Financial SAS Analyst-reporting data mining

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Our company, AETEA Information Technology has 5 offices nationwide with over 400 consultants currently working for us. Our clients are Fortune 500 companies in the financial (bank/brokerage), telecommunications, manufacturing, pharmaceutical, and insurance industries.
We offer outstanding compensation packages in return for your professional attitude and highly marketable skills. Medical/Dental/401 K Plan, and Paid Vacation is also available.
We are looking for a strong SAS Analyst to work for a large financial company in Wilmington, DE. This candidate will be using SAS to analyze data and will create reports.
Responsibilities are:
support Finance management through data analysis, research, and reporting.
work with colleagues in divisions across Finance in helping to provide management information that their business processes require.
Be a primary financial & analytic data resource for the Finance Division, drawing appropriately
from various data warehouses in a well thought-out and efficient manner.
Liaise with Finance divisions including Treasury, Accounting, and Forecasting to ensure that data
needs to support business processes are delivered.
Assist in the creation of MI to service all Finance department adhoc requests.
Work to integrate reporting from various systems to develop unified, comprehensive views of
the business.
Work closely with Finance & Technology group to assist with successful implementation of new
management information projects, to include testing and data verification.
Modify current work process to optimize capabilities and improve efficiency to support financial
analysis.
Provides and maintains all database documentation including business requirements, work
flows, standard procedures, and user guides.
Perform special projects as directed by management
REQUIREMENTS:
Ability to data mine large volumes of data and present in a format understood by end users.
Experience translating business requirements from non-technical resources into meaningful
data requirements
Candidate needs to possess superior analytical and communication skills with ability to interact with personnel at all levels of the organization; customer service skills; organizational skills are a must.
Experience with finding process improvements to streamline workflows
Strong written and verbal communication skills.
Highly motivated, energetic, thorough, detail oriented and ability to multi-task.
3 years of experience with analytics in Bank Cards or related financial service industry combined, with an understanding of a credit card P&L a big plus..
Expert proficiency in SAS and Excel is a requirement
Highly proficient in visualisation, scoping and design of a diverse range of data needs.
Strong knowledge of SQL (familiarity with Oracle and Hummingbird Utilities advantageous)
Extremely highly proficient with VBA (Visual Basic for Applications) particularly across the
Microsoft Office Suite, specifically Excel and PowerPoint.
Proficiency in Essbase a big plus.
LENGTH:
6 months , (average length of contract at this client is 18 months)
LOCATION:
Wilmington, DE
MUST BE ABLE TO INTERVIEW IN PERSON IN WILMINGTON, DE-
MUST BE WORKING IN THE US PRIOR TO March 2006 (At least 7 years IN US)
Amy Coldiron
Technical Recruiter
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Aetea Information Technology
Amy Coldiron
AETEA Information Technology Inc
460 Norristown Road
Suite 100
Blue Bell, PA 19422
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