Business Intelligence Analyst

Poole
1 year ago
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Business Intelligence Analyst

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Business Intelligence Analyst

Business Intelligence Analyst

Our client provides, innovative fully managed solutions within the automotive fleet management sector. As a Business Intelligence Analyst, you’ll be expanding the team of BI specialist, working to build data visualisations, tools and dashboards to deliver insights to internal and external customers and our commercial teams that unlock value. Supporting the business in driving activity insight and customer intelligence through BI identifying emerging issues and recommending suggestions that enhance performance.

The Business Intelligence Analyst will be responsible for all internal, customer and supplier data and the visualisation of activity insights leveraging the group’s inhouse systems and 3rd party data sources.

Key Responsibilities:

Lead design, build and deployment of BI solutions (e.g. reporting tools)

Translate business needs to technical specifications

Maintain and support data analytics platforms

Create and enforce policies for effective data management

Formulate techniques for quality data collection to ensure adequacy, accuracy and legitimacy of data

Conduct unit testing and troubleshooting

Evaluate and improve BI systems

Collaborate with teams to integrate systems

Develop and execute database queries and conduct analyses

Create visualizations and reports for requested projects

Develop and update technical documentation

Identify and analyse data to deliver trends and recommend suggestions to improve performance

Deliver business insight reports and data extraction when needed

Challenge where data may compromise the integrity of the group’s systems

Follow the group’s IT policies to ensure digital databases and archives are protected from security breaches and data losses

Liaise with both internal and external stakeholders

Key Skills and Technical Expertise required:

5 years’ experience in a BI role or relevant background.

Strong SQL skills for the analysis and creation of SQL statements

A proven track record in the design and development of BI databases and tools including data visualisations, reports and dashboards

Experience in presenting analysis and visualisations in a clear way to communicate complex messages to technical and nontechnical audiences

Skilled in building and running reports / dashboards in BI, excel and at least one programming language to deliver analytical work

Experience of building, integrating and solutioning with PowerApps

Strong working knowledge of common IT software (Power BI, Word, Excel, E Mail, Visio, Internet)

Familiarity with modern database and information system technologies, especially T-SQL databases

Demonstrate ability to motivate and communicate with others at all levels and ability to use these relationships to deliver service improvements.

Ability to work under pressure and follow company policies and procedures

Excellent organisational skills

Able to interpret MI/BI and develop strategy and make recommendations

Ability to work accurately at speed

Analytical and problem solving oriented

A good understanding of data administration and management functions (collection, analysis, distribution etc.)

This is an excellent opportunity to join at a period of extensive growth within a forward-thinking organisation.

Excellent benefits

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