Data analyst ATS keywords that prove you own dashboards and metric truth

Example output

Illustrative examples only — not real candidate achievements or testimonials.

• BI screeners: Looker explores · governed looks · freshness SLA · row-level access.

  Looker · dashboard ops

• Reporting screeners: Tableau extracts · scheduled refresh · executive pack · annotated variance.

  Tableau · exec reporting

• Warehouse screeners: Snowflake marts · certified views · dbt tests · finance close join keys.

  Snowflake · metric truth

• Request triage screeners: Mode reports · saved SQL templates · Slack intake · repeat-ask reduction.

  Mode · ticket triage

• Spreadsheet screeners: Excel reconciliation · pivot controls · close checklist · source-of-truth notes.

  Excel · close support

• Governance screeners: metric dictionary · owner field · deprecated alias · change log.

  dbt · definitions

• Access screeners: Google Sheets controlled share · audit trail · named ranges for GTM inputs.

  Google Sheets · controlled inputs

Dashboard ownership and freshness SLAs

Parsers and sourcers reward language about who keeps Looker, Tableau, or Mode boards trustworthy. Name refresh cadence, row-level access, and the stakeholders who depend on the board each Monday.

Skip vague "built dashboards." Prefer "owned the weekly ops Looker suite with a documented freshness SLA and self-serve filters for GTM." Hiring managers also scan for downtime communication — who got paged when an extract failed, and how fast the board recovered.

If you inherited a messy folder of unowned workbooks, say that you retired duplicates and named an owner field. That operational story is more credible than listing every chart type you can draw.

Metric dictionaries and finance-close support

Data Analyst postings often screen for metric governance: definitions agreed with finance, dbt-tested marts, and close calendars. Keywords that help when true include metric dictionary, variance recon, close checklist, and certified dataset.

If you only queried ad hoc, do not claim dictionary ownership. HireConcierge will align phrasing to a posting from experience you provide — it will not invent a certified mart you never maintained.

Close support language should name the cadence (weekly flash, monthly close) and the join keys finance trusts. "Helped finance" without a deliverable reads as filler on analyst screens.

Stakeholder ticket triage into reusable SQL

BI teams live in Slack and Jira. Verbs that belong here: triage, templatize, publish self-serve SQL, retire duplicate extracts, and cut repeat asks.

Place those terms inside bullets with a count of tickets or hours saved, and keep a short Skills line for Looker, Tableau, Excel, SQL, Snowflake or BigQuery.

Strong analyst resumes also show intake rules — which requests become a one-off, which become a governed explore, and which get declined because the metric is undefined. That triage judgment is what separates a report factory from a BI partner.

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