The Role
The Senior Associate, Data & Analytics role involves data analysis, developing data-driven solutions, maintaining data pipelines, and collaborating with stakeholders to support business initiatives.
Summary Generated by Built In
At Portage Point Partners (Portage Point), you are not a cog in a legacy machine, you are shaping strategy, influencing outcomes and being rewarded for driving impact. Backed by New Mountain Capital, Portage Point is recognized for accelerated growth and is consistently featured in rankings from Inc.5000, The Financial Times and Consulting Magazine. This recognition is a testament to our focus on excellence, intensity and pace and ability to attract blue chip talent committed to delivering best-in-class outcomes. Our cross-functional platform spans the full business lifecycle and offers middle market clients integrated solutions across Transaction Advisory Services (TAS), Transaction Execution Services (TES), Office of the CFO (OCFO), Valuations (VAL), Performance Improvement (PI), Interim Management (IM), Investment Banking (IB) and Turnaround & Restructuring Services (TRS).
The Delivery Enablement (DE) team powers Portage Point’s growth as a scalable, high-quality operational backbone. Including Commercial Strategy, Data Analytics, Delivery Excellence, Finance & Accounting, Human Resources, Marketing, Operations and Talent Acquisition, the DE team drives excellence, efficiency and automation across every practice line.
The Senior Associate, Data Analytics (DA) offers a unique opportunity to work on a team that provides transformative insights and solutions for internal and external clients across the business lifecycle. The DA team supports clients through sophisticated data strategies, advanced analytics and actionable intelligence to drive decision-making and operational excellence. This Senior Associate, DA will report to the Vice President of DA and focus on developing internal data-driven solutions, supporting critical initiatives, maintaining cloud data warehouses, creating data visualizations and advancing automation efforts across practice lines. This Senior Associate, DA will build technical and business acumen and work closely with senior leaders while gaining exposure to diverse projects and industries. If you thrive in a high-performance culture and want to help build the future of a rapidly growing consultancy, this is the right role for you.
Responsibilities
- Create high-impact presentations and deliverables for internal and client facing stakeholders (management team, Board of Directors, Practice Line Leaders, investors, etc.)
- Conduct data analyses, including descriptive, predictive and prescriptive analytics, to uncover insights and drive strategic recommendations for internal and client facing stakeholders
- Collaborate with senior personnel at Portage Point to deliver tailored data and analytics solutions that address complex business challenges across various client engagements
- Assist in evaluating and improving client’s data infrastructure, governance and analytics capabilities to enhance operational efficiency and decision-making
- Develop and maintain internal data pipelines, models and dashboards using SQL, Python and Power BI to support key decision-making processes
- Maintain Power Automate and Power Apps driven solutions, recommend and implement necessary changes
- Support internal financial and operational model development, including dynamic KPI dashboards and advanced reporting tools
- Conduct due diligence and market research to support business development and client engagement
- Support internal trainings and best practice sharing
- Support business development and client relationship efforts
- Support talent acquisition and firm-building initiatives
- Contribute to a high-performing, inclusive and values-driven culture
Qualifications
- Bachelor’s degree in data analytics, computer science, information systems, statistics, mathematics or other STEM related field from a top undergraduate program
- Located or willing to relocate to Chicago, Dallas or New York
- Invested in a team-based culture and motivated to collaborate in office four days per week
- Two plus years of experience in data analytics, consulting or a related field with a proven ability to develop and implement data-driven solutions
- Proficiency in SQL and Power BI, with demonstrated ability to create and maintain robust data models and visualizations
- Experience in Power Apps and Power Automate with the ability to create and maintain simple workflows and applications
- Python proficiency strongly preferred but not required
- Strong analytical skills, including experience with data cleaning, transformation and analysis
- Superior written and verbal communication skills, including executive-ready presentation and reporting skills
- Proven ability to thrive in lean, fast-moving teams
- High attention to detail, responsiveness and ownership mindset
- Track record of success in high-pressure, client-facing environments
Top Skills
Power Apps
Power Automate
Power BI
Python
SQL
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The Company
What We Do
Portage Point is an elite boutique business advisory, interim management, investment banking and financial services firm that partners with companies and their stakeholders during periods of growth, complexity, transition and underperformance. We are an operationally oriented team encompassing a broad range of expertise built to maximize value and align stakeholder interests while guiding businesses through the most urgent and complex challenges ranging from performance improvement to accelerated transformation to complex financial restructuring
