Sr. Data Analyst, IT-Finance

Aspire Bakeries is a North American baking company with a leadership position in specialty frozen baked goods. Formed from leading bakery companies, its innovative food portfolio includes breads, artisan breads, buns, cookies, donuts, muffins and pastries from beloved brands like La Brea Bakery®, Otis Spunkmeyer®, and Oakrun Farm Bakery®. With 13 bakeries in North America, we are committed to driving innovation, predicting upcoming consumer trends and flavors, and exceeding our customers’ expectations. Aspire Bakeries champions the values of Integrity, Ownership, Customer Focus, Creativity and Care to help us deliver on People Safety, Food Safety, Quality and Collaboration.

As a Sr. Data Analyst for Finance, you will play a pivotal role in driving data-driven decision-making and product excellence for data solutions at Aspire Bakeries. You’ll leverage your financial, data analytics, and product development expertise in the Finance area by leveraging technology to enable and improve outcomes. Your leadership, cross-functional collaboration, and hands-on analysis will be key to translating business needs, managing data solutions, and driving product development for delivering data services across the organization. Join us and contribute to building and maintaining a cutting-edge data ecosystem at Aspire Bakeries.

Responsibilities:

• Identify business needs, analyze related processes, gather requirements, and define objectives for potential solutions.
• Create technical specifications capturing the data, components, processes, inputs, outputs, and relationships of systems.
• Lead cross-functional teams to identify data, refine processes, and derive insights.
• Collaborate with stakeholders, functional leads, and technical engineers to manage the data lifecycle.
• Develop and maintain a product roadmap prioritizing features aligned with goals, initiatives, and customer needs considering business impact, technology strategy, and community analysis.
• Manage the product development lifecycle from ideation to backlog thru delivery
• Build, Configure, Implement solutions for business processes and analytics incorporating internal, external, public, private data and information sources as appropriate.
• Execute data modeling, pattern recognition, trend analysis, and anomaly detection tasks.
• Evaluate systems and tools for data analysis including recommendations for improvements or new technologies.
• Help automate data collection and reporting processes to improve efficiency and accuracy.
• Additional duties as required, assigned by supervisor or management.

Qualifications:

• Bachelor’s Degree from an accredited college in related field or equivalent work experience in financial, quantitative, accounting, business or engineering discipline. In lieu of degree, 7+ years of experience or the equivalent combination of education and experience. (Masters degree a plus)
• 5+ years of experience in Data Analysis, Data Modeling, Business Intelligence/Decision Support/Data Engineering roles working with multiple disparate, complex datasets.
• 3+ years of proven system/application experience in building data solutions.
• 3+ years of experience with SAP BW and BI solutions with detailed understanding of SAP BI technology and its application is preferred.
• 1+ years of experience with Cloud data platforms and services building Data Marts/Warehouses/Lakes, Pipelines, and Datasets utilizing Microsoft Azure, AWS, Datasphere is preferred.
• Hands-on proven experience working with Finance organization on Financial Reporting, Planning & Analysis tools such as xP&A solutions from Jedox, SAP, Onestream or Board.
• Experience in business analytics, e.g., enterprise reporting, executive dashboards, scorecards, alerts, subscription push reporting, etc.
• Strong experience with BI analytical tools (eg. PowerBI, BusinessObjects, Tableau, Domo, Alteryx or similar) working with structured data from ERP systems and other sources.
• Hands-on experience as a Data Analyst or Business Analyst or Product Owner.
• Experience with ERP systems and familiarity with Finance/Accounting and Manufacturing industry processes.
• Experience working with Python, R, particularly for ETL/ELT or Data Science related tasks is preferred.
• Some background in data structures, algorithms, and debugging is preferred.
• Proficiency in data analysis tools (e.g., Excel, SQL, Python, R).

Salary Range: $125,000 – $135,000

Travel: up to 10% based on project

Aspire Bakeries LLC values the contribution each Team Member brings to our organization. The final determination of a successful candidate’s starting pay will vary based on a number of factors, including, but not limited to location, shift, education, skill, and experience within the job or the industry. The pay scale listed for this position is generally for candidates that meet the specified qualifications and requirements listed In this specific job description. Additional pay may be determined for those candidates that exceed these specified qualifications and requirements. We provide a competitive compensation package that recognizes your experience, credentials, and education alongside a robust benefits program to meet your needs. For union-represented postings, wage rates and ranges are governed by applicable collective bargaining agreements.

Aspire Bakeries is proud to be an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability or veteran status.