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Company: Charter Schools USA
Location: Baton Rouge, LA
Career Level: Associate
Industries: Government, Nonprofit, Education

Description

Who We Are

Charter Schools USA (CSUSA) is one of the largest and highest ­performing education management companies in the United States, proudly serving over 82,000 students in over 150 schools in four states. Founded by Jonathan Hage in 1997, CSUSA's mission is a Relentless Commitment to Student Greatness in School and in Life™. CSUSA provides an academically rigorous education to students equipping them with real world readiness, prepared for college or career after graduation. With an unwavering dedication to the success of students from every background, CSUSA is closing the gaps in achievement and opportunity, keeping our promise of Strong Minds, Good Hearts™.

Job Purpose

To join a team of people with the mission: Relentless Commitment to Student Greatness in School and in Life ™. If you love inspiring and motivating young learners and want to put students first in education, CSUSA is the right place for you. We deliver on our promise of Strong Minds, Good Hearts™ through an education model that gives every student the opportunity for success. As a Regional Business Intelligence Analyst, you will Closely collaborate with internal and external stakeholders to understand reporting needs and requirements for Finance to comply with regional/state statutes. Apply advanced analytics techniques and statistical modeling to improve decision making and operational performance practices at the regional level. Create and simplify data flows, data models, reports, General Fund Budget (GFB), Annual Financial Reports (AFR), dashboards, and fiscal information reporting.

How You Will Impact Education

Instruction/Education Responsibilities

  • Possess unquestionable integrity. Engaging and empowering and reflective
  • Strong customer service orientation
  • Thrive in team oriented, collaborative environment but equally successfully in individual endeavors.
  • Strong working knowledge of finance and technology
  • Relies on extensive experiences and judgement to plan and accomplish goals
  • Courage to ask tough questions, but willingness to research options.
  • Committed to decision making based upon the merits of the idea, regardless of what party brought it forward.
  • Active listener, strong conflict management skills and will make/support the difficult decisions in the best interests of the organization, regardless of popularity.
  • Ability to organize and manage multiple priorities.
  • Ability to communicate ideas in both technical and user-friendly language.
  • Excellent analytical and creative problem-solving skills.
  • Establishes excellent interpersonal skills between all constituents: being courteous, professional, and helpful.
  • Demonstrates a high level of interpersonal skills to handle sensitive and confidential information and situations.
  • Logical and efficient, a quick study. Keen attention to detail
  • Excellent analytical and creative problem-solving skills.

Required Qualifications and Skills

  • Lead needs and requirement analysis to develop business intelligence capabilities that aggregate, analyze, and publish data to Local Education Agency (LEA) or school websites to comply with state regulations, primarily Act 370
  • Develop and update dashboards and other tracking tools regarding financial data.
  • Analyze large raw data sets to gain insight and create "AHA" moments.
  • Assist in analyzing best mechanisms to report data using current information systems for external stakeholder visibility.
  • Collaborate with stakeholders at various levels in departments ranging from Finance, Human Resources, Information Technology, Marketing and Enrollment, and Education/Schools
  • Identify roadblock and communicate them to leadership with a solution focus and mindset as it relates to developing or completing work.
  • Develop a mechanism to communicate updated school-based finance and accounting information to the school leadership directly from various computer systems.
  • Gain knowledge matter expert regarding state/regional governmental finance reporting (LAUGH Guide) and communicate knowledge to internal stakeholders.
  • Comply with the formatting designated by the state reporting agencies and legislature.
  • Troubleshoot program logic in a well-organized and systematic manner.
  • Proactively analyze data to identify opportunities for improvement/best practices.

Job Requirements

  • Bachelor's degree in finance, computer science, statistics or other related quantitative methods from an accredited college or university preferred.
  • Strong ability to understand and analyze user requirements as it relates to organizational goals and objectives.
  • Advance knowledge of Microsoft Excel is essential (lookups, pivot tables, nested logic functions, interfacing with OLAP cubes, etc.)
  • Proficiency in business analytics, with demonstrated ability to draw conclusions from the data and provide insight into why the business is evolving.
  • Experience with data visualization and BI tools (Tableau and Power Bi preferred)
  • Strong work ethic and ability to work autonomously in a high production environment.
  • Excellent written, oral communication and presentation skills.
  • Excellent listening
  • May perform other duties assigned.

Work Environment

While performing the responsibilities of this position, the work environment characteristics listed below are representative of the environment the employee will encounter:

  • Usual office working conditions.

Physical Demands

The physical demands described here are representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.

  • No physical exertion required.
  • Travel within or outside of state.
  • Light work: Exerting up to 20 pounds of force occasionally, and/or up to 10 pounds of force as frequently as needed to move objects.

FLSA Overtime Category

Job is exempt from the overtime provisions of the Fair Labor Standards Act.


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