Director - Business Intelligence and Analytics

Collin College is seeking a Director of Business Intelligence and Analytics to provide leadership for the college’s finance systems and data analysis functions. This role involves serving as a strategic partner across various departments to ensure systems and data support institutional priorities and enhance decision-making.

Responsibilities:

• Provide functional leadership for Workday including Business Services, Human Resources, and Procurement including budgeting, reporting, business intelligence, and forecasting systems
• Translate business, finance, payroll, human resources, and reporting needs into system requirements and practical technology solutions
• Lead or coordinate system implementations, configuration changes, data conversions, testing, deployment, and post-implementation support
• Partner with Information Technology to improve workflows, automation, integrations, system functionality, data reliability and consistency, and issue resolution
• Develop reliable reports, dashboards, forecasts, data models, and analytical tools to support budgeting, planning, operations, and institutional decision-making
• Develop and maintain financial, staffing, revenue, expenses, and operational forecasts
• Create projections to evaluate the impact of enrollment, staffing, funding, compensation, benefits, and cost changes
• Support budget development and long-range planning through trend analysis, documented assumptions, and variance review
• Partner with Business Services, Human Resources, Procurement, and Institutional Research to align data used for planning, forecasting, and reporting
• Support data governance, dashboards, accreditation, strategic planning, and institutional reporting by ensuring that data is accurate, consistent, reliable, and documented
• Perform other duties as assigned
• Perform all duties and maintain all standards in accordance with college policies, procedures, and Core Values

Requirements:

• Bachelor's degree in Data Science, Business Analytics, Finance, Accounting, Human Resources, Higher Education Administration, or related fields
• Five years of related experience with enterprise systems, reporting, forecasting, budgeting, data analysis, business intelligence, or data engineering
• Experience supporting enterprise system projects, process improvements, reporting initiatives, forecasting, analytics, or multi-department data projects
• Knowledge of Workday, payroll, HRIS, finance systems, reporting tools, forecasting, business intelligence, and data-management practices
• Ability to translate business needs into system requirements, workflows, reports, dashboards, forecasts, and technical solutions
• Understanding of finance, payroll, human resources, budgeting, procurement, enrollment, institutional research, and information technology functions
• Ability to analyze, reconcile, and explain complex data from multiple enterprise systems
• Strong forecasting, finance modeling, troubleshooting, problem-solving, and analytical skills
• Ability to communicate technical information, reporting methods, data findings, and forecast assumptions to technical and nontechnical audiences
• Ability to manage projects, protect confidential information, build collaborative relationships, and support the effective use of enterprise technology
• Ability to collaborate well across various departments
• Master's degree in Data Science, Business Analytics, Finance, Accounting, Human Resources, Higher Education Administration, or related fields
• Experience with Workday Finance and Workday HCM including adaptive planning reporting and analytics
• Prior experience with SQL, data warehousing concepts and visualization tools (e.g., Tableau, Power BI) used to overlay or ingest Workday data
• Experience in higher education, government, or another public sector organization