Data Analytics Business Analyst

Company: SPX Flow
Location: Charlotte
Posted on: January 17, 2020

Job Description:

Based in Charlotte, North Carolina, SPX FLOW, Inc. (NYSE: FLOW) innovates with customers to help feed and enhance the world by designing, delivering and servicing high value solutions at the heart of growing and sustaining our diverse communities. The company's product offering is concentrated in rotating, actuating and hydraulic technologies, as well as automated process systems, into food and beverage, industrial and power and energy markets. SPX FLOW has approximately $2 billion in annual revenues with operations in more than 30 countries and sales in more than 150 countries.

OPPORTUNITY SNAPSHOT

If you combine a sharp analytical mindset with solid people skills and the ability to think on your feet, this position offers you some compelling opportunities. You will:

* Be a ground-floor member of our new Global Data Analytics and Governance Team as we drive a data revolution across the organization.

* Enjoy high visibility as you interact with top level executives on a regular basis, and gain exposure to people in diverse countries and cultures.

* Leverage the entrepreneurial energy as a key driver of this initiative; your great ideas will be welcome.

* Grow your skills and experience as you learn new tools and processes, and showcase your potential to take on additional responsibilities, become a mentor, and/or pursue advancement as the team grows.

* Enjoy work/life balance, including a flexible schedule and a half-day on Fridays, as well as a collaborative, fast-paced culture.

PRINCIPAL DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES

The Global Data Analytics and Data Governance Team is responsible for developing data analytics as a core competency and competitive advantage at SPX FLOW, driving business value and streamlined decision making for the enterprise through new innovative solutions and standardized business-critical reporting. As Data Analytics / Business Analyst, you will play a key role in data quality, analytics reporting, and data analytics projects.

You'll work with contacts in a variety of areas, including product management, commercial and sales teams, manufacturing operations, HR, finance and others. In addition, our data warehouse is growing rapidly, and you will help clean up data, create new dashboards and enhance existing ones, and more. If you're coming from the financial, healthcare or insurance industry, we think you will enjoy working with tangible products.

We're looking for a professional who can think outside the box, and is motivated to dig into the data and do research. You also should be able to present the data in a way that tells the story and suggests action.

More specifically, you will:

* Collaborate with internal business leaders to define problems and provide data-driven solutions.

* Contribute to teamwide strategic data analytics and governance projects.

* Automate daily tasks through scripts and other coding techniques.

* Build ETL packages to migrate data sources to database tables.

* Create complex statistical models in R and Python to help solve business problems.

* Research and understand problems by interviewing internal business users and creating user persona groups.

* Design, enhance, and maintain new and existing dashboards and reports in Power BI.

* Assist the data governance team with reporting issues raised by data stewards and other end users.

* Define and implement data quality and governance checks for new reporting and data sources.

KNOWLEDGE, SKILLS & ABILITIES

* Strong analytical skills with the ability to collect, organize, analyze, and disseminate significant amounts of information with attention to detail and accuracy.

* Advanced-level technical skills in:

* SQL, with the ability to build complex queries, views, tables, stored procedures.

* Excel, with the ability to used advanced functions and Visual Basic scripts in Excel.

* VB Script/PowerShell, with the ability to create scripts to automate tasks (ex: open Excel, run a macro, save file, and close Excel).

* Intermediate-level technical skills in:

* ETL (SSIS/SAP BODS), with the ability to extract, transform, and load data to SQL tables.

* Programming (R/Python/SAS/MATLAB), with the ability to write scripts to manipulate, cleanse, and format data, call APIs, build statistical/data science models, etc.

* General understanding of statistical modeling and data science (regression, clustering, decision tree).

* Visualization/automated reporting skills (Power BI, Tableau, MicroStrategy, SSRS).

* The ability to articulate clearly, concisely, and professionally in both written and verbal communications..

* Creativity and curiosity.

* The ability to multitask and learn independently in a fast-paced environment.

* A drive for results.

* The ability to achieve goals independently and contribute as a team player.

* Strong problem-solving skills.

* Adaptability and flexibility.

EDUCATION AND EXPERIENCE

* A bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Statistics, Engineering, Information Systems, or another related field: an advanced degree is a plus.

* 1 to 3 years of experience in a full-time data analytics/data science team role (0 years acceptable with relevant internship experience).

PHYSICAL DEMANDS

The physical demands described here are representative of those an employee encounters while performing the essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.

WORKING CONDITIONS

The work environment characteristics described here are representative of those an employee encounters while performing the essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.

DISCLAIMER

The above statements are intended to describe the general nature and level of work being performed by people assigned to this classification. They are not intended to be construed as an exhaustive list of all responsibilities, duties and skills required of personnel so classified. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable qualified individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.

SPX FLOW VALUES

SPX Flow employees are expected to behave in accordance with our company values:

* Think all customer, all the time.

* Embrace teamwork with no borders.

* Be obsessed with being the best.

* Own your actions.

* Ask the hard question.

* Do the right thing, always!

* Appreciate the moment.

QUALITY

Quality encompasses all aspects of SPX's business, and every employee shares the responsibility to prevent the occurrence of any nonconformity relating to product, process and the quality system. All employees have an obligation to identify and record any such nonconformity, and through designed channels, initiate and recommend solutions.

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SPX Flow is an equal opportunity employer and makes employment decisions without regard to race, color, religion, national origin, gender, age, disability, protected veteran status, or any other reason prohibited by law.

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