Nike Senior Analyst Finance Data & Analytics 

United States, Oregon, Beaverton 

593962208

We’re looking for five Senior Data Analysts to be a part of the Global Finance Business Intelligence (FBI) Data Enablement team within the Finance Operations & Transformation org. In this role, you’ll assist the business Product Owner with requirements gathering, documentation, and story creation, while taking ownership of data profiling and analysis of raw and curated data.

The ideal candidate can understand business needs and clearly translate those needs into actionable technical requirements. Their technical background will be solid, having expertise in data cleansing, data analysis, data visualization, and data storytelling. They are curious, lifelong learners, who enthusiastically seek to understand the why behind technical processes and data.

WHAT YOU WILL WORK ON

If this is you, you’ll work to design, develop, and implement new decision support solutions that help the business leverage data to make informed decisions. You will use your expertise with both business and technology to help the product owner be successful and the data engineers be efficient. You will gather requirements and design data flows to intake financial transactions, develop and test complex business rules, and identify and model data against product and customer attribution to support financial optimization and deep analytics. Technically, this means you’ll be responsible for building the financial analytic capabilities that transform Nike to meet the challenges of a mixed retail and wholesale future.

WHO YOU WILL WORK WITH

You will be a part of a team of data analysts that sit across several finance analytics squads, each specializing in a particular finance function. You will be helping the business Product Owner create and drive an agile product backlog within the scrum team as together you work to deliver transformational reporting and analytics. You will also work with the wider product team to drive roadmaps that provide a larger solution viewpoint and align to stakeholder expectations. Stakeholders encompass the financial leadership from different functional domains within headquarters and geographies responsible for measuring financial performance and developing product and financial plans.

WHAT YOU BRING

• Bachelor's degree in Business, Finance, Economics, Marketing, IT or a related field or equivalent combination of education and experience.
• Minimum 3-5 years of experience with an emphasis on business reporting and analytics required
• Experience with Financial data and systems
• Strong ability to lead and/or work on cross-functional teams and provide project management support
• Ability to work independently and manage multiple projects with multiple business stakeholders on firm deadlines
• Ability to influence and communicate effectively, both verbally and written, with team members and business stakeholders
• Experience with defining new measures, and the translation of business goals into quantitative metrics and reporting
• Strong verbal and written communication skills, with the ability to present information to diverse audiences. Proficiency in tools like PowerPoint, Keynote, or a similar presentation format is required.
• Advanced SQL skills are mandatory. Experience querying big data environments (e.g. Snowflake, Databricks) is preferred.
• Proven ability to sift through data, identify critical information, analyze data, formulate hypotheses, and provide recommendations to a broad range of stakeholders
• Experience with Cloud Data Stacks (AWS, Snowflake, Databricks, etc)
• Experience with Python, Spark, and/or Airflow is preferred
• Strong understanding of data structures and algorithms
• Strong understanding of solution and technical design
• Strong problem solving and analytical mindset