What are the responsibilities and job description for the Associate position at StevenDouglas?
StevenDouglas has been exclusively engaged on an outstanding Associate search with a top tier private equity firm in Austin, Texas. This role is on-site.
Business Intelligence (“BI”) tools are critical to enabling operational excellence and growth within this Firm's portfolio companies. This role is crucial in driving value creation through improving data availability, structure, and reporting capabilities to support strategic decision-making across our portfolio. The ideal candidate will be responsible for assisting in the development and maintenance of interactive dashboards and underlying data architecture for seamless reporting and analysis.
In order to be considered for this role, you must have:
- Proven ability to analyze complex data and translate it into actionable insights that drive strategy and decision-making.
- Previous experience working in a private equity-backed, growth company environment or exposure to private equity from a consulting perspective is a plus.
Responsibilities
- Assist with implementation, and management of data warehouses or other data management solutions that ensure seamless access to critical business data from all relevant sources.
- Assist with design, development, and maintenance of interactive and actionable PowerBI dashboards and other high-impact analyses.
- Optimize existing data structure / tables and ensure data is clean, structured, and accessible for decision-making, financial analysis, and reporting purposes.
- Identify opportunities to streamline reporting processes, automate data collection, and improve efficiency in accessing key performance indicators (KPIs).
- Help drive data strategy and product as it relates to data ingestion, warehousing, automation, governance, and BI reporting.
- Assist with the development and enforcement of data governance and best practices for data handling and reporting.
- Build capabilities and help drive continual technical and functional improvement of business users and IT personnel through training, knowledge transfer, and day-to-day issue resolution.
- Develop and maintain documentation for data sources, PowerBI dashboards, and data pipelines to ensure long-term sustainability and knowledge transfer.
Qualifications
- Bachelor’s or advanced degree in computer science, information technology, and/or finance/accounting.
- 2-5 years of experience in database management, data analytics and business intelligence role in consulting or private equity-backed corporate environment.
- Certifications in database programming (e.g. Oracle, MS SQL Server, etc.), cloud technology platforms (e.g. AWS, Azure, GCP, etc.), and/or data visualization tools (e.g. PowerBI, Tableau).
- Experience with modern big data approaches (e.g. PySpark, Apache Spark, Azure Databricks, Azure SQL, Azure ML, R, Python, Java, etc.) and / or basic programming (e.g. Python, R, SQL, Matlab, C , etc.) is a plus.