What's the role?

This is a 12 month Fixed term contract role where you will design and implement advanced business intelligence tools and analytics frameworks that enable the commercial finance team and other stakeholders to make informed decisions. By interpreting complex financial and operational data, you will identify trends and insights that support improvements across key performance areas including revenue growth, cost efficiency, process optimization, and quality enhancement.

Responsibilities:

Reporting, Analytics & Data

Proactively deliver data-driven insights and recommendations to stakeholders through BI and analytics tools.

Work with stakeholders to scope, develop and implement robust solutions with a focus on automation and self-serve capabilities.

Contribute to the stability of solutions during key reporting periods by debugging and working across teams to resolve root cause issues.

Support maintenance & enhancement of existing data models, processes and dashboard reporting.

Work with IT data services to design data lakes and data models based on business requirements

Ensure solutions are properly documented on agreed enterprise platforms 

Change Management

Work with the Senior analyst to ensure new solutions are rolled out and land with stakeholders with the appropriate training, documentation and support channels in place.

Increase data literacy across the Finance community to bolster use of solutions and buy in for future projects 

Innovation

Champion new AI/Analytics solutions and proactively suggest initiatives that will add value to the organisation

Contribute to working groups and roadmap initiatives including presentation of ideas

Who are you?

You are highly skilled in BI tools (preferably Looker, LookerML, Looker Studio), SQL, Python and Alteryx with proven skill in writing and executing optimised queries in Google BigQuery. Any experience with machine learning is desired.

You are a self-starter comfortable with ambiguity, with strong attention to detail and an ability to work in a fast-paced and ever-changing environment.

You can design, develop, maintain scaled, automated reports and dashboards that will support commercial finance teams with their key stakeholders across strategic growth deliverables.

You have a proven track record working on initiatives that start only with a defined outcome.

You are comfortable taking defined outcomes and converting into necessary requirements and work actions.

You have an aptitude for or a desire to develop skillsets in descriptive, diagnostic, predictive and preventative analytics using various data analytic technologies.

You have an understanding of statistical analysis and concepts such as regression/predictive modelling.

News Benefits

News Benefits is our way of saying thank you to our people for their valued contribution to News, our audiences, clients and communities. Thanking them for the great things they do daily, for the greater good of Australia. Our benefits include:

Exclusively ours - Access to publications and products from across the News Corp familyHealth & wellbeing - Advice, support and facilities for healthy minds and bodies (including an onsite gym at our Adelaide, Brisbane & Sydney offices) Time off - News offers a range of leave options to support your personal needs and moments that matter in life: Parental leave, Birthday leave, Volunteer leave, Career break and Compassionate leave.Helping you grow - Development opportunities (including diversity and inclusion - focused education series) and recognitionFinancial wellbeing - Support on making the most of your moneyPerks & discounts - Exclusive offers across a range of products and servicesGiving back - Make a difference to our communities.Workplace Inclusion and facilities – Engage with your passions through various employee-resource groups and accessibility to multi-faith quiet rooms & parents’ rooms

Who are we?

We form part of the nation’s most influential media organisation, News Corp Australia. We reach an
unduplicated audience of 16 million Australians every month. We lead the way with number-one websites
news.com.au, realestate.com.au and kidspot.com.au. We have the largest online audience in the country,
with a bigger digital footprint than Facebook. We are currently undergoing an enterprise-wide data
transformation program and this is the perfect opportunity to be a valued contributor.

What’s next?

Apply now or for more information on careers at News Corp Australia visit www.newscorpaustralia.com/careers

Our Commitment to Diversity, Equity and Inclusion We know that diversity strengthens our teams and newsrooms as we seek to tell stories that represent the diverse communities of Australia that we serve. Our people make us unique and we all have a story. We encourage people of all ages, backgrounds, races, cultures, religions, sexual orientations, abilities and gender identities to apply. Inclusion is important to us and we want everyone at News to bring their whole-selves to work. If you require any accommodations or adjustments throughout the recruitment process, or would like to outline which pronouns you prefer, please feel free to let us know.

If you require any accommodations or adjustments throughout the recruitment process, please feel free to let us know. For more information regarding Diversity, Equity and Inclusion at NewsCorp Australia please visit www.newscorpaustralia.com/careers under the DEI section.

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Finance and Strategy