Senior Data Analyst

Senior Data AnalystBecome the newest member of our exciting team at SROA Capital as we redefine self-storage!At SROA, we offer a career and opportunity to grow. We strongly believe in growing our talent and promoting within. We are proud to be honored as one of the TOP WORKPLACES of South Florida by the Sun Sentinel three years in a row.SROA Capital is a vertically integrated private equity real estate investment firm that has evolved into a global asset manager with a successful track record of providing risk adjusted returns to its partners through its focused strategy of investing in self-storage. SROA is headquartered in West Palm Beach, FL and has invested, redeveloped, and developed self storage across the risk spectrum in major and secondary markets across the United States under the brand Storage Rentals of America and the UK under the brand Kangaroo Self Storage with approximately 900 employees globally.The Senior Data Analyst will be the company's Microsoft Power BI subject matter expert, helping establish scalable reporting practices, semantic and metric consistency, dashboard standards, and effective self-service analytics. The role will combine hands-on analytical expertise with strong business analysis, documentation, quality assurance, and delivery management skills to improve the speed, consistency, and business value of analytics products. The role will also help evaluate and responsibly adopt AI-enabled analytics capabilities that improve data exploration, analyst productivity, insight generation, and self-service analytics while maintaining appropriate data security, governance, validation, and human oversight.This position will partner closely with Technology leadership, operations, revenue management, marketing, finance, investment teams, data engineering, application teams, vendors, and other stakeholders. In addition to ongoing BI and reporting initiatives, the Senior Data Analyst will support property acquisitions, COTS product integrations, report rationalization, data migration activities, and other projects where data, reporting, and business process requirements must be clearly defined and validated.Duties and ResponsibilitiesServe as the primary business-facing analyst for Data Intelligence initiatives, facilitating discovery sessions to understand business objectives, processes, reporting needs, pain points, and success measuresTranslate business requirements into clear, actionable functional requirements, user stories, acceptance criteria, data definitions, mockups, report specifications, and technical documentation suitable for distributed development teamsLead the analytics factory workflow from intake through delivery, including requirements clarification, prioritization, backlog readiness, developer handoff, status coordination, quality assurance, user acceptance testing, and business sign-offServe as the Microsoft Power BI subject matter expert and establish standards and best practices for dashboard design, semantic models, data modeling, DAX, Power Query, performance, usability, security, deployment, and maintainabilityPartner with offshore BI developers and other delivery resources to answer questions, resolve ambiguity, review designs, validate output, and ensure delivered solutions meet documented business requirements and quality standardsSupport report rationalization by evaluating existing reports, dashboards, data sources, usage patterns, business value, duplication, retirement candidates, consolidation opportunities, and migration to a scalable Power BI-based reporting environmentSupport the ongoing development, maintenance, quality, adoption, and evolution of enterprise dashboards and other executive and operational reporting assetsDefine and document business metrics, calculations, dimensions, filters, hierarchies, and reporting logic to improve consistency and trust across dashboards and analytical productsPerform hands-on analysis using Power BI, SQL, Excel, and related tools to investigate business questions, validate data, reconcile results, identify trends, and communicate actionable insightsEvaluate and apply AI-enabled analytics capabilities—including Microsoft Copilot, Fabric AI capabilities, natural-language analytics, automated insight generation, and AI-assisted SQL/DAX development—to improve productivity and accelerate insight delivery while ensuring outputs are validated, secure, governed, and appropriate for business usePartner with data engineering, application teams, infrastructure, security, vendors, and business owners to ensure reporting and analytics solutions are reliable, scalable, secure, governed, and aligned with enterprise architectureSupport property acquisition activities by assessing source-system data, reporting needs, KPI alignment, data mapping, conversion requirements, validation rules, and post-conversion reporting readinessSupport COTS product implementations and integrations by documenting data and reporting requirements, source-to-target mappings, interfaces, reconciliation needs, downstream impacts, and business acceptance criteriaContribute to practical data governance by documenting data ownership, definitions, lineage, quality expectations, stewardship responsibilities, and approved business rules as part of normal analytics deliveryCreate clear communication for Technology and business stakeholders, including requirements documents, process flows, status updates, risks, dependencies, decisions, test results, release notes, and user guidancePromote analytical rigor, documentation, reuse, knowledge sharing, continuous improvement, and measurable business impact across the Data Intelligence delivery processRequirementsBachelor degree and 5+ years of progressive experience in data analytics, business intelligence, reporting, analytics engineering, business analysis, or related technology functionsAdvanced hands-on experience with Microsoft Power BI, including dashboard and report development, data modeling, semantic models, DAX, Power Query, performance optimization, and deployment practicesDemonstrated experience eliciting, analyzing, documenting, and validating business requirements for data, reporting, dashboard, or analytics solutionsExperience translating business requirements into detailed specifications, user stories, acceptance criteria, data definitions, mockups, and other artifacts that can be executed by remote development teamsStrong understanding of BI delivery lifecycles, dimensional and analytical data modeling, metric definition, reporting standards, dashboard usability, and self-service analytics enablementStrong SQL skills and experience analyzing, validating, reconciling, and troubleshooting data across multiple source systems and enterprise data platformsExperience performing quality assurance and user acceptance testing for dashboards, reports, data products, integrations, or analytical solutionsExperience partnering with cross-functional business stakeholders to clarify business questions, manage competing priorities, communicate trade-offs, and drive decisions to closureAbility to communicate effectively with both business and technical audiences and to convert ambiguous requests into structured, testable requirementsStrong problem-solving, critical-thinking, documentation, facilitation, prioritization, stakeholder management, and project coordination skillsAbility to work effectively with geographically distributed teams and to manage multiple initiatives in a fast-paced, evolving, multi-site organizationHigh attention to detail with a strong commitment to data accuracy, metric consistency, documentation quality, and business outcomesPreferredExperience in self-storage, retail, real estate, property operations, revenue management, marketing analytics, investment analytics, or another multi-site operating environmentExperience supporting a distributed analytics delivery model, BI center of excellence, managed-service model, or other structured development factoryExperience with Microsoft Fabric, Azure data services, data warehouses, data lakes, data marts, gateways, deployment pipelines, or related Microsoft analytics technologiesExperience supporting property acquisitions, mergers, system conversions, data migrations, or post-acquisition integration activitiesExperience supporting COTS software implementations and integrations, particularly where data mapping, reporting, reconciliation, and downstream analytics are material to project successExperience using AI-enabled analytics tools such as Microsoft Copilot, Microsoft Fabric AI capabilities, Azure AI, or comparable platforms to accelerate data exploration, visualization, SQL/DAX development, documentation, and insight generationWorking knowledge of generative AI concepts, prompt engineering, natural-language analytics, and techniques for validating AI-generated analysis for accuracy, bias, data privacy, security, and appropriate business useExperience incorporating governed AI capabilities into BI or analytics workflows, including self-service analytics, automated insight generation, or AI-assisted analyst and developer productivityRelevant Microsoft certifications, including Power BI Data Analyst Associate or equivalent analytics, data platform, cloud, Agile, or business analysis certificationsSROA OffersCompetitive pay with bonus potentialUKG Wallet – on-demand pay option100% paid medical coverage options for employee-onlyDental and vision plans for optimal careEight (8) paid holidaysGenerous Paid Time Off (PTO), increasing with years of servicePaid Maternity and Parental Leave for growing families401(k) with substantial employer match and 100% immediate vestingFlexible Spending Accounts (FSA), Health