IT Data Analyst Intern

About Us

Ascend is the largest credit union in Middle Tennessee and one of the largest credit unions in the United States, with over $4 billion in assets. With an occupation-based field of membership, Ascend is focused on the expansion and diversification of the select employee groups it serves, which creates greater security for the credit union and its member-owners. Approximately 650 employees serve more than 260,000 members from 28 Middle Tennessee branch locations, Regional Operations Center, Teller Center and Corporate Headquarters. Ascend recognizes that its employees are critical to the credit union’s sustained success and future growth. Our employees are the face of the credit union and their personal successes fuel the success of the team. Through collaboration between employees, management, our membership and our Board, we fuel an engine that propels the credit union forward.

What We Offer

Thank you for your interest in a career with Ascend Federal Credit Union! Being employed by Ascend is vastly different than just holding a job. The credit union prides itself on providing employees rewarding career opportunities, competitive benefits and a unique work culture. The credit union’s commitment to its employees is fostered by its commitment to the member-owners, ensuring dedicated and engaged employees to serve the membership. Ascend’s vision to be the most loved credit union in our market by employees and members alike has earned the credit union distinctions including Federal Credit Union of the Year (NAFCU, 2015), Best Credit Union to Work For (2016-2023) and Training APEX Awards (2015-2024).

Overview

Candidates need to be able to demonstrate understanding & competency in statistics & analytics. Candidates need also be highly proficient in excel and other office software. Experience with PowerBI is not required but is highly preferred. This position will have a large amount of autonomy, but will require attention to detail, focus, and the ability to research.

Responsibilities

• Learn to develop queries using report-building software and AFCU’s data warehouse.
• Design dashboards for management, using PowerBI as well as other data-visualization software.
• Develop models for understanding member-behavior and deploy such models to assist with target-marketing campaigns.
• Develop data models/visualizations/reports that provide insight to support operations & finance functions.
• Demonstrate understanding & competency in statistics & analytics.
• Perform other duties as required or assigned.
• Read all internal publications including HUB and Possibilities.

Qualifications

• Enrolled in Junior or Senior year of college preferred
• Strong experience in data design and analysis - relational, object and document models. Strong experience utilizing SQL.
• Experience with building data pipelines to cleanse and augment data sets using programming languages/frameworks e.g., Python, R, Azure tools.
• Experience with combining data sets from files, APIs, applications, public information to build business insights.
• Ability to work with data to build reports and visualizations using Power BI or similar.
• Good working knowledge of MS Word, Excel & PowerPoint.
• Good relationship management & interpersonal skills.
• Outside the box thinking to research and identify new ways of implementing solutions.
• Adequate technical, organizational and process skills.
• Good verbal and written communications skills, ability to document/present to various levels or management.
• Results orientation with attention to detail and quality of deliverables.
• Regular and reliable attendance is required.

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Ascend Federal Credit Union is an Equal Opportunity Employer.