, data-driven
decisions
- Accurately analyze and collect data for various types of
business reports, examining reports regularly to locate and resolve
mistakes
- Communicate with stakeholders to understand data content and
business requirements
- Support end-to-end integration testing by comparing data in
reports with the source system to find corrupt data, mismatches,
and root cause
- Support User Acceptance Testing by addressing any technical
queries or fixing bugs if any
- Create/ produce a variety of easy-to-understand training
documentation, basic business report graphs and dashboard templates
that provide insight into key data points, convey analytic results,
and align with business needs.
- Identify and recommend opportunities for the business to
streamline analytics processes, reporting efficiencies and drive
continuous improvement
- Follow best practices and established policies in data
analysis, maintenance, and data quality
- Consistently create and maintain technical documentation of
productive dashboards
- Work closely with Data Integration & Engineering team to
understand data sets and nuances critical for understanding how
data is structured and to be used in way that it is correctly
interpreted
- Provide guidance to existing reports (updating dates, adding
new fields to data sources, applying new filters when requested,
keeping reports up to date), based on the needs of the
business
- Mine data by importing, cleaning, transforming, and validating
data from a variety of sources (i.e., Excel, Tableau, Alteryx, or
other statistical tools)
- Assess effectiveness and accuracy of new data sources and data
gathering techniques; create additional data collection methods as
needed (including use of Office 365).
- Identify opportunities for data standardization to enable more
efficient data analysis across all job functions
- Work cross functionally to develop and execute analytical
reporting and analytics capabilities to drive strategy aligning
with overall business goals and objectives
- Handle day-to-day ad hoc report related requests received
through ticketing system from store and corporate leadership.
- Strong analytical skills that allow for the development of
data-driven reports
- Demonstrated time management & critical thinking skills;
ability to prioritize multiple projects at once to effectively meet
deadlinesQualificationsEducation/Experience: Bachelor's degree (B.
A. or B. S.) or equivalent from four-year college in Business,
Retail Management, Data Science, Mathematics or related field. 1-3
years of experience developing dashboards using Tableau, Power BI,
Alteryx or other data reporting tools. Experience creating/
maintaining technical documentation of productive dashboards. A/B
testing experience for enabling data-driven decisions, positive
impacts, and driving business metrics. Experience in
object-oriented programming and other data analysis programs.
Knowledge of business operations, objective, strategy, process, and
information flow. Equivalent combination of education and
experience will be considered.Computer Skills: To perform this job
successfully, an individual must have Proficient in Microsoft 365
including, Excel, Word, PowerPoint, and SharePoint. Possess
hands-on experience working with Tableau, Power BI, and Alteryx
tools. Basic to intermediate experience working with
SQLCertificates and Licenses: Tableau Desktop Certification
(Associate/Professional) or PowerBI Certification or Alteryx
Certification is a plus but not required.Equal Opportunity
EmployerIt is our policy to abide by all federal, state, and local
laws prohibiting employment discrimination based solely on a
person's race, color, religious creed, sex, national origin,
ancestry, citizenship status, pregnancy, physical disability,
mental disability, age, military status, or status as a Vietnam-era
or special disabled veteran, marital status, registered domestic
partner or civil union status, gender (including sex stereotyping
and gender identity or expression), medical condition (including
but not limited to, cancer related or HIV/AIDS related), sexual
orientation, or any other protected status except where a
reasonable, bona fide occupational qualification
exists.E-VerifyLiving Spaces participates in E-Verify. All
newly-hired team members are queried through this electronic system
established by the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) and the
Social Security Administration (SSA) to verify their identity and
employment eligibility.
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