Vice President, Data Analytics

Portage Point Partners (Portage Point) is a business advisory, interim management and investment banking firm intensely focused on the middle market. Our blue-chip team leverages bulge bracket experience in consulting, operations, finance, accounting, investment banking and investing to provide unmatched transactional, operational, financial and strategic perspectives to middle market stakeholders. The Portage Point cross-functional platform is uniquely architected to offer fully integrated capabilities and solutions that identify value capture, mitigate risk and positively impact outcomes at every stage of the ever-changing middle market business lifecycle. From ideation to monetization, Portage Point delivers excellence across transaction advisory services (TAS), transaction execution services (TES), office of the CFO (OCFO), performance improvement (PI), interim management (IM), investment banking (IB) and turnaround and financial restructuring (TRS).

Recognized for accelerated growth, Portage Point is backed by New Mountain Capital and is consistently featured in rankings from Inc. 5000, The Financial Times and Consulting Magazine. This recognition is a testament to the focus on excellence, intensity and pace and ability to attract blue chip talent committed to delivering impactful solutions.

The Delivery Enablement (DE) team supports internal stakeholders by providing a robust operational backbone across TAS, TES, OCFO, PI, IM, IB and TRS. The team includes Talent Acquisition, Human Resources, Marketing, Data Analytics (DA), Accounting & Finance and Delivery Excellence. As Portage Point continues to grow, the DE team is laser focused on scalability, quality and automation.

The Vice President, Data Analytics represents a unique opportunity for a highly motivated professional to drive value creation initiatives for internal stakeholders, private equity funds, direct lenders and corporate clients. The ideal candidate is a visionary leader and technologist who can not only contribute to the development of our data management and analytics service offerings but also lay the foundational elements for our technological growth. This role is a blend of internal operational excellence and external, client-facing consultancy offering a unique challenge for a highly skilled professional. Qualified individuals should be prepared to work collaboratively in a fast-paced environment delivering cutting-edge data and technology solutions both internally and for a diverse range of clients.

• Work directly with Portage Point team members and clients to identify and develop data analytics solutions across all practice lines
• Lead, manage, implement and maintain client and internal data analytics workstreams
• Design, build, launch, optimize and extend full-stack data and business intelligence solutions spanning extraction, storage, complex transformation and visualization
• Serve as the primary point of contact for questions and escalations related to data architecture and solutions applicable to business problems or use cases
• Develop big data and cloud-based applications to facilitate data analytics capabilities
• Draft clear and compelling reports and data visualizations outlining key takeaways
• Participate and lead management meetings
• Assess the usefulness of new technologies and advocate for their adoption
• Anticipate and identify risks within engagements and sharing any issues with senior members of the team
• Share and manage best practices as well as lead internal trainings where required
• Support talent acquisition and firm development efforts as needed
• Contribute to creating a high-performing and inclusive culture

• Bachelor’s degree from a top undergraduate program
• Located or willing to relocate to Chicago, Dallas or New York
• Invested in a team-based culture that involves in office four days per week and willing to work at client sites as needed 
• Advanced skills in Power BI, Tableau, Tableau Prep, Dataiku and other visualization and BI platforms; ability to confidently construct a client facing dashboard related to financial analysis with minimal oversight
• Three plus years of experience working as a data architect, data engineer and / or business intelligence engineer with advanced knowledge of data platforms (e.g., Snowflake, Azure Synapse, AWS Redshift, Google Big Query, SQL Server, Oracle, etc.), database management tools and programming languages and / or Microsoft specific languages (Python, SQL, DAX, Power Query M, VBA, etc.)
• Experience creating and maintaining ETL / ELT pipelines that operate on a variety of sources such as APIs, FTP sites, databases including relational and semi-structured data
• A broad appreciation of business processes, data structures, IT applications and infrastructure, IT processes, and governance and internal control principles
• Quantitative reasoning skills including proficiency in statistics and mathematics
• Working knowledge of descriptive / informative analytics, predictive analytics, prescriptive / decision making analytics, social media analytics, risk & control analytics, process analytics, operational analytics, financial modelling and risk scoring & modeling
• Strong analytical skills, including experience with data cleaning, transformation and analysis
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills, with the ability to effectively convey technical findings to non-technical audiences
• Ability to successfully work in a small, collaborative team environment
• High degree of maturity with a proven ability to interact with senior executives, private equity sponsors, lenders, lawyers, middle managers and line workers
• Effectively communicates analysis through Microsoft Word, Excel, Outlook and PowerPoint including high-quality messaging, structure and formatting
• Eagerness to be responsive at all times
• Proven track-record of success in high pressure, time-constrained environments
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills including strong corporate e-mail etiquette
• Top-tier organizational skills and attention to detail
• Self-starter and entrepreneurial spirit

Salary : $145,000 - $190,000