Job Description:

Job Description:

Our client is seeking a Lead Reporting Services Support Analyst.  This is for a 3 month right to hire position.

Duties and Responsibilities:  

• Partner with internal and external customers to provide data solutions to business questions.
• Deliver reporting, ad hoc and strategic deliverables with recommendations and interpretation.
• Ensure adherence to RSS processes and performance metrics.
• Mine data to recommend data quality and process improvements.
• Collaborate with project management team to appropriate estimate, schedule, monitor and resource reporting deliverables within an overall project plan.
• Review reports for trends, outliers, quality, data structure, report validity  and data details.
• Facilitate meetings and present reporting and data solutions to internal and external clients.
• Recommend reporting process improvement opportunities.
• Act as subject matter expert on applicable programs they support in data structure, analytics, data mining, reporting and operational process as it translates into meaningful data.
• Mentor, train and support business and users of data.
• Work closely with Operations, Client and IT to address data integrity issues.
• Negotiate and build consensus

Knowledge, Skills and Abilities:

• SQL
• SAS
• MS Access (Optional)
• MS Excel
• MS SQL Analyzer (Optional)
• MS Visual Studio and Reporting Services or other reporting BI tools
• Analytical skills to critically evaluate information
• Problem solving ideas to facilitate issue resolution
• Organizational skills to work with a vast array of information and to cope with rapidly changing information
• Writing skills to communicate information effectively to all stakeholders and technical team
• Listening skills  - ability to distinguish presented user requests from the underlying true need and distinguish solution ideas from requirements
• Detail-oriented, great attention to details
• Ability to collaborate and interact with associates at all levels and build strong business liaisons
• Excellent communication skills both in writing and orally

Minimum Qualifications:

• Bachelor's degree in Business, Statistics, Math or a related field and ten(10) years of experience in research, information analysis or program evaluation; OR,Master’s degree in a related field and five (5) years of experience in research, information analysis or program evaluation; OR, any equivalent combination of education and/or experience from which comparable knowledge, skills and abilities have been achieved