Finance - Senior Data/Reporting Analyst

V2Soft (www.v2soft.com) is a global company, headquartered out of Bloomfield Hills, Michigan, with locations in Mexico, Italy, India, China and Germany. At V2Soft, our mission is to provide high performance technology solutions to solve real business problems. We become our customer's true partner, enabling both parties to enjoy success. We are committed to promoting diversity in the workplace, and believe it has a positive effect on our company and the customers we serve.

Job Description:

• Responsible for interacting with key Finance and Controlling users to support the reporting needs within Mercedes Benz Financial Services including production, ad-hoc, and manual reporting

Job Responsibilities:

• Work with end users to document existing end user reporting applications in MS Excel and MS Access and identify data needs

• Trace and translate SQL and MS Access queries to data warehouse source tables

• Create detailed business and technical data dictionary for Finance and Controlling areas

• Analyze data needs to identify gaps and work with data warehouse and other IT/project teams to resolve gaps

• Generate reports and information for Finance and Controlling

• Development of COGNOS repots for Finance and Controlling accurately and within estimated development times and according to the approved scope specifications.

• Utilization of Cognos Report Studio, PowerPlay, MS Access, SQL, MS Excel, or VBA to develop new reports, update existing reports, and provide ad hoc support within the BICC environment.

• Work with the assigned business analyst to identify data availability and development issues with the report project prior to scope creation.

• Gather report requirements and create report specifications; provide estimated effort estimation of effort (in hours).

• Work with IT to publish reports to the COGNOS website.

• Create daily, weekly, or monthly reports according to delivery schedule. Reports must be accurate and within scheduled due dates.

• Resolve production issues for existing reports. Utilize COGNOS 10.1.1 components, PowerPlay, Access, SQL , EXCEL, or VBA to trouble shoot, modify or enhance existing production reports. Reports must be accurate and within scheduled due dates.

• Support BICC Team as requested with special initiatives/projects.

• Provide external support/extracts when necessary (including vendors, and brand partners)

• Work with Data Warehouse team as needed to define new data warehouse tables needed for reporting, including gathering requirements, documenting requirements, and user acceptance testing

• Improving the reporting environment by: capturing new change requests and locating the needed data within the data warehouse or source system.

• Understanding the file structure of the source systems to the extent necessary to extract and load the needed information.

• Update specifications and work with IT to validate the data stage and DM changes.

• Provide formal and informal reporting training for the user community.

• Manage the structure of COGNOS web portal to provide an easy and intuitive interface to the user community.

V2Soft is an Equal Opportunity Employer ( EOE).

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