Financial Data Analyst (Advanced Powerbi)

Job description

Gartner is seeking a dynamic Financial Analyst to join our Finance FP&A team, supporting the Conferences Business Unit. This pivotal role partners with executive leadership, senior finance stakeholders, and business unit leaders to deliver actionable insights, robust financial planning, and advanced data analytics. The ideal candidate is a strategic thinker with a passion for leveraging data to drive business performance and innovation. What you will do: • Collaborate with Finance and Conferences leadership to develop and optimize financial analytics for sales teams, supporting profitable growth and revenue enhancement. • Analyse complex business challenges and provide actionable recommendations to business leaders, leveraging operational analytics to drive performance improvements and support strategic decision-making. • Drive automation of reporting processes using advanced tools such as Power BI, SQL, and Python to deliver timely, accurate KPI dashboards. • Synthesize and interpret complex datasets to generate meaningful business insights, supporting strategic and operational decision-making • Identify opportunities to streamline data/internal financial processes, automate data extraction and develop new metrics. • Provide ad hoc modelling and analytical insights to the business and help in strategic and operational initiatives. • Translate executive business objectives into actionable analytics projects, while proactively proposing innovative, data-driven solutions. • Engage in cross-team collaboration and address ad hoc/ analytical requests from multiple business units, and with individuals with varying levels of analytical experience. • Ensure rigorous, timely, and accurate financial reporting and analytics for executive leadership and their teams. • Independently evaluate and enhance existing financial models and frameworks, recommending improvements to drive efficiency and accuracy. What you will need: • 3+ in core analytics, with bachelor’s in computer science, Engineering, Analytics or Statistics, Finance - Master’s degree preferred. • Advanced knowledge of Power BI – Dax, power query, advanced data modelling, query folding, Databricks etc. • Strong command of SQL for data extraction, transformation, and analysis; Python experience is highly desirable. • Demonstrated ability to analyze and synthesize large financial and operational datasets, identifying key linkages and business drivers. • Expertise in Microsoft Office suite – Excel, Power Point, Think Cell, Outlook, etc. • Proven business partnering skills, with experience collaborating across finance and data domains to deliver actionable recommendations • Exceptional critical thinking and problem-solving skills, delivering high-quality solutions under tight deadlines. • Demonstrate high ownership, accountability and ability to influence senior stakeholders • Effective communication, presentation and influencing skills in a matrixed organization with the ability to present complex analyses to executive audiences. • Demonstrates curiosity and openness to work across multiple Finance data domains and business processes. • Strong organizational skills, adept at managing multiple projects and integrating data from diverse sources. Who you are: • Motivated, high-potential performer, with demonstrated ability to influence and lead. • Strong communicator with excellent interpersonal skills. • Able to solve complex problems and successfully manage ambiguity and unexpected change. • Teachable and embracing of best practices and feedback as a means of continuous improvement. • Consistently high achiever marked by perseverance, humility, and a positive outlook in the face of ambiguity. What makes Gartner a GREAT fit for you? When you join Gartner, you’ll be part of a fast-growing team that helps the world become smarter and more connected. We’re the leader in our industry, achieving double-digit growth by helping clients make the right decisions with business and technology insights they can’t find anywhere else. Our associates enjoy a collaborative work environment, exceptional training and career development — as well as unlimited growth potential. If you like working with a generous, supportive, high-performing team, Gartner is where you want to be. What we offer: In addition to an outstanding work environment with rapid advancement potential, Gartner associates enjoy exceptional compensation and benefits, including: • Great work culture: An upbeat, positive culture. Integrity, objectivity, collaboration, results, and a no-limits mindset are central to our values. • We work with you to help you meet your goals and advance within the company. • Exposure to industry-leading training and development • Performance-based recognition and rewards • Flexible work environment Who are we? At Gartner, Inc. (NYSE:IT), we guide the leaders who shape the world. Our mission relies on expert analysis and bold ideas to deliver actionable, objective business and technology insights, helping enterprise leaders and their teams succeed with their mission-critical priorities. Since our founding in 1979, we’ve grown to 20,000 associates globally who support over 13,000 client enterprises in ~90 countries and territories. We do important, interesting and substantive work that matters. That’s why we hire associates with the intellectual curiosity, energy and drive to want to make a difference. The bar is unapologetically high. So is the impact you can have here. What makes Gartner a great place to work? Our vast, virtually untapped market potential offers limitless opportunities – opportunities that may not even exist right now – for you to grow professionally and flourish personally. How far you go is driven by your passion and performance. We hire remarkable people who collaborate and win as a team. Together, our singular, unifying goal is to deliver results for our clients. Our teams are inclusive and compose