At First PREMIER Bank and PREMIER Bankcard, we’ve created a culture that emphasizes personal success, respect, health, and wellness, fun and giving back. This is an environment where you will be rewarded, valued, and celebrated for your hard work.

We offer a robust and expanded package of health benefits, incentives, paid time off and growth and career advancement opportunities. We celebrate our employees and show our appreciation with private concerts, outdoor bashes, cash and car giveaways and more! See some of our epic celebrations and employee recognitions.

Considered one of the nation’s strongest financial organizations, we’ve achieved our success by embodying the views and values of The PREMIER Way. From our CEOs to the newest hires, we all follow these shared views and values to guide us on how to treat our customers, co-workers and communities. The PREMIER Way also serves as a roadmap on how to be successful inside and outside of the workplace. We believe in investing in our employees, their families and our communities.

Job Description:

Location: Sioux Falls, SD
Shift: 8:00am-5:00pm, Monday-Friday
Job Status: Full-Time
Company: PREMIER Bankcard 

About the Role
This position combines the fields of data science and finance to understand the impact of different decisions.  We are looking for a candidate with proven ability to analyze, interpret, and explain findings to executive management effectively while working collaboratively.  The candidate should be proficient in statistical and financial modeling techniques.  We work in Snowflake (SQL), Power BI, Excel’s Power Query, and Office Connect.  More advanced modeling can be done in Excel, Posit, R, or Python, as needed.  The candidate should be comfortable learning new tools and experimenting with a variety of approaches.

Job Duties and Responsibilities 

• Prepare accurate and timely financial reports for business partners and Finance leadership.
• Gather and analyze financial data to identify trends, variances, and insights.
• Develop presentations to communicate financial insights.
• Create and maintain financial modeling and forecasting to predict future performance.
• Partner with cross-functional teams on projects and initiatives and determine how business activities and decisions impact financial performance.
• Provide business administration services, maintenance, reconciliation and quality assurance, to ensure smooth execution of operational objectives.
• Document information into a data management system.
• Provides guidance to more junior colleagues and recommendations within their core area of responsibility.

Skills and Qualifications

• Finance and Accounting knowledge includes understanding of primary financial statements and generally accepted accounting principles.
• Advanced attention to detail to ensure accurate reporting with clear and consistent formatting.
• Demonstrate analytical and problem-solving skills to overcome obstacles and develop solutions.
• Proficiency in financial and data software, report writing, and automation and an ability to learn new tools.
• Develop business cases, advanced analysis, and work with others to establish consistency within processes.
• Act as a resource for training and provide guidance to other analysts.
• Bachelor’s degree in finance, Economics, Math, Data Science, Business Analytics, or related field.
• 5-8 Years of work experience, in a Business-Related Field such as Finance, Analytics, or Economics, preferred.

Competitive Benefits Package 

• Full medical benefits when working 20+ hours per week
• Traditional and High Deductible health plan options available
• FREE dental and vision coverage
• Generous Paid Time Off plans
• 401(k) – dollar-for-dollar match up to 5% of total compensation
• Special discounts and offers for events at the Denny Sanford PREMIER Center
• PREMIER Wellness Program
• Paid Community Volunteer Hours – PREMIER averages 30,000 hours per year
• Fun Employee Parties

Our Culture 

• Emphasis on personal success, respect, health, wellness, fun and giving back
• Employees are rewarded, valued, and celebrated for hard work
• Various Career advancement opportunities and growth
• Appreciation is shown through concerts, outdoor bashes, cash, car giveaways and more