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Who We Are Boston Consulting Group partners with leaders in business and society to tackle their most important challenges and capture their greatest opportunities. BCG was the pioneer in business strategy when it was founded in 1963. Today, we help clients with total transformation-inspiring complex change, enabling organizations to grow, building competitive advantage, and driving bottom-line impact. To succeed, organizations must blend digital and human capabilities. Our diverse, global teams bring deep industry and functional expertise and a range of perspectives to spark change. BCG delivers solutions through leading-edge management consulting along with technology and design, corporate and digital ventures—and business purpose. We work in a uniquely collaborative model across the firm and throughout all levels of the client organization, generating results that allow our clients to thrive. What You'll Do Be a part of a large-scale enterprise transformation at BCG! BCG is on a multiyear journey to replace our current ERP system with SAP S4 Hana on the cloud. Our team is a key part of this transformational program, focusing on building a Finance Enterprise Data warehouse to enable the next generation of reporting for BCG. Part of an overall Business Intelligence and Analytics function, this team is focused on change and incorporating it into our current suite of products or building new products! The Product Analyst role will be an integral part of an Agile team focused on the successful delivery of this work. Teaming with both the business, our data engineers, and solution architects to create the best in class data solutions. The work is iterative, intellectually intense, fast paced, highly visible and very impactful to the firm’s success Under the leadership of the Product Owner for the Business Intelligence & Analytics Change Team, the Product Analyst will be core to a team incorporating new Financial applications and lines of analysis into our existing business intelligence data warehouse and suite of digital products. A focal point for this role will be teaming closely with Finance leadership, Finance Application owners, and Digital Business Intelligence teams to understand overall business needs, decision making, and analytical capabilities needed. As part of that work, it would include supporting medium to large projects through the full development lifecycle of design, development, testing, deployment, training, and continued ongoing end user support Responsibilities Would Include Helping to determine the reporting use cases our new financial tools will provide and how these capabilities integrate with our existing Business Intelligence warehouse and digital products. Includes understanding the data models of our Financial source systems and how we translate this into a scalable business intelligence product for our users Working with key finance stakeholders and application owners to gather and document business requirements; Defining the form, content, and capabilities provided in our BI solution. Identify key changes and impacts to our existing reporting capabilities and products. Developing comprehensive implementation plans along with delivering the output as defined in the project’s goals and objectives Analyzing gaps between prioritized analytical capabilities and our financial application’s data models. Generating possible solution options for review with the team’s Product owner Understanding multiple data sources and putting together practical and viable data models to support analytical analysis. This would include understanding data mapping and translation from source to target state Thorough testing and validation of our integrated BI solutions throughout the development lifecycle. Diving deep into root cause analysis when issues do arise Providing support to a diverse worldwide user base while partnering with technical team to troubleshoot data issues and redesign processes What You'll Bring Bachelor’s degree in Business Intelligence, Finance, Accounting, or Information Systems 3-5 years of Business Intelligence, finance and/or reporting relevant experience; less experience considered for exceptional performers Sound analytical and reporting skills combined with excellent communication skills; written and oral Proven ability to work effectively in a global environment with people at all levels, preferably in a professional services organization Strong experience with enterprise software and business intelligence solutions Experience in reading and writing SQL and other coding languages Who You'll Work With As a member of the Business Intelligence & Analysis Team, you will interact extensively with a diverse range of stakeholders from across the business, both geographically and functionally. This includes, but is not limited to Local, Regional, Global, and Practice Area Finance teams. As well, as part of the overall Business Intelligence and analysis team coordinating and working with our other core BIA squads will play a large part in this role. Additional info YOU’RE GOOD AT Problem solving and analytical tasks Ability to structure hypothesis, build thoughtful analyses and bring clarity to previously undefined problems Desire and flexibility to work through details with keen attention to accuracy Natural curiosity to understand how things work and why; our data, our processes, and our reports. Desire to comprehend root causes when issues arise Comfortable working with ambiguity and in an iterative environment Communication, interpersonal and teaming skills Works positively and collaboratively with others and within team; builds strong and lasting relationships Adapts style to changing situations and audiences with tact, poise, and patience. Demonstrates persistence to drive change. Contributes to a positive and productive work environment Leverages network effectively across functions, offices, regions and/or externally Work Management, organization, and planning Must be able to perform successfully in a fast-paced, intellectually intense, service-oriented environment Strong Organizational skills and process management skills Ability to contribute to multiple work streams at once and prioritize efforts accordingly. Demonstrated ability to drive projects to scheduled conclusion Boston Consulting Group is an Equal Opportunity Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, age, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity / expression, national origin, disability, protected veteran status, or any other characteristic protected under national, provincial, or local law, where applicable, and those with criminal histories will be considered in a manner consistent with applicable state and local laws. BCG is an E - Verify Employer. Click here for more information on E-Verify. Show more Show less
