Data Analytics Senior Associate - Financial Due Diligence

As a Data Analytics Senior Associate, you’ll focus on middle-market transactions, serving dynamic organizations with experienced professionals who bring a full range of advisory services to validate, optimize and create value for the Transaction Advisory Practice – all with the resources, environment, and support to help you excel. Our Financial Due Diligence solution is comprised of several integrated capabilities that support our clients' needs throughout the transaction lifecycle.

From day one, you’ll be empowered to help clients make the moves that will help them achieve their vision and help you achieve more, confidently. 

 

Your day-to-day may include:

• Extensive exposure to granular accounting data, including reconciliations between financials and detailed data
• Consolidate and synthesize data into actionable visualizations, focused on insights and action items
• Provide observations into behavior, trends, financials and business operations through data analysis and the development of business intelligence visuals
• Develop dashboards and clearly articulate the prominent themes and insights of the engagement 
• Utilize advanced business intelligence tools including complex calculations, table calculations, mapping, data blending and optimization of data extracts
• Manage client expectations concerning project deliverables and deadlines and lead change efforts effectively
• Work closely with Grant Thornton teams to promptly identify and resolve client problems or issues, leveraging other workstream findings to shape your analysis
• Develop and maintain strong internal and client relationships to provide maximum value to our clients through the delivery of our full solution
• Team with partners and senior managers on proposals and business development calls
• Meet or exceed targeted billing hours (utilization)
• Other duties as assigned

You have the following technical skills, qualifications, and abilities:

• Bachelor's degree in Accounting required
• Minimum 2 years of related work experience in a similar function servicing cross-industry clients at a national level required
• CPA certification and/or relevant professional certification preferred 
• Experience in Accounting is required
• Professional working knowledge of Tableau or Power BI (visualization), SQL or Alteryx (data cleansing), and Microsoft Excel required
• Ability to manage multiple priorities and simultaneous projects in a rapidly growing practice
• Strong leadership, business development, recruitment, training, and mentoring skills
• Excellent written, presentation, leadership, and interpersonal communication skills
• Can travel as needed, but typically less than 10%

 

The base salary range for this position in New York only is between $112,300 and $168,500.

 

 

 

At Grant Thornton, we believe in making business more personal and building trust into every result – for our clients and you. Here, we go beyond your expectations of a career in professional services by offering a career path with more: more opportunity, more flexibility, and more support. It’s what makes us different, and we think being different makes us better.