Strategic Sourcing Data Analyst (HYBRID - Atlanta or Tysons)

About TEGNA

TEGNA Inc. (NYSE: TGNA) serves local communities across the U.S. through trustworthy journalism, engaging content, and tools that help people navigate their daily lives. Through customized marketing solutions, we help businesses grow and thrive. With 64 television stations in 51 U.S. markets, TEGNA reaches approximately 100 million people every month across the web, mobile apps, streaming, and linear television. For more information, visit TEGNA.com.

TEGNA seeks a Data Analyst to join our Strategic Sourcing team. This is a new position that will be expected to maintain our spend database and improve our data processes. We currently maintain an effective view of our spending with thousands of suppliers, so attention to detail and a strong sense of curiosity, along with powerful analytical skills will be essential components of success.

Spend data is critical to the effective design and execution of our various sourcing projects. Spend data management is the process of aggregating, classifying, and leveraging spend data for the purpose of reducing costs, improving operational performance, and ensuring compliance.

Spend data management includes:

1. Extract - Develop & support automated extraction of all spend data from internal and external business systems.
2. Validate - ensure spending data files are accurate and complete.
3. Cleanse and classify - enable efficient, accurate, and preferably automated rationalization and classification of data elements and attributes. Eliminate discrepancies between incongruent naming conventions and map spend data to industry- standard classification systems (e.g., UNSPSC, Duns etc..) or TEGNA enterprise specific taxonomies.

Responsibilities include but are not limited to:

• Perform ad hoc analysis of various commodity categories
• Perform ad-hoc analysis of various deal related economics to support decision making and negotiation strategies
• Create data-based views of market facing benchmarking to evaluate the best options for TEGNA
• Work effectively with cross-functional teams across the TEGNA locations
• Partner with IT & shared center colleagues to create the process and continuously improve the data
• Audit existing spend data
• Access all spend-data sources within and outside the enterprise
• Adopt a common classification schema enterprise wide
• Augment category expertise to ensure data and classification accuracy and validation
• Classify spending at a detailed level
• Enhance core spend data with vital business intelligence
• Increase frequency and coverage of spending analyses
• Utilize advanced reporting and decision support tools, such as AI, ML, Dashboarding etc...
• Continuously expand uses and scope of spend data management program

Required Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Accounting, Finance, or related discipline
• 3-5 years in a financial analysis function
• Advanced skills required in Excel and PowerPoint
• Ability to manage and synthesize large amounts of data from different sources
• Ability to collate and create actionable reports from vast amounts of data
• Self-starter, ability to work independently
• Financial automation tools, methods and procedures

Preferred Qualifications

• Master's degree in Accounting, Finance, or related discipline
• 5-10 Years of experience
• Data Manipulation, Data Entry and Collection Tools
• Advanced Access user
• Ability to understand accounting principles and accounts payable practices
• Familiarity in Supplier Master Data Management & Set-up #LI-MS1

Benefits: 

TEGNA offers comprehensive benefits designed to safeguard the physical, mental and financial health of our employees and their families. TEGNA offers two medical plan options for full and part-time employees through Blue Cross Blue Shield of Texas, as well as access to dental and eye care coverage; fertility, surrogacy and adoption assistance; disability and life insurance.

Our 401(k) program offers full, part-time and temporary employees the opportunity to contribute 1% - 80% of their pay on a pre-tax basis to TEGNA’s 401(k). Contributions made up to the first 4% of pay are eligible for a 100% match from the company and are 100% vested from day one.

Regardless of participation in TEGNA medical plans, ALL employees and their eligible family members receive nine free virtual doctor’s appointments with a physician through Teladoc, and 12 free annual therapy sessions with a licensed clinician through Spring Health.

TEGNA offers a generous Paid Time Off (PTO) benefit as well as nine paid holidays per year. 

* Some jobs are covered by a collective bargaining agreement and thus some or all of the benefits described herein may not apply. For example, some newsroom bargaining unit employees receive health and retirement benefits under plans administered by the union.

EEO statement:

TEGNA Inc. is a proud equal opportunity employer. We are proud to be an equal opportunity employer, hiring and developing individuals from diverse backgrounds and experiences to add to our collaborative culture. We value and consider applications from all qualified candidates without regard to actual or perceived race, color, religion, national origin, sex, gender, age, marital status, personal appearance, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, family responsibilities, disability, medical condition, enrollment in college or vocational school, political affiliation, military or veteran status, citizenship status, genetic information, or any other basis protected by federal, state or local law. TEGNA will reasonably accommodate qualified individuals with disabilities in accordance with applicable law. If you are in need of an accommodation in order to submit your application, please email askhr@tegna.com 

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