Senior Finance & AI Data Analyst

In this role at Dolby, you will be combining the responsibilities of a Senior Finance & AI Data Analyst. As an analyst, you will play a crucial role as a strategic finance partner supporting revenue-generating business groups, while also spearheading AI-enabled data automation, dataset quality, and analytics innovation. Your duties will involve collaborating with Finance and business leadership, developing financial models, preparing data for AI/ML, and creating dashboards to drive actionable insights.

• *Key Responsibilities:**
• **Business Finance**
• Act as a trusted and strategic finance partner to the Entertainment Business Finance team
• Provide meaningful and actionable information to business groups and Finance leadership
• Establish effective communication channels within the finance team and with business partners to raise issues and offer insights for decision-making
• Analyze financial variances and provide concise and meaningful narratives for leadership
• Assist in developing financial models to support business decisions and explore potential opportunities
• **Data Automation & Dataset Health**
• Utilize generative AI and automation tools to expedite data cleaning, preprocessing, normalization, and enrichment across large-scale structured and unstructured datasets
• Employ GenAI-assisted techniques to identify data inconsistencies, missing values, labeling gaps, and schema issues
• Design and monitor dataset health dashboards using AI-driven signals for data drift, bias indicators, and freshness metrics
• Continuously enhance data pipelines by integrating LLMs and intelligent agents for workflow optimization and issue detection
• **AI-Ready Dataset Preparation & Quality Management**
• Prepare, curate, and document datasets for training, fine-tuning, and evaluating AI and machine learning models
• Apply generative AI for data summarization, feature extraction, metadata generation, and dataset documentation
• Maintain high standards for data quality, consistency, traceability, and version control throughout the AI lifecycle
• Collaborate with ML engineers and data scientists to ensure datasets meet evolving model performance and scalability requirements
• **Validation, Auditing & Anomaly Detection**
• Validate and audit datasets to ensure consistency, accuracy, and compliance with standards
• Use AI-driven techniques for anomaly detection, outlier identification, and data drift monitoring
• Support model debugging by identifying data-related issues impacting ML performance
• Contribute to enhancing data governance and MLOps best practices
• **Cross-Functional Collaboration**
• Work closely with machine learning, data engineering, product, and content teams across the Entertainment Group
• Translate creative and business requirements into AI-ready data specifications and quality benchmarks
• Communicate findings, risks, and recommendations clearly to technical and non-technical stakeholders
• Stay updated on emerging generative AI tools and techniques and assess their relevance to Dolbys data and AI workflows
• *Required Qualifications:**
• Bachelors degree in Finance, Economics, Data Science, Engineering, Computer Science, or a related field
• 3+ years of experience in finance, FP&A, data analytics, or AI/ML data operations
• Proficiency in Excel, PowerPoint, SQL, and Python
• Experience in data cleaning, preprocessing, validation, and visualization
• Strong analytical problem-solving skills with attention to detail
• Ability to communicate insights to both technical and non-technical audiences

In this role, you will have the opportunity to work on cutting-edge AI initiatives that are shaping the future of entertainment. You will collaborate with world-class engineers, researchers, and creatives in a culture that values innovation, inclusion, and technical excellence. Dolby offers competitive compensation, benefits, and career growth opportunities. In this role at Dolby, you will be combining the responsibilities of a Senior Finance & AI Data Analyst. As an analyst, you will play a crucial role as a strategic finance partner supporting revenue-generating business groups, while also spearheading AI-enabled data automation, dataset quality, and analytics innovation. Your duties will involve collaborating with Finance and business leadership, developing financial models, preparing data for AI/ML, and creating dashboards to drive actionable insights.

• *Key Responsibilities:**
• **Business Finance**
• Act as a trusted and strategic finance partner to the Entertainment Business Finance team
• Provide meaningful and actionable information to business groups and Finance leadership
• Establish effective communication channels within the finance team and with business partners to raise issues and offer insights for decision-making
• Analyze financial variances and provide concise and meaningful narratives for leadership
• Assist in developing