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Finance BI Developer

BdoAustin, TXL5 SeniorAugust 25th, 2026
Senior Finance Bi DeveloperThe Senior Finance BI Developer is a role within the Finance department responsible for designing, building, and supporting high-quality reporting, analytics, and automation solutions that enable informed business decisions. This position partners with internal stakeholders to understand reporting and analytics needs, translates business requirements into scalable semantic models, reports, SQL queries, Power Query transformations, and Power Automate workflows, and applies Power BI, SQL, M code, data modeling, automation, and visualization best practices. The role serves as an experienced technical contributor within the Finance BI team, helping deliver reliable solutions, improve development consistency, support documentation and training, and provide technical guidance to other developers while escalating broader architecture, strategy, and governance decisions to the Lead Developer or Finance BI leadership.Job duties include:Exercises diligence with financial information by maintaining accurate results, safeguarding sensitive data, and supporting trusted business decisionsDevelops, tests, deploys, and supports Power BI reports, semantic models, and related analytics solutions for Finance stakeholdersTroubleshoots issues related to report performance, refresh failures, data discrepancies, access issues, and user-reported defectsMaintains and enhances existing Power BI assets, including refactoring legacy reports, adding documentation, improving usability, consolidating duplicate reports, and reducing technical debtBuilds visualizations that take complex information and make it more accessible, understandable, and usable to derive insights and enable better business decisionsCreates complex Data Analysis Expression (DAX) measures to support the data analysis needs of visualizationsDevelops and maintains SQL queries, views, and data extraction logic to support Power BI semantic models, reports, and data validation activitiesUses Power Query and M code to clean, transform, combine, and shape data from multiple sources into reliable, reusable reporting-ready datasetsPartners with business stakeholders to gather requirements, clarify reporting objectives, and translate business needs into effective technical solutionsApplies established Finance BI development standards, data modeling practices, reusable templates, and governance expectations to ensure consistency and quality across deliverablesContributes to reusable components, templates, and documentation that improve development efficiency and support team standardsLeverages AI technology responsibly to improve efficiency and insights while protecting data privacy, security, and compliance requirementsDesigns, builds, monitors, and troubleshoots Power Automate workflows that support reporting processes, data collection, approval workflows, notifications, and operational efficiencies across Microsoft 365 applicationsUnderstands business requirements and design data models to transform raw data into meaningful insights and compelling storiesApplies branding standards, intentional design choices, color palettes, and report design standards to create clear, consumable, and professional reportsMaintains an up-to-date knowledge of Power BI updates and data visualization approachesCreates and maintains data model documentation explaining calculations, parameters, relationships, security design, and refresh logicDevelops training documentation and user guidance for Power BI reports and related analytics solutionsCollaborates with data engineers and other technical partners to obtain data needed to support Finance BI data modelsManages workspaces, permissions, deployments, and Power BI apps in accordance with team standards and access control expectationsDesign and support complex Row Level Security (RLS) within Power BISupports onboarding, training, and mentoring of team members on Power BI development practices, documentation expectations, and report support processesPerforms peer reviews of Power BI reports, semantic models, DAX measures, data transformations, and documentation before deploymentAbility to work after hours and weekends as neededOther duties as assignedQualifications, knowledge, skills, and abilities:Education:Bachelor's degree, requiredExperience:Five (5) or more years of experience within Data Analytics, Business Intelligence or Application Development, requiredExperience working with Finance data, preferredSoftware:Strong SQL skills requiredTwo (2) or more years of experience with Data Modeling, Semantic Model Definition or Star Schema Construction, requiredThree (3) or more years of experience with Power BI, requiredStrong SQL query development skills, including joins, aggregations, views, data validation, troubleshooting, and performance-aware query design, requiredExperience developing, maintaining, and troubleshooting Microsoft Power Automate workflows to support reporting, approvals, notifications, data collection, and process automation, preferredOther knowledge, skills & abilities:Ability to interact effectively with people at all organizational levels and communicate complex concepts to senior and non-technical audiencesCapacity to build and maintain strong relationships with internal and client personnelSolid organizational and excellent verbal and written communication skillsAbility to successfully multi-task while working independently or within a group environmentComprehensive knowledge of data design, data modeling, data management, and data visualizationStrong analytical and research skills related to the retrieval and organization of high volumes of informationAbility to work in a deadline-driven environment, and handle multiple projects simultaneouslyA team player who takes initiative, supports team standards, and contributes to shared team successExcellent organizational and time management skillsKeywords: Data Analytics, Business Intelligence, Machine Learning, Power BI, Azure, DAX, API, RLS, Row Level Security, Application Programming Interface, Data Analysis Expression, Power Automate, Python