Senior Business Intelligence Analyst - Remote
Join the People Helping PeopleVelera is the nation’s premier payments credit union service organization (CUSO) and an integrated fintech solutions provider. The company serves more than 4,000 financial institutions throughout North America, operating with velocity to help our clients keep pace with the rapid momentum of change and fuel growth in the new era of financial services. Our purpose: We accelerate partners’ success through innovative financial technology solutions and inspired service.The Opportunity:The Senior Business Intelligence Analyst partners with cross-functional teams to gather business requirements, support data product development, and deliver actionable insights. This role bridges project-based analysis and strategic insight generation, ensuring data quality, governance, and usability—particularly for Debit and Credit data.Day In The Life:Partner with stakeholders to gather and translate business needs into technical requirements.Analyze and prepare requirements documentation including but not limited to: Defining business functional requirements, business rules, data definitions, data transformations, end user reporting, and semantic layers.Provide input into the design, development and maintenance of BI solutions, semantic layers, and data products.Analyze large datasets to uncover trends, profile and validate data, and generate insights for internal and external stakeholders.Collaborate with Data Science to develop models and advanced analytics.Promote data governance, quality standards, and consistent data definitions.Serve as a subject matter expert and data authority for multiple data domains and strategic initiatives.Deliver consultative insights to stakeholders to support data-driven decisions.Maintain data definitions, metadata, and lineage documentation.Enforce data governance standards and ensure data accuracy and consistency.Lead efforts in identifying and resolving data quality issues.Serve as the point person for any data issues that arise, determine the root cause of the issue and determine the path to resolutionLead stakeholder meetings and communicate findings to technical and non-technical audiences.Build and maintain strong relationships across business units and external partners.Lead training sessions at user forums, governed data sources, and tools, and contribute to user education materials.Manage multiple priorities and deal effectively with senior management, staff members, clients, and vendors including doing in-person or virtual presentationsAct as a consultant on data best practices, architecture, and process improvement.Deliver consultative insights to stakeholders to support data-driven decisions.Provide coaching/mentoring and reviewing the work of team members ensuring processes are followed appropriatelyManage the processes for the loading of dataDrive process improvement for all data quality core processes to execute with simplicity, speed, quality and efficiencyStrong leadership and proble...