Data Analytics and BI Reporting Lead

About Chartered Accountants Ireland   

The world of professional accountancy is changing at an unprecedented pace, adapting to its crucial role in climate reporting, AI and emerging technologies, increasingly sophisticated regulation, and evolving ways of working. This pace of change ensures that the non-stop demand for professional accountants and their services will continue to grow and expand to 2030 and beyond.

Chartered Accountants Ireland, the longest established and fastest growing professional accountancy body on the island of Ireland, is changing rapidly too, drawing on best-in-class organisational design and state-of-art digital solutions to provide forward-looking education, support, and regulation to members, firms, and students in the years ahead. We are embarking on a business transformation programme, the most exciting and ambitious in our 135-year history.

Institute Values

The Institute seeks to ensure an environment based on its values of Innovation with Ambition, Collaboration for Impact, Speed and Simplicity, Trust, Inclusion, and For Tomorrow, For Good. Candidates should be able to demonstrate how these may apply to them in the role for which they are applying and how their previous experience is relevant to them.

Summary of the role:

The initial focus is the establishment of a Data Management Office which is responsible for overseeing the planning, development, and execution of data management strategies and initiatives within the organisation. You will be responsible for ensuring data discovery, data quality, data security, and data migration across various systems and applications. The ideal candidate should possess strong analytical, communication, and stakeholder management skills to drive effective data management practices and support the organization's data-driven decision-making process. Additionally, you will be responsible for upgrading and driving improvements to the Institutes data driven reporting.

In addition to the establishment of data management processes, it is envisaged that the role will provide subject matter expertise on the data implications of the new transformative applications architecture and in its subsequent implementation. The role will include research into new data enabling technologies and trends, which could be leveraged to improve the organisation’s data management, and you will maintain an awareness and understanding of applicable EU regulations and guidelines as they relate to data.

This role has a reporting line to newly created role of Head of Business Technology Strategy, Design and Delivery.

Key responsibilities

Data management responsibilities

• Design and implement data quality frameworks to identify and resolve data integrity issues.
• Collaborate with stakeholders to establish data quality metrics and ensure adherence to data quality standards.
• Conduct periodic data quality assessments and create improvement plans based on the findings.
• Collaborate with IT teams to establish data integration strategies and data architecture models.
• Oversee the implementation of data integration solutions and ensure data interoperability across systems.
• Evaluate new data technologies and tools that could enhance data management capabilities.
• Coordinate with the business to extract meaningful insights from data.
• Provide guidance on data analysis methodologies and reporting practices.
• Support the development of data-driven reports and dashboards for stakeholders.
• Collaborate with business leaders to understand data requirements and align data management initiatives with business objectives.
• Communicate effectively with stakeholders to ensure their understanding and support for data management initiatives.
• Monitor compliance with data governance policies and make necessary adjustments as needed.

Transformation programme responsibilities:

• Support the Transformation Executive in the definition of requirements and objectives of all data streams in the transformation programme.
• Responsible for the Data Conversion workstream of the Transformation programme, including source and target data mapping, conversion mapping and transformation rules, quality control including completeness and accuracy of data being converted, and post implementation reviews of conversion process.
• Develop and implement data integration strategies to consolidate and streamline data from various sources to ensure a consolidated reporting platform with a single source of truth.
• Design and maintain ETL (Extract, Transform, Load) processes for data extraction and transformation.
• Engaging with the Privacy Manager on GDPR and PI data requirements and Security consideration of said data.
• Engagement with third party suppliers in the mapping of data architectures across multiple SaaS applications.

Data governance responsibilities

• Assist in the establishment and enforce data governance and data quality standards, policies, standards, and procedures.
• Assist in development and enforcement of data security policies and procedures to protect sensitive data.
• Ensure compliance with data privacy regulations (e.g., GDPR) and industry best practices.
• Work with the business on the establishment and enforcement of data ownership, data stewardship, and data lifecycle management practices.

Qualifications and Skills:

• Bachelor’s or master’s degree in computer science, Data Management, Information Technology, or a related field.
• Proven experience (5 years) in data management, data governance, or a similar role.
• Strong understanding of data management principles, data quality management, data security, data integration concepts and data governance.
• Experience of data discovery, data cleaning and data migration.
• Familiarity with data analysis, reporting tools, and data visualization techniques. (Power BI, Tableau etc.)
• Stakeholder and people management skills.
• Analytical mindset with problem-solving capabilities.
• Strong communication and interpersonal skills to interact with various stakeholders.
• Ability to work in a fast-paced environment and manage multiple priorities effectively

Flexible work arrangements

The Institute is seeking and encourages applications from experienced candidates who may be looking for flexible work arrangements. If such arrangements are being sought please bring these to the attention of your interviewer.

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Chartered Accountants Ireland is an equal opportunities employer.

How to apply:

Applications, including curriculum vitae, should be sent directly via email to hr@charteredaccountants.ie or alternatively be sent via post to:

Human Resource Department
Chartered Accountants Ireland,
Chartered Accountants House,
47 Pearse Street,
Dublin 2