About this role
Grant Thornton is seeking Data Analyst, Data Migration Senior Associate to join the team in Downers Grove, IL.
We are seeking a highly analytical and detail-oriented Data Analyst with extensive data migration experience to support enterprise transformation initiatives, including ERP implementations and system modernization programs.
The Data Analyst supports the end-to-end migration lifecycle, helping ensure business-critical data is accurate, complete, compliant, and ready for operational use. This role serves as a key liaison among business stakeholders, functional teams, technical resources, and data migration consultants.
Key Responsibilities
Data Analysis and Data Quality
• Analyze source-system data to identify completeness, accuracy, consistency, duplication, and missing-value issues. • Define and execute data cleansing, remediation, and enrichment activities before migration. • Develop and maintain data-quality metrics and validation reports.
Data Mapping and Transformation
• Develop and maintain source-to-target mapping specifications for master, transactional, and reference data. • Define business rules, transformation logic, and data-conversion requirements. • Partner with business subject matter experts to validate field definitions and update mapping specifications as business processes evolve.
Data Migration Execution
• Support migration activities for ERP, financial, operational, and reporting systems. • Review migration files and templates for load readiness. • Collaborate with technical teams to troubleshoot data-conversion issues and load failures. • Participate in mock loads, test migrations, cutover planning, and production deployments.
Reconciliation and Testing
• Validate migrated data through source-to-target reconciliation, System Integration Testing, User Acceptance Testing, and post-production review. • Investigate reconciliation discrepancies and identify the root causes of migration defects. • Develop reconciliation reports and controls to support business review and sign-off.
Stakeholder Collaboration
• Coordinate migration activities across business owners, functional consultants, developers, project managers, and data migration consultants. • Facilitate data-discovery workshops and requirements-gathering sessions. • Communicate migration risks, issues, and dependencies to project leadership. • Recommend improvements to data-quality controls, governance practices, and migration procedures.
Required Qualifications
• Bachelor’s degree in Information Systems, Computer Science, Data Analytics, Finance, Accounting, Business, or a related field. • Five or more years of experience as a Data Analyst, Business Analyst, or Data Migration Analyst, including at least three years supporting large-scale data migration projects. • Strong knowledge of data mapping, transformation, reconciliation, and validation methodologies. • Advanced SQL skills with the ability to analyze and manipulate large datasets. • Experience working with SAP S/4HANA, Oracle, Dayshape, Fieldglass, Microsoft Dynamics, or comparable platforms. • Proficiency with Excel, Power BI, Tableau, or comparable reporting tools. • Excellent analytical, problem-solving, and communication skills.
Preferred Qualifications
• Experience supporting SAP S/4HANA Public Cloud data migration projects. • Knowledge of financial, billing, project accounting, customer, vendor, and master data structures. • Experience with ETL and data-integration tools. • Familiarity with Snowflake, Azure Data Factory, Informatica, SAP Migration Cockpit, or comparable technologies. • Understanding of data governance, controls, and audit requirements. • PMP, CBAP, SAP, or data-management certification preferred.
The base salary range for this position is between $72,000 and $95,000. Placement within the pay range is at Grant Thornton’s discretion, and it is based on multiple factors, including but not limited to, job-related knowledge/skills, experience, business needs, progression within the role, geographic location, and internal equity. At Grant Thornton, compensation decisions are dependent upon the facts and circumstances of each position and candidate.