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Assurance Data Analytics & Emerging Methods - Extractions Senior Associate

Bdo Usa, Llp
Full-time
On-site
Washington, United States
Description

Job Summary:


BDO is a place for energetic self-starters who can think of creative and imaginative solutions for the challenges and opportunities facing an Assurance practice built for the 21st century.  We focus exclusively on the design and delivery of tools that help us collaborate with each other and with our clients; that direct our attention on things that matter most; and that integrate with increasingly automated workflows.  Our innovation portfolio is designed people-first to support our professionals in performing effective, efficient and technology enabled work that is evaluative, insightful, and impactful. 


As a member of the BDO Advantage Audit Data Analytics & Emerging Methods team, the Data Extraction professional works with our most important resources – our people and our clients - to facilitate data extraction using defined tools, services, methodologies, and workflows for consumption by the BDO analytics platforms.   The Data Extraction professional also participates in the design and development of our solutions.


We believe in a collaborative, flexible, inclusive, curious, growth-oriented culture with accountability to each other and to our goal of modernizing the way our professionals work.  We approach every business problem with blinding originality.


The successful candidate is able to communicate effectively with a broad audience and possesses excellent organizational skills and the ability to prioritize multiple tasks, projects and assignments, as well strong business ethics and willingness to adhere to and design stringent process standards.



Job Duties:


Typical responsibilities will include:



  • Works with our most valuable resources – our people and our clients - to implement and support data extraction tools and workflows and application of recommended solutions for a variety of general ledger and subledger systems

  • Manage the process of identifying and extracting client data based on analytic requirements using data analysis, research, and technical extraction skills.


  • Data preparation and routing into the BDO analytics platforms

  • Identifies, triages, and resolves support requests

  • Establishes and maintains customer satisfaction methods and information



Qualifications, Knowledge, Skills and Abilities:


Education:





Experience:




  • One (1) or more years of experience with the following Azure data analytics resources, preferred

  • Azure Data Factory or Databricks 

  • Azure SQL Database 

  • Azure Storage Accounts / Data Lakes

  • Power BI or Azure Analysis Services or Azure Synapse Analytics

  • Two (2) or more years of accounting, audit, finance, or equivalent experience, preferred


License/Certifications:



  • Certified Information Systems Analyst certification, preferred


Software:



  • Previous experience integrating data from ERP systems such as SAP, Oracle, Sage Intacct, NetSuite, or QBO using analytics tools like Power BI and Tableau, preferred

  • Working knowledge of various ERP systems and accounting packages, preferred

  • MS Excel and Power BI data cleansing techniques, preferred

  • Ability to write SQL queries and manage large data sets within SQL Server, preferred


Language:



  • N/A


Other Knowledge, Skills & Abilities:



  • Ability to adapt, self-motivate, and learn new tools

  • Ability to communicate effectively with a broad audience ranging from technical to non-technical

  • Passionate about data and solving client problems


  • Presentation and meeting facilitation skills

  • Ability to work in a deadline-driven environment 

  • Ability to work well under pressure while dealing with unexpected problems in a professional manner

  • High level of curiosity and eagerness to learn

  • Ability to write and produce technical documents with experience in demonstrating technical solutions to end-users

  • Ability to perform data quality checks and identify and analyze data anomalies

  • Ability to interact effectively with people at all organizational levels of the Firm

  • Good knowledge of testing and quality assurance for new development of data extraction procedures