Reporting and Data Insights Analyst

Welcome to Gordon Food Service! We are excited that you are thinking about opportunities with us, and we have an amazing story to share. See below for a quick glance of who we are and the impact you could have on the food service industry. There’s a seat at our table for you…

The Reporting and Data Insights Analyst is responsible for the design and delivery of reporting solutions, insights, and analytics. Partners with leadership on the development and implementation of data insights.

What you will do:

Reporting

• Serves as an Internal Audit reporting and continuous improvement expert with deep knowledge of current reporting and data functionality, design concepts, creating strong partnerships with relevant process areas
• Partners with the Internal Audit, Asset Protection, and Enterprise Risk Management teams to deeply understand business problems to solve, key questions to be answered, and how the reporting tools developed will fit into business process decision-making.
• Develops interactive and easy-to-understand data visualizations using best practices to effectively solve business problems by enabling business insights and making recommendations.
• Interprets data and analyzes results using statistical techniques to deliver data in a useful and appealing way to users. Recommends definitions for new and updated metrics, and supports metric data governance and documentation.
• Familiar with blending multiple data sources together into cohesive insights

Data Governance

• Develops data standards, policies, and procedures, including methodologies for monitoring, analyzing and correcting data usage, distribution, and reporting.
• Facilitates collaboration and cross-functional partnerships in the department to solve the team’s most pressing challenges
• Evaluates priorities and works through complex issues to identify, develop and implement effective solutions for process optimization and/or automation.
• Assists with change management, communication, and training initiatives that advance the department’s data governance and reporting abilities and maturity.
• Supports implementing scalable frameworks, standards and data best practices while upholding integrity and privacy across our data ecosystem and lifecycle.
• Works as a data steward hand-in-hand with the managers of the critical data systems to convey data governance needs.
• Supports the documentation and implementation of data quality policies, standards, and procedures for both legacy and new data environments.
• Develops and delivers training to the end-users on new and existing dashboards, AI tools, and automations..

When you will work:

• Monday through Friday, 8:00am - 5:00pm.
• Hybrid Work Schedule: 4 days in office, 1 day from home.

• Bachelor’s degree in Finance, Accounting, Computer Science, Information Systems, or Data Science (or equivalent) plus 2 or more years of experience data analytics (e.g., Visual Looker, Power BI, Tableau, etc.) and Artificial Intelligence tools (e.g. Gemini, ChatGPT, Claude, etc).
• Effective understanding of Data Governance and Data Quality concepts
• Analytical and problem-solving skills combined with strong business discernment and an ability to communicate analysis in a clear and compelling manner.
• Experience in reporting, including developing complex reports, layouts, and analytics for business purposes.
• Project oversight in support of overall direction and delivery of analytics and data governance solutions
• Experience gathering requirements, designing, prototyping, testing, and deploying solutions to meet customer requirements.
• Passion for exceptional customer service
• Strong communication and presentation skills, with the ability to effectively manage customer expectations.
• Comfortable helping translate ambiguity into tangibility