Business Insights Associate
Buckingham Search
- Chicago, IL
Buckingham Search is excited to partner with a Chicago-based Trading firm, who is searching for an Associate of Business Insights to add to their team!
This is a great opportunity being offered for someone with a year or two of public accounting experience to transition into a totally new role focused on creating actionable insights for the company. This is a non-audit, non-accounting role, where you can leverage your experience within audit or accounting into a totally new area without having to take a pay cut or start back at square one.
Responsibilities:
- Build and maintain currency of knowledge with respect to vendor relationships to drive understanding of risks and enhancements
- Proactively drive the issue resolution process with respect to misbilling against contracts and internal data
- Assist in managing datasets to support financial and data analysis
- Analyze data to drive monthly reporting to deliver actionable insights to the team on ongoing activity and identify potential areas for improvement
- Manage day-to-day activities such as periodic meetings, team communications, and provide appropriate reminders and follow-ups
- Identify opportunities and areas for process improvements and propose adjustments to enhance operational effectiveness
- Assist in drafting workflows and building consensus across stakeholders
Requirements:
- Bachelor's Degree in Accounting, Finance, Economics or other Business Related Field required
- At least one year or more of professional work experience, public accounting experience is highly preferred
- Excellent organizational skills, time management skills, and strong attention to detail
- Proven data management capability
- Strong written, oral and visual presentation skills
- Experience with excel, SQL, and python desired, but not required
Posted On: Friday, January 28, 2022