Finance Expert

Financial Data Analyst Role

The primary goal of this position is to oversee the maintenance, usability, and governance of financial analytics workspaces within Microsoft Fabric and Power BI. This entails ensuring that data flows consistently and efficiently into datasets and semantic models, while also guaranteeing that reports within the analytics layer are well-managed, refreshed in a timely manner, and aligned with governance and performance standards.

• The successful candidate will collaborate closely with data modelers and analysts, as well as the Global Finance Solutions (GFS) Data Warehouse team and Global Technology & Digital Solutions (GTD), to ensure seamless transitions of data from upstream layers into analytics.
• This role plays a vital part in dataset documentation, user onboarding, and basic troubleshooting within the analytics workspaces.

Main Responsibilities:

Platform Operations and Administration

• The Financial Data Analyst will be responsible for managing and monitoring GFS analytics workspaces in Microsoft Fabric and/or Power BI, including workspace configuration, permission settings, capacity management, and overall platform performance.
• They will conduct performance testing and validation of artifacts in pre-production to minimize production issues.
• Collaboration with GTD will be necessary to ensure compliance with governance policies and support ongoing platform configuration needs.

Refresh Management and Artifact Maintenance

• The analyst will oversee data refresh schedules across GFS workspaces and coordinate with data modelers, report creators, and the Data Warehouse team to optimize refresh timing, reduce redundancy, and avoid capacity overloads.
• They will monitor refresh failures, flag misconfigurations, and manage Power BI gateway integrations to ensure consistent and stable operations aligned with platform standards.

Semantic Model Development and Support

• The Financial Data Analyst will assist the Business Analytics & Data Modeling team in building semantic models and datasets for analytics use.
• They will lead the application of performance optimization, scripting, and testing to ensure the models meet production-readiness standards and align with performance, usability, and governance expectations.

Innovation and User Enablement

• The analyst will research and evaluate new Power BI and Microsoft Fabric features to support platform improvement and adoption.
• Collaboration with GTD will be necessary to test and enable relevant capabilities.
• Support for user enablement will be provided by creating documentation, delivering training, onboarding users, and offering guidance on best practices.
• Gathering user feedback and monitoring usage will inform enhancements and promote self-service analytics.

Governance and Compliance

• Implementation of workspace naming conventions, lifecycle management rules, dataset certification, and periodic access reviews will be handled by the Financial Data Analyst.
• Maintenance of an inventory of analytics workspace artifacts to track ownership, usage, and lifecycle stage will be their responsibility.

Requirements:

• Bachelor's Degree in IT, Data Science, Information Systems, Computer Science or related field.
• Proven knowledge in using Business Intelligence tools preferably PowerBI.
• Strong technical skills in Microsoft Office.
• Excellent communication skills, both verbal and written at all levels with a high degree of accuracy and attention to detail: ability to communicate technical information to non-technical audiences.
• Superior organization, prioritization, and self-motivation skills.
• Strong communication and coordination skills to engage with different stakeholders.
• Experience in PowerBI or Microsoft Fabric environments, including 1 year in platform administration or governance.
• Experience with other business intelligence tools or financial software and reporting tools.
• Experience working in a cross-functional data environment, especially within finance or enterprise analytics domains.
• Experience managing PowerBI gateways, optimizing resource configurations, and collaborating with IT for platform integration and compliance.
• Certification in Microsoft Fabric, Power Platform, or Azure Data Fundamentals is a strong advantage.
• Working knowledge of DAX, Power Query (M), and semantic modeling best practices.
• Understanding of Azure Active Directory, row-level security, and PowerBI tenant settings.
• Ability to deliver training, documentation, and platform support to both technical and non-technical users.

About Us:

We envision a world where every child has life in its fullness. Our prayer for every heart is the will to make it so.

As a global Christian relief, development, and advocacy organisation, our focus is on helping the most vulnerable children overcome poverty and experience fullness of life.

We help children of all backgrounds, even in the most dangerous places, inspired by our Christian faith.

A career with us is a God-given calling, and we believe that every staff member has been brought to World Vision for God's purposes.

We celebrate and embrace each staff member's diverse background and talents – knowing that together, we can make a difference.

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