Analytics Translator - Reporting and Data Analytics

The opportunity The Senior Analytics Translator is a role within the Analytics Translation & Insights pillar of Global Analytic which at its core is designed to bridge the gap between business users and data science/advanced analytics. This role requires a deep understanding of both technical and business aspects of data analysis to translate complex insights into actionable recommendations. You will foster a data-driven culture by building strong relationships with stakeholders. As a client-centric trusted business advisor and D&A coach, you will empower clients to use our products independently and/or create fusion-analyses from a combination of them. You will be a natural communicator, adept at storytelling with data to gain stakeholder buy-in. You will proactively identify client needs and translate them into new use cases, sparking their interest with "Did you know? " type of insights. The analytics translator will play a key role in Global Analytics' communication strategy, leveraging SharePoint, Viva Engage, Teams channels, email, demos, and presentations. Our goal is to embed data-driven insights for better decision-making and cultivate a thriving analytics community. You will be the driver of this change, nurturing a data-driven culture across EY to support our NextWave strategy. You will manage relationships and collaborate with selected strategic stakeholders across Reporting & Analytics Customer Relationship Leads, Business Development, Account Activation, Fields of Play, Solutions Teams, Knowledge, Strategy, and BMC. We seek a natural communicator with presentation and storytelling skills who can explain complex data insights. You will be proactive, a creative problem-solver, with a strong understanding of EY's business structure, leadership, and project management skills. Extensive financial analysis experience, a curiosity for data innovation, and a desire to learn data science are a plus. While challenging, this role offers an exciting opportunity at the forefront of analytics in EY finance. Your key responsibilities People: Develop and strengthen strategic relationships with key internal business stakeholders by understanding their needs, challenges, and goals. Communicate insights to stakeholders in a clear, concise, and persuasive way and provide understandable findings that business partners can act upon. Proactively identify business problems and opportunities that can be solved with data analytics, creating a pipeline of new use cases. Disseminate the latest developments from the Global Analytics team to the entire CRL network, promote them for use with stakeholders, and maintain a quarterly call with these roles on the latest developments and any required training for them. Maintain Global Analytics community content and promotions by liaising with other comms teams to see where this content can be embedded and promoted. Organize a twice-yearly conference pulling in all the 'data & analytics' teams within EY to share the latest stand-out developments and plans. Drive innovation across the team and create an environment that supports the development of new ideas. Collaborate within the GA team and beyond to ensure as rich data as possible is used for insights, and to discover or co-create solutions. Represent Global Analytics frequently at R&A, Global Markets, or Global Finance meetings. Leverage the concept of "Power of 2" when meeting with stakeholders for greater effectiveness by bringing alongside technical experts. Identify new stakeholder groups who are yet to be aware of and take advantage of GA products. Stand in for Product Owners where necessary to provide demonstrations of our products and address FAQs. Process: Work with data scientists, data engineers, or product development colleagues to co-create and implement data-driven solutions to business problems. Conduct reactive, ad-hoc data-driven analyses, as needed, to answer business questions using a variety of data sources and analytical techniques to identify trends, patterns, and insights that can help businesses make better decisions. Provide critical business and finance/markets domain knowledge, analytical and data interrogation expertise to the development of projects. Maintain regular visibility of the requirements of key user groups and identify where Global Analytics solutions may be beneficial. Provide feedback enhancement requests to relevant Teams for logging and scheduling. Identify users' unmet needs, which may lead to new use cases being registered in the pipeline. Ensure high engagement coverage of the identified strategic stakeholder map. Oversee your allocated projects, from planning to build, initial delivery, and regular production stages. Technology: Well versed and up-to-date with the technology used in the Global Analytics team (SQL, PowerBI, Advanced Excel, presentation tools, Citizen data scientist – if not already, you will have an opportunity to work towards becoming a citizen data scientist to add depth to the role – has awareness of or practical experience of Python, R, auto-ML solutions such as Data Robot, Data Bricks, Azure ML) Keep up with the emerging trends in the technology that GA should have on their radar and explore Skills and attributes for success Business acumen - understanding of business principles and operations. Strong verbal and written communication skills - ability to communicate data insights to stakeholders clearly, concisely, and persuasively. A natural storyteller. Technical skills - ability to use relational databases and data analysis software such as SQL. Advanced Excel. Critical for effective and efficient ad-hoc analytics. Experience in using Python and R is useful but not required. Knowledge of Agile ways of working would be advantageous. Data analysis skills - experience with data mining, machine learning, and statistical analysis. High data literacy concerning EY metrics, concepts, and reporting systems. Data visualization/ collaboration skills – medium to proficient experience of PowerBI, PowerPoint for presentation of findings, along with the ability to use collaboration tools like Mural/Miro/ Teams Whiteboard and others. Knowledge of Design Thinking principles, ThoughtSpot self-service analytics tool advantageous. Problem-solving - ability to identify and solve data-related problems through identification of patterns, trends, ability to connect any relevant general market, legal, environmental events Creativity and curiosity - good imagination and ability to proactively innovate. Leadership skills – ability to command, take decisions, coach, speak with authority and confidence in the subject Global mindset - able to collaborate and connect with colleagues across the world in an emotionally intelligent and respectful manner. Intermittent travel to Bangalore, India, and European and US locations may be required. To qualify for the role, you must have Experience: 10 plus years’ experience in financial management/ analytics, business intelligence/reporting, planning, operations or similar capacity Technology skill: strong Excel, PowerPoint and fluent with visualization tools (PowerBI, Tableau, Spotfire, ThoughtSpot and others), SQL, data science experience would welcome (not essential but must be keen to start exploring) What we offer EY Global Delivery Services (GDS) is a dynamic and truly global delivery network. We work across ten locations – Argentina, China, Hungary, India, the Philippines, Poland, Sri Lanka, Mexico, Spain and the United Kingdom – and with teams from all EY service lines, geographies and sectors, playing a vital role in the delivery of the EY growth strategy. From accountants to coders to advisory consultants, we offer a wide variety of fulfilling career opportunities that span all business disciplines. In GDS, you will collaborate with EY teams on exciting projects and work with well-known brands from across the globe. We’ll introduce you to an ever-expanding ecosystem of people, learning, skills and insights that will stay with you throughout your career. Continuous learning: You’ll develop the mindset and skills to navigate whatever comes next. Success as defined by you: We’ll provide the tools and flexibility, so you can make a meaningful impact, your way. Transformative leadership: We’ll give you the insights, coaching and confidence to be the leader the world needs. Diverse and inclusive culture: You’ll be embraced for who you are and empowered to use your voice to help others find theirs. About EY EY | Building a better working world