Analyst (Power BI & Reporting)

Date: Apr 17, 2024

Location: New Orleans, Louisiana, United States

Company: Entergy

Posting End Date:

Work Place Flexibility: Hybrid

Legal Entity: Entergy Services, LLC

This position can be filled as an Analyst III or Analyst SR depending on previous experience and related qualifications.

JOB SUMMARY/PURPOSE

KeyString Labs (KSL) is Entergy’s innovation center, charged with developing new products and services to meet the evolving needs of customers. KSL is looking for an Analyst, III-Sr. to lead and support critical business initiatives tied to the reporting of portfolio performance associated with our innovation efforts, including (but not limited to): the development and maintenance of strategic presentations, product development tracking structure, performance metrics, and reporting materials. This is a key role within KSL that requires a robust understanding of KSL’s strategic direction, innovation process, and how the various activities underway within the Lab contribute to it. The ideal candidate will be a self-starter, tech-savvy, a team player, and a solid problem solver with strong collaboration abilities and a history of developing, tracking, and deriving value-adding insights from key performance indicators. This role will aid KSL in identifying and driving best practices associated with data management and portfolio reporting. This role is intended to be a central mechanism of service across KeyString Labs in service of our functions by telling the story of our work through visually captivating, easy-to-digest reporting. This role is an essential part of the KSL business, unlocking the potential of our team through supporting presentation creation, storytelling, reporting, data maintenance, and systems management.

JOB DUTIES/RESPONSIBILITIES

• Support the assessment, development, and implementation of innovation metrics relative to the KeyString Labs innovation portfolio of products.

• Evaluate innovation portfolio data for accuracy, distribution, and presentation of results to relevant internal clients and executive leaders. Partner with cohorts to cultivate and ensure that all presentations meet KeyString Labs standards and are accurate to tell the story of KeyString Labs to key stakeholders.

• Create presentations for different audiences (executives, operating companies, and other partners across the organization) that tell the story of KSL’s strategic direction, product-specific developments, key performance indicators, financial and budgetary matters, and innovation resources. The ability to collaborate with KSL team members and establish and maintain a deep understanding of KSL’s innovation efforts is critical to successfully perform these duties.

• Drive data integrity processes and data responsibility associated with KSL innovation portfolio. Develop and maintain data visualization reporting tools that tell the story of KSL performance and value added.

• Monitor the performance of KSL product teams and track their progress against key performance indicators. Drive data integrity processes and data responsibility associated with KSL innovation portfolio. Results will be captured in a dashboard format that will be used to communicate with partners and leadership across the organization. The person in this role will be responsible for creating and maintaining the reporting dashboards and collecting and manipulating the data that feeds the dashboard. A deep understanding of ongoing innovation activities, an understanding of financial and operational indicators, and the ability to collect and manipulate different data sets will be required to do this successfully.

• Work with members of the IPPM team, product teams, and partners across the organization to develop engagement strategies that build upon existing or establish new relationships and key partnerships, both internal and external to the organization. Educate stakeholders on KeyString Labs, KSL innovation activities, and KSL strategic focus areas.

• Participate and support miscellaneous innovation efforts as needed. This includes, but is not limited to, the following: capturing key takeaways and action items from strategic discussions with partners across the organization, capturing key takeaways and action items from strategic discussions with potential partners outside of the organization, the planning and implementation of innovation-related collaborations (e.g. hackathons, ideation sessions, business plan competitions, etc.), etc. This duty also requires a solid understanding of the group’s process and strategy, the ongoing innovation activities underway, and how the stakeholders, both inside and outside of the organization, fit into these strategies and activities underway.

• Collaborate with innovation leaders and teams to create and deliver internal documents, with accuracy; facilitate required input for needed continual tracking and reporting of progress and metrics;facilitate use of updated data for internal/external website maintenance; and, coordinate and actively participate in meetings to understand needs, provide input and solution tracking and reporting challenges, help take notes and capture actions where applicable.

• Strategically and consistently create digital storage solutions for KeyString Labs and maintain a centralized repository for information.

Minimum Requirements - Education

• Bachelor's Degree in a technical or business-related field required or equivalent work experience will be accepted.

• Desired: Master's Degree

Minimum Requirements - Experience

• Analyst III: 4-6 years of professional experience

• Analyst SR: 6+ years of professional experience

Minimum Requirements - Knowledge, skills, and abilities:

• Analytical skill set with advanced knowledge of Microsoft Office: Word, Excel, PowerPoint.

• Experience developing, publishing, and maintaining Power BI reporting solutions

• Desired: Experience with Air Table

Preferred Requirements:

• Excellent verbal and written communicator, able to effectively develop and present recommendations and points of view at all levels of the company.

• Excellent organizational and planning skills to manage program initiatives.

• Possess strong interpersonal, leadership, analytical, and decision-making abilities.

• Ability to recognize opportunities for process improvement and have the ability to enact change.

• Ability to work effectively both independently and in a team environment, manage multiple levels of projects and/or assignments, and operate in a highly visible and rapidly changing work environment.

• Proficiency with analytical tools to follow project plans, conduct performance analyses, establish Key Performance Indicators, and establish scorecards.

• Ability to understand database functionality and support data collection and reporting governance.

• Proficiency in Microsoft Power BI, SQL Server Reporting Services (SSRS), and SQL Server Management Studio with the ability to write and run SQL queries to join tables and retrieve data.

• Advanced capabilities in Excel and Access (e.g., VLOOKUP, pivot tables, conditional formatting, creating, and linking data sources)

• Experience building and maintaining a SharePoint site.

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Primary Location: Louisiana - New Orleans Louisiana : New Orleans || Texas : Beaumont || Texas : The Woodlands

Job Function : Innovation / KSL

FLSA Status : Professional

Relocation Option: Level II

Union description/code : NON BARGAINING UNIT

Number of Openings : 1

Req ID: 114526

Travel Percentage : Up to 25%

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