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Staff Consultant (US - Washington DC)

What to expect when you join Sikich

The professional services landscape continues to evolve. For Sikich, this means we have an opportunity to further cement our leadership position in this industry and continue to grow our organization in increasingly exciting ways. This growth is meaningful for every team member at our company because larger companies simply see more interesting client opportunities and can attract impressively talented individuals like you. Through a dedicated focus on key business priorities and intentionally creating a rewarding employee experience, Sikich has developed into a highly regarded provider of professional services and a sought-after employer of choice.

Position summary

What will you do in this role?

• Understand and grasp client business requirements
• Review data sources to validate their quality and determine their utility for measuring performance.
• Organize logical data models to consolidate data from various systems under the supervision of a senior team member.
  
• Develop dashboards to monitor required measures and visualization trends at all levels of the organization under the supervision of a senior team member.
  
• Write technical documentation for data, dashboards, and other analytics as part of the governance framework.
• Contribute to non-technical deliverables, presentation materials, status reports and coordinating meetings.

What do you need to succeed in this role?

• Experience with developing Tableau/Power BI data visualization dashboards to communicate insights to both technical and non-technical stakeholders.
• Proficiency in SQL, Excel, and/or Python for querying, analyzing, and transforming large datasets.
• Experience with developing data models to transform and harmonize data from disparate data sets.
• Basic knowledge of statistical analysis techniques (trend analysis, distributions, clustering, outlier detection).
• Ability to design data validation, quality checks, and integrity assessments to ensure reliability of reporting.
• Proficiency with Microsoft PowerPoint and Word, with the ability to create polished, client-ready deliverables.
• Strong oral and written communication skills, including ability to craft professional communications for a variety of stakeholders (business process owners up to C-Suite).
• Responsiveness to client needs and dedication to client service.

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  Values driven – You embody and model absolute integrity and servant leadership and you have a bias for action and continuous innovation.
• Uncompromising problem solver – You see opportunities in every business challenge and can develop, articulate and implement solutions.
• Collaboration – You are a relationship builder across all levels of the organization and across all business units.
• Instills trust – You do what you say, without ego, and you follow through on commitments consistently and credibly.
• Impact & influence – You are relentlessly focused on making a difference and can gain support for ideas, proposals and solutions. You get others to act, with or without formal authority, to advance initiatives and objectives.

About Sikich

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Our team members enjoy expansive benefits ranging from competitive compensation and insurance options to wellness programs and a flexible time off policy, to name only a few. Sikich also takes pride in prioritizing team members’ health, total wellbeing and time spent with family, friends and in the pursuit of personal goals, hobbies, and endeavors.

• Sikich maintains a Flexible Time Off (FTO) Policy. We encourage every full-time employee, as your role permits, to utilize paid time off (personal time, mental/physical health care, vacation, sick leave, etc.). Waiting for time off to accrue is common at other companies. At Sikich, you do not have to wait for this benefit to kick in. FTO is activated on your first day with our organization.
• Sikich will also recognize paid holidays during the year and strives to permit employees to have time off the last week of the calendar year when client and project work permits.
• Sikich offers a comprehensive wellness program to engage, challenge and empower team members to take responsibility for their wellbeing. Activities can be tracked through our wellness provider to obtain gift cards and other rewards.

We also offer:

• Flexible work arrangements
• Health, dental, vision, life, and accident/death/disability insurance options
• HSA employer contribution
• Nine (9) paid holidays annually.
• A robust paid Parental Bonding Leave program covering birth, adoption, and foster children.
• 401(k) with employer contributions
• CPA bonus with four (4) paid exam days & four (4) paid study days.
• Tuition reimbursement
• Generous employee referral bonus program
• Client referral bonus program
• Pet insurance
• FORCE – Sikich community volunteer program enabling each team member to use up to four hours of paid time annually to volunteer and make a difference in their local communities.

Official correspondence will come from a Sikich.com email address and applicants/candidates are invited to contact us directly to verify communications.

Want to learn more? Visit our Careers website or Glassdoor profile.

Sikich is an Equal Opportunity Employer M/F/D/V