Senior Business Reporting Analyst Lead

Summary

the Senior Business Reporting Analyst Lead works with business partners within one or more business units to align technology solutions with business strategies.

Key Responsibilities

• Lead and manage business operations data, reporting, and analysis efforts for Technology.
• Knowledge of, and experience with, CIO level reporting needs, and the ability to create from new. This role will play a central role in helping to define and create meaningful executive reporting.
• Absolutely requires strong executive presence.
• While this is not a Finance role, strong familiarity with FP&A, forecasting, and budgeting is needed.
• Able to offer guidance and best practices while collaborating.
• Can see and understand the broader objective while working through the details to deliver the right reporting solution.
• Directly lead, coach, and mentor BMO analysts and reporting resources, including reviewing technical work and guiding problem-solving on reporting and data challenges.
• Own and support budget reporting, staffing reporting, workforce reporting, operational reporting, and spend reporting for the BMO and Technology organization, among others.
• Drive reporting automation initiatives to eliminate manual, spreadsheet-based processes; establish and enforce reporting standards, governance, and data quality frameworks.
• Understand and maintain knowledge of the reporting architecture across tools including AWS Athena, ServiceNow, SharePoint, Power Apps, Power Automate, and Excel; identify scalability and efficiency improvements.

Basic Qualifications

• Bachelor's Degree
• 8 to 12 years of related experience

Key Qualifications

• Ability to develop and enforce reporting standards, governance policies, and data quality practices.
• Ability to communicate effectively with executive and C-suite audiences, translating technical analysis into business narratives.
• Demonstrated ability to lead, coach, and develop analysts; experience as a working manager who remains a hands-on contributor.
• Tableau and Power BI experience required; hands-on practitioner who can personally build reports and dashboards.
• Experience with AWS Athena and SQL.
• Experience with Python for reporting automation and data processing.
• Familiarity with SharePoint, Power Apps, and Power Automate.