Data Analyst (Data Governance)

Description

Freedom Mortgage’s Data Governance team is seeking a Data Analyst to work with our business, operations, governance, and technology teams to analyze data and drive insights including data quality, missing or incomplete elements, and ensure appropriate usage within the enterprise. The candidate will work within the Data Governance team and will help in documenting business and data quality rules and will ensure Data Quality across Critical Data Elements.

Responsibilities (What you’ll do):

• Perform data analysis on large, complex data sets to identify trends, patterns, and correlations
• Identify new and existing sources of data and methods to improve collection and quality for reporting environments.
• Partner with business stakeholders to help remediate data quality issues using data profiling and identifying patterns within the large-scale data platform across the enterprise.
• Collaborate with team members to collect and analyze data
• Preparing reports for executive leadership that  effectively communicate trends, patterns, and predictions using relevant data .
• Creating appropriate documentation that allows stakeholders to understand the  steps of the data analysis process  and duplicate or replicate the analysis if necessary
• Create presentations and reports based on recommendations and findings

Key Competencies:

• Ability to explain the what, how, and why of data analysis to non-technical audiences
• Hands-on understanding of data management, data quality, metadata, data lineage, etc.
• Ability to break down complex business problems and recommend practical solutions
• Ability to extract and organize large datasets from a variety of sources using different approaches and tools
• Strong critical thinking and problem-solving skills; proven ability to develop and initiate creative innovations and solutions
• Detail-oriented with the ability to manage multiple projects simultaneously
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills including technical writing

Requirements / Qualifications:

• Bachelor’s Degree in Business Administration, Computer Science, Information Technology, or appropriate combination of education and experience
• 5+ years of experience in a data analyst or business analyst role
• 5+ years of data analysis experience using SQL, Python, R, etc.
• 2+ years of experience working with databases (Oracle, SQL Server)
• Strong business acumen and analytical skill
• Strong written and verbal communications skills required
• Creative problem solver with a mindset around using and digging into data
• Experience with Tableau, Power BI or any other BI platform is a plus
• Experience and understanding of the mortgage industry a plus