The Role
Lead end-to-end analytics solutions: gather requirements with stakeholders, build production-quality ETL and visualizations, coach junior analysts, communicate progress and roadblocks, support proposals and pitches, and contribute to firm initiatives and client delivery.
Summary Generated by Built In
Meet the Company:
We are MERU. A values-driven, impact-oriented team dedicated to fixing companies. We provide advisory services and data analytics support to middle-market companies ($50M - $2B in annual sales), and our clients include private equity firms, credit funds, investment banks, and law firms. We bring deep turnaround experience, a group of veteran operators, and an incentive-aligned approach to any situation. MERU was founded by professionals from Alvarez & Marsal and McKinsey and has seen rapid growth in the eight-plus years since its founding.
The MERU Way & Valuing Our Team:
We're Partners, not consultants. When you join MERU, you will help our clients solve their most pressing problems, supported by a team of people who will challenge you, support you, and inspire you.
In order to be Partners, we don't silo people into just one functional area of the business, instead advancing our team's capabilities by providing training for every service that MERU offers. Additionally, we don't just focus on technical skills but also leadership style and soft skills, so MERU team members not only know what it means to manage a client engagement but to lead a team to success. In training team members to be well-rounded individuals, we can deliver an overall higher impact to clients, allowing the ability to gain experience in diligence, turnarounds, interim management, data science, and more.
To aid this career advancement and development, MERU provides an internal Coach to each team member in order to guide and maintain their professional development plan goals. Unlike most Firms, we actually focus on the achievement of those goals for each individual team member, providing opportunities that would not usually be offered.
Finally, MERU values personal time, only traveling when necessary in order to celebrate and respect your personal life. We believe that by encouraging and mandating balance, it will lead to happier and longer-tenured team members.
When you come to MERU, you come to further your career and maintain your entrepreneurial spirit, never losing sight of the desire to provide meaningful impact, solutions, and value to clients. Learn more about our colleagues’ core characteristics and culture here: https://wearemeru.com/meru-way/
Analytics Engineer Responsibilities:
- Demonstrates ownership of individual workstreams with minimal supervision from senior team members, with the ability to coach junior team members on the engagement
- Complete ownership for the end-to-end process of engaging stakeholders for design sessions and requirements gathering and solution build
- Produces high quality, production level code balances on-time delivery with long-term sustainability
- Proactively communicates progress and roadblocks to senior team members on an ongoing basis; proactively develops solutions to the roadblocks
- Contributes to proposal development (i.e., assistance with analysis/presentation, etc.) and proactively identifies ways to improve the proposal quality (i.e., research, package case studies, etc.)
- Assists Partners in preparation for pitches and attends as required
- Proactively identifies ways to improve proposal quality
- Supports in the development of Firm Contribution areas, such as Recruiting, Professional Development, Marketing, etc.
Analytics Engineer Qualifications:
- Bachelor’s degree from a top university, required
- 3+ years of business intelligence or data analytics experience
- Previous experience in data and analytics consulting or a client-facing role
- Strong knowledge and delivery experience with Tableau, Power BI, Qlik, or any other data visualization tools
- Working knowledge of ETL tools like Power Query, Azure Data Factory, FiveTran, Stitch, Alteryx, and languages like SQL, Python, or R
- Relevant certifications associated with business intelligence tools, and enthusiasm to learn new tools and technologies and attain certifications
- Experience in mentoring junior analysts and leading cross-functional teams to deliver data products
- Demonstrated ability to interact and work collaboratively with junior and senior team members, senior management, and other stakeholders or professionals
- Experience in independently managing deliverables with little oversight
- Effective communication skills to explain technical concepts to a non-technical audience or senior executives
- “Roll up your sleeves” mentality and willingness to complete any task if needed, no matter the role
- Ability to assist with internal firm initiatives (e.g., marketing, client pitches)
- Willingness to travel up to 20%
- Ability to work full time in an office and remote environment; physically able to sit/stand at a computer and work in front of a computer screen for significant portions of the workday
- Authorization to work in the United States
- Commitment to living MERU’s values and core characteristics
$125,000 base salary
In addition to benefits, MERU also offers an extremely competitive bonus program that is based on firm contribution efforts and performance.
Overview of MERU Service Offerings:
Performance Improvement:
Help companies identify and achieve their full potential by leveraging a value-focused approach to driving sustainable margin expansion impact. Services include MERU 360° Assessment, Transformation Plan Development, Chief Transformation Officer placement, Cash Cycle and Working Capital Optimization, and Implementation Performance Management.
Turnaround & Restructuring:
Partner with clients during uncertain times to help stabilize operations and rapidly triage the causes of financial distress, charting a path back to long-term sustainability. Services include Interim Management, Turnaround Plan Development and Execution, Liquidity Management, Stakeholder Negotiations, Strategic Alternatives Assessment, Bankruptcy, Insolvency, and Case Management.
Transaction Services:
Partner with private equity firms across the investment lifecycle, from due diligence to portfolio value creation and exit planning. Services include Due Diligence, Pre-Close Planning, Post-Close Implementation, and Exit Planning.
Data Insights:
Work with companies at all stages of their digital transformation journey to automate reporting processes, build scalable data platforms, and leverage predictive analytics to transform data from a liability into an asset. Services include Data Discovery and Analysis, Data Prep and Integration, Self-Service Analytics, Data Visualization and Reporting, Data Science and Advanced Analytics, and Strategy Enablement.
Voluntary Inclusion:
It is MERU’s policy to provide and promote equal opportunity in employment, compensation, and other terms and conditions of employment without discrimination because of race, color, sex, sexual orientation, family medical history or genetic information, political affiliation, military service, pregnancy, marital status, family status, religion, national origin, age or disability or any other non-merit based factor in accordance with all applicable laws and regulations.
Unsolicited Resumes from Third-Party Recruiters:
Please note that we do not accept unsolicited resumes from third-party recruiters unless such recruiters are engaged to provide candidates for a specified opening. Any employment agency, person, or entity that submits an unsolicited resume does so with the understanding that MERU will have the right to hire that applicant at its discretion without any fee owed to the submitting employment agency, person, or entity.
Skills Required
- Bachelor's degree from a top university
- 3+ years of business intelligence or data analytics experience
- Previous experience in data and analytics consulting or a client-facing role
- Strong knowledge and delivery experience with Tableau, Power BI, Qlik, or other data visualization tools
- Working knowledge of ETL tools like Power Query, Azure Data Factory, FiveTran, Stitch, Alteryx
- Working knowledge of languages like SQL, Python, or R
- Relevant certifications associated with business intelligence tools and enthusiasm to learn new tools and attain certifications
- Experience mentoring junior analysts and leading cross-functional teams to deliver data products
- Demonstrated ability to interact and work collaboratively with junior and senior team members and senior management
- Experience independently managing deliverables with little oversight
- Effective communication skills to explain technical concepts to non-technical audiences or senior executives
- "Roll up your sleeves" mentality and willingness to complete any task if needed
- Ability to assist with internal firm initiatives (e.g., marketing, client pitches)
- Willingness to travel up to 20%
- Ability to work full time in an office and remote environment; able to sit/stand and work in front of a computer screen for significant portions of the day
- Authorization to work in the United States
- Commitment to living MERU's values and core characteristics
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The Company
What We Do
We are MERU. An operationally focused professional services firm with a different point of view. We are a values-driven, impact-oriented team dedicated to helping companies. We work collaboratively with management and sponsors, use subject matter experts throughout the process, and structure our fees around successful outcomes. We believe our focused and agile approach, along with our experience working in complex situations, allows us to deliver superior results for our clients. VALUE PROPOSITION Experience: Senior leaders from the world’s top professional services organizations who know how to deliver successful outcomes in highly complex situations Deep bench: 150+ specialized subject matter experts with operator backgrounds who uncover hidden value and get things done Alignment: Highly flexible performance-based fee model that is aligned with successful outcomes Operator Mindset: Deep experience serving in interim executive roles and working hand-in-hand with management teams to get things done SERVICE OFFERING Transaction Services: Operational diligence Finance function assessment (processes, systems) Reporting package development (dashboards, KPIs) Initiative identification and implementation First 100-day planning Performance Improvement: 360 Assessment - EBITDA & balance sheet potential Transformation plan development Chief Transformation Officer Cash cycle and working capital optimization Implementation performance management Turnaround and Restructuring: Liquidity & liability management Diligence strategic options Turnaround plan development Capital Advisory Stakeholder comms / negotiations Chief Restructuring Officer Contingency planning Chapter 11 administration Debt restructuring Data Insights: Data Discovery and Analysis Data Strategy and Enablement Solution Development: Data integration, Data visualization, Predictive analytics (AI/ML) CLIENT BASE Middle market ($100M-$2B Revenue)
