Juha Palo
Manager, Analytics & Business Intelligence at Accountor Group- Claim this Profile
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English Full professional proficiency
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Finnish Native or bilingual proficiency
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Swedish Limited working proficiency
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Spanish Elementary proficiency
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Experience
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Accountor Group
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Finland
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IT Services and IT Consulting
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1 - 100 Employee
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Manager, Analytics & Business Intelligence
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Dec 2021 - Present
Global Business Intelligence & Analytics Lead - Azure Data Factory, Azure SQL and Power BI based solutions✔ Team Lead and Product Owner (3-person internal team + external Data Engineer team)✔ Strategy, governance, processes, development roadmap✔ Lead BI developer (more details under role Senior Business Analyst)Business Control & Insights✔ Financial and business modeling and analyses✔ Insights and development of key business performance metrics.Accountor specializes in software solutions and outsourcing of financial and HR services. The group employs approximately 2,200 experts in 6 countries. My main focus is on the largest business which provides services in 6 countries with close to 2,000 experts.Our Global Finance & Analytics team's goal is to give financial, business, BI & analytics guidance and support for all countries in our matrix organization. My position is between business, finance and IT with a focus on leading the development of data-driven decision making on all organization levels. I report to Global Finance Director of Accountor's services business.
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Senior Business Analyst
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May 2020 - Dec 2021
Our Global Finance & Analytics team's goal is to give financial, business, BI & analytics guidance and support for all countries in our matrix organization. My position is between business, finance and IT with a focus on leading the development of data-driven decision making on all organization levels. I report to Global Finance Director of Accountor's services business.Senior Business Analyst (01/2018 ->)✔ Provide insight on key business performance and operational metrics✔ Financial and business modeling and planning in transforming business✔ Global PMO finance business partner (business case process & BI reporting set-up, business case analysis for projects regarding RPA automation and various operative projects, follow-up and guidance for project and program managers) Global BI Lead and BI developer/BI architect (08/2018-) ✔ BI global lead from the start of BI initiative (2018) where I designed the database, data models and business calculations with focus on business performance analysis capabilities. BI strategy, governance and plan update in 2021. 10+ systems and 100+ tables and views in common database used by BI models.✔ Power BI global lead developer (modeling, DAX, visualization, RLS).✔ Implementing tools and reports for 300+ business, finance, sales and management users.✔ Create detailed requirements for user stories (Azure DevOps) and manage the development backlog of data engineer team's work. (Azure Data Factory, SQL)✔ Training and guiding BI key users and end-users from business and technical point of view.✔ Drive changes to global key systems and processes to improve data-driven decision making.
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Business Analyst
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Jan 2018 - May 2020
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Accountor Suomi
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Finland
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Accounting
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400 - 500 Employee
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Market Analyst
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Jan 2016 - Dec 2017
My focus was on outsourcing services business in Finland. I reported mainly to Outsourcing Cluster's Finland's Directors of Sales, Marketing and Client Care. In addition, I had recurring and ad hoc assignments for cluster's other countries, business development and country management. Global Solution Owner, CRM (interim for 2017): ✔ Development: consulting on CRM related process changes, backlog prioritization, vendor relationship, process development and minor technical development (e.g. work flows). ✔ End-user support and training (1000+ users) Key responsibilities (Market Analyst): ✔ Recurring and ad hoc reporting, analysis and presentations (sales, clients, market, competitors, growth, pricing) ✔ Data focused development of sales and client management related processes, systems & tools (e.g. creating and owning complex pricing tool for a major service, new global sales & client performance tool) ✔ CRM country main user, Finland (500+ users) ✔ Business development support (e.g. business case calculation for sales and marketing initiatives, CRM development support for various projects) ✔ Vendors (sales & client care): ensure the best sales results from outsourced sales and client management processes
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IBM
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United States
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IT Services and IT Consulting
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700 & Above Employee
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Assistant Controller
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Jan 2015 - Dec 2015
During my fixed term contract I worked in two internal finance teams. The first team was well established and the second team was in a new major account for which I was requested to support setting up the internal finance/PMO function. Being highly involved in setting up the reporting processes for the new account was my key learning experience at IBM. I reported mainly to the Partners of the two accounts with the support of PMO finance teams. Main responsibilities: ✔ Internal finance processes setup for a new large program (invoicing, reporting) ✔ Continuous forecasting, planning, month closing, reporting and analyzing of financials ✔ Reporting automation (Excel) and developing followed metrics ✔ Ad-hoc tasks for program management largely regarding profitability ✔ Working in multinational environment with internal and external stakeholders from all over the world. Keywords: financial analysis, reporting, forecasting, reporting development, PMO, Excel, VBA
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Turku School of Economics at the University of Turku
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Finland
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Higher Education
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100 - 200 Employee
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Assistant Lecturer, Investment Analysis
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Mar 2015 - May 2015
I was requested for this assignment due to my achievements on courses of Accounting & Finance department. ✔ Responsible for Excel exercises of the Investment Analysis course I was requested for this assignment due to my achievements on courses of Accounting & Finance department. ✔ Responsible for Excel exercises of the Investment Analysis course
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Nordea Markets, Corporates & Institutions
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Denmark
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Capital Markets
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700 & Above Employee
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Assistant Operations Officer
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May 2014 - Aug 2014
Fixed term assigment for summer. ✔ Accounting, confirming and settling FX and money market related global transactions ✔ Communicating with domestic and international corporate customers ✔ Following corporate customers' solvency Fixed term assigment for summer. ✔ Accounting, confirming and settling FX and money market related global transactions ✔ Communicating with domestic and international corporate customers ✔ Following corporate customers' solvency
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Lifter
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Finland
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Advertising Services
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Digital Marketing Assistant
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Jan 2014 - Apr 2014
Fixed term assignment was agreed for one client project before my assignment at Nordea Markets. ✔ Conducting, monitoring, analyzing and adjusting Google Adwords search engine marketing campaigns ✔ SEO and website enhancements ✔ Copywriting Fixed term assignment was agreed for one client project before my assignment at Nordea Markets. ✔ Conducting, monitoring, analyzing and adjusting Google Adwords search engine marketing campaigns ✔ SEO and website enhancements ✔ Copywriting
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Education
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Turku School of Economics at the University of Turku
Master of Science (MSc) in Economics and Business Administration, Accounting and Finance