Developer, Business Intelligence - Internal Audit & Controls

WM, a Fortune 250 company, is the leading provider of comprehensive waste and environmental services in North America. We are strongly committed to a foundation of operating excellence, professionalism and financial strength. WM serves nearly 25 million customers in residential, commercial, industrial and municipal markets throughout North America through a network of collection operations, transfer stations, landfills, recycling facilities and waste-based energy production projects.

I. Job Summary
This individual  will play a pivotal role in transforming data into insights that guide operational and financial audits and perform risk assessments. This position requires a combination of strong technical skills, critical thinking, and the ability to bridge the gap between business needs and data analytics. This would be accomplished by demonstrating a strong understanding of business processes and building meaningful sustainable relationships with key internal and external stakeholders. You will take an active role in contributing to the department’s strategic initiatives focusing on continuous improvement, cost savings, and increased automation. Working closely with the Manager of Internal Audit, this role will provide mentorship to the analytics team, and support decision-making with data-driven insights. This role provides a great platform to learn about the Company’s business, policies & procedures creating opportunities to grow and develop inside and outside the Internal Audit & Controls (IAC) department.

II. Duties and Responsibilities
To perform this job successfully, an individual must be able to perform each duty satisfactorily. Other ancillary duties may be assigned.  

• Ensures all projects and data developed is value adding and provides actionable insights.
• Design and implement comprehensive dashboards and reports using tools such as Power BI and custom scripts to support operational and financial audits, risk assessments, and continuous monitoring activities.
• Analyzes requests to ensure that they are value adding and prioritized appropriately
• Acts as resource for colleagues with less experience.
• Demonstrates a commitment to the quality of data sets and reporting created by the team, ensuring they are repeatable and sustainable.
• Act as a bridge between the technical data team and the business, ensuring that data insights are presented in a way that is understandable and actionable for non-technical stakeholders.
• Utilize programming languages such as Python and R to perform complex data extraction, cleaning, and analysis.
• Ensures all requests are logged for data, reporting, and analysis.
• Support IAC team with ad-hoc data requests, such as sales commission trends, revenue comparisons, and other operational metrics.
• Present to stakeholders, working with this team as a partner and providing actionable insights and recommendations.
• Interfaces with data architecture team and troubleshoots complex data issues.
• Works with and combines large, disparate data sets to uncover actionable insights.

III. Supervisory Responsibilities
This job has no supervisory duties.

IV. Qualifications
The requirements listed below are representative of the qualifications necessary to perform the job.  

A. Education and Experience

• Education: Bachelor’s Degree (accredited) in Information Sciences, Economics, Finance, Mathematics, Statistics, or similar area of study, or in lieu of degree, High School Diploma or GED (accredited) and four (4) years of relevant experience. 
• Experience: Five (5) years of related experience (in addition to education requirement).

C. Other Knowledge, Skills or Abilities Required

Technically advanced or in-depth knowledge or skills in one or more of the following required:

• Expert relational database and data warehouse experience,  SQL server, Oracle and Snowflake.
• Advanced Power BI skill set with advanced DAX, Power Query and sql queries.
• Proven Implementation of Value Adding Data Visualization Design and Best Practices.
• Experience with ETL Data Preparation – Extract, Transform, and Load (ETL) Data with a firm understanding of how to shape datasets using a mixed environment.
• Ability to quickly analyze, synthesize, and apply information to drive solution-based outcomes. Desires the need to know the “why” through probing questions, moving beyond surface level understanding to get to the foundational ideas concerning a particular issue.
• Build relationships with stakeholders across the organization to gain an understanding of their key processes/systems and the underlying internal control environment. Has ability to recognize and respond to diverse thinking styles, learning styles and cultural qualities.
• Apply understanding of risk recognition in financial and operational processes with solid core analytical and problem-solving skills.

V. Work Environment and Essential Functions
Listed below are key points regarding environmental demands and work environment of the job. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions of the job. [Note: The following is defaulted for office setting position.]

• Required to use motor coordination with finger dexterity (such as keyboarding, machine operation, etc.) most of the work day;
• Required to exert physical effort in handling objects less than 30 pounds rarely;
• Required to be exposed to physical occupational risks (such as cuts, burns, exposure to toxic chemicals, etc.) rarely;
• Required to be exposed to physical environment which involves dirt, odors, noise, weather extremes or similar elements rarely;
• Normal setting for this job is: office setting.

Benefits
At WM, each eligible employee receives a competitive total compensation package including Medical, Dental, Vision, Life Insurance and Short Term Disability. As well as a Stock Purchase Plan, Company match on 401K, and more! Our employees also receive Paid Vacation, Holidays, and Personal Days. Please note that benefits may vary by site.

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ABOUT WM WM (WM.com) is North America’s largest comprehensive waste management environmental solutions provider. Previously known as Waste Management and based in Houston, Texas, WM is driven by commitments to put people first and achieve success with integrity. The company, through its subsidiaries, provides collection, recycling and disposal services to millions of residential, commercial, industrial and municipal customers throughout the U.S. and Canada. With innovative infrastructure and capabilities in recycling, organics and renewable energy, WM provides environmental solutions to and collaborates with its customers in helping them achieve their sustainability goals. WM has the largest disposal network and collection fleet in North America, is the largest recycler of post-consumer materials and is the leader in beneficial reuse of landfill gas, with a growing network of renewable natural gas plants and the most gas-to-electricity plants in North America. WM’s fleet includes nearly 11,000 natural gas trucks – the largest heavy-duty natural gas truck fleet of its kind in North America – where more than half are fueled by renewable natural gas. To learn more about WM and the company’s sustainability progress and solutions, visit Sustainability.WM.com.

Equal Employment Opportunity

For United States: WM is an equal opportunity employer.  All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, creed, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, age, disability, status as a protected veteran or any other characteristic protected under applicable federal, state, or local law.

For Canada: WM is committed to the principle of equal employment for all applicants and employees, without discrimination on the basis of all grounds protected by applicable human rights legislation. Accommodations are available on request for candidates taking part in all aspects of the selection process. Please notify us if you require accommodation.