Director of Business Intelligence

Job Description

Job Description

Description:

Position Responsibilities

Channel is seeking a Director of Business Intelligence to lead the strategy and delivery of enterprise reporting and analytics. This hands-on role oversees dashboard development, reporting automation, and BI team execution to ensure timely, accurate, and actionable insights across the organization. The Director partners with cross-functional teams and IT to support decision-making, maintain data governance, and ensure reliable data for reporting. This role also supports the Modeling & Analytics team to ensure consistency across analytical outputs.

Key Tasks

• Enterprise Reporting Leadership: Lead the strategy and delivery of enterprise-wide reporting, ensuring consistent KPIs and actionable insights across all business units.
• Team Leadership & Development: Lead, mentor, and develop BI Analysts, managing priorities and ensuring timely delivery of high-impact BI initiatives.
• Cross-Functional Requirements Gathering: Partner with Credit, Risk, Sales, Marketing, Collections, Finance, Operations, and Executive Leadership teams to translate business needs into BI solutions.
• Data Governance Collaboration: Work closely with IT to support strong data governance, documentation, and data quality practices that enable reliable reporting.
• Support for Modeling & Analytics: Support the Modeling & Analytics team with data modeling needs to ensure consistency across analytical outputs.
• Hands-On Dashboard Development: Design and build high-impact Power BI dashboards and reports while guiding the team’s development standards and best practices.
• SQL & Data Processing Oversight: Write and optimize SQL queries, oversee data extraction and validation processes, and troubleshooting report pipelines to maintain accuracy and performance.

Skills & Specifications

• Business Acumen: To understand core business drivers and how data influences strategic decision-making.
• Leadership & Influence: To guide and influence cross-functional stakeholders.
• Communication: Ability to explain technical concepts clearly.
• Analytical Thinking: To identify patterns and understand relationships across datasets.
• Problem-Solving: Strong capability to diagnose data issues and root causes.
• Attention to Detail: Precision in validating data and ensuring accuracy in reporting outputs.
• Advanced SQL Proficiency: To write, optimize, and troubleshoot complex SQL queries.
• Data Modeling Knowledge: Understanding of dimensional modeling and analytical data design principles.

Education & Qualifications

• Bachelor’s Degree: In Business Intelligence, Computer Science, Information Systems, Data Analytics, or a related quantitative field.
• Advanced Experience: 8+ years in BI, analytics, or data strategy roles with demonstrated hands-on technical capability.
• Leadership Background: 3+ years supervising and managing team workload and priorities.
• Industry Experience: Financial services or lending experience is preferred
• Master’s Degree: A graduate degree in a related field is considered a differentiator.
• Ability to work onsite out of our Minnetonka, MN, Mount Laurel NJ, or Kennesaw GA office

Company Summary

Channel is a leading provider of equipment finance and working capital funding solutions for small businesses, exclusively through Equipment Finance Companies. Utilizing customized technology and business processes, a strong balance sheet, and risk analytics, Channel provides single-source financing that supports third-party originators and their customers who have business growth opportunities and a need for capital.

Established in 2009, Channel is the only full-service independent lender offering a single-source solution for equipment finance and working capital exclusively through equipment finance companies for their small and midsize business customers. The company is headquartered in Minnetonka, MN, with additional offices in Atlanta, GA, Des Moines, IA, and Marshall, MN. We are proud to be rated a Top Workplace.

Channel empowers and trains team members at all levels to make quick decisions in service to our relationships and ensure the flexibility and nimbleness required to compete in today’s marketplace. Channel is the perfect workplace for those who are motivated and have a desire to be part of a fast-growing, agile, and diverse organization where you can make a difference every day.

The company offers a flexible work environment and encourages innovation and team member development. Benefits include medical, dental, and vision plans with HSA and FSA options; life insurance and disability plans; along with a generous PTO policy and employer-matched company 401K plan.