Accounting & Finance

Senior Reporting Analyst – 15 Months

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Ottawa · On · Canada

  • Assess, streamline, redesign and rebuild existing Cognos reporting assets in Power BI
  • Collaborate with business users, data teams, technology partners and reporting leads
  • Identify current reporting needs and document data and business logic
  • Validate source-to-target mappings
  • Create Power BI reports and semantic models that comply with EDC standards for governance, performance, usability and maintainability
  • Analyze Cognos reports, folders, queries, calculations, filters, security requirements and usage patterns
  • Identify redundant or low-value reports and recommend consolidation, redesign or retirement
  • Document logic, layouts, data sources, mappings, dependencies and business rules
  • Design reports, dashboards, paginated reports and semantic models in Power BI
  • Transform and validate data using SQL, Power Query, DAX and approved data sources
  • Support user acceptance testing, reconcile Cognos and Power BI, analyze variances and document results
  • Collaborate with data engineering, architecture, governance and platform teams
  • Prepare inventory updates, technical documentation, user guides and knowledge transfer materials
  • Contribute to migration planning, prioritization, status reporting, and issue and risk tracking
  • Support production deployment, post-implementation validation and transition to ongoing support

Requirements

  • Bachelor’s degree in business, computer science, management information systems, data analytics, finance or a related discipline, or an equivalent combination of education and experience
  • At least 7 years of experience in business intelligence, reporting and data analytics, including developing large-scale reporting or analytics solutions on enterprise analytics platforms such as Cognos, Tableau or Power BI
  • Experience developing reports, dashboards, semantic models or paginated reports in Power BI
  • Experience with Microsoft Fabric
  • Experience analyzing, reverse-engineering or migrating reports from IBM Cognos Analytics to Power BI
  • Strong SQL skills and experience working with relational databases, data marts, data warehouses or enterprise data platforms
  • Proven ability to gather requirements, document business logic, validate results and communicate findings to technical and business audiences
  • Experience supporting report testing, reconciliation, defect resolution and stakeholder sign-off
  • Candidates must meet government security requirements
  • Preference will be given to candidates legally authorized to work in Canada at the time of application
  • Assets: experience in financial services, banking or insurance; data governance; metadata; lineage; report inventory management; Azure DevOps; Agile methodologies; proficiency in both official languages

Core Competencies

Demonstrates expertise in Power BI report development, data transformation using SQL and DAX, and effective collaboration with cross-functional teams to meet business intelligence needs. Proven ability to analyze and migrate reporting assets from Cognos to Power BI while ensuring compliance with governance standards.

Highest-signal resume keywords

  • Power BI Report Development
  • SQL Proficiency
  • Cognos to Power BI Migration
  • Data Governance
  • Business Intelligence Solutions

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Hard Skills

  • Power BI
  • SQL
  • DAX
  • Power Query
  • Cognos Analytics
  • Data Analysis
  • Report Development
  • Semantic Models
  • Data Validation
  • Report Testing

Soft Skills

  • Collaboration
  • Communication
  • Documentation
  • Problem-Solving
  • Stakeholder Engagement

Industry Keywords

  • Business Intelligence
  • Data Analytics
  • Financial Services
  • Banking
  • Insurance
  • Data Governance
  • Metadata
  • Lineage
  • Report Inventory Management
  • Agile Methodologies

Tools & Technologies

  • Microsoft Fabric
  • Azure DevOps
  • Enterprise Data Platforms
  • Data Warehouses
  • Data Marts

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