Power BI Data Analyst

Sheffield
1 month ago
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Your new role

As a Power BI / Data Analyst you will help deliver the strategic vision with its subsidiaries. The role is to provide insight and data to our internal companies, whether this be high-level interactive performance indicators and dashboards, or detailed data extracts using reports and Power BI. Your expertise will be invaluable to deliver new ways of accessing our data, understanding trends and visual reporting to better inform all levels of our people.

Responsibilities

Be proactive in identifying issues and the action of change.

Lead in the development of new Power BI reports and the improvement of existing reports, applying the latest methods and best practices.

Manage workspaces and settings within the Power BI Service.

Share specialist knowledge on Power BI and related topics with members of the IT team.

Ensure the correct security permissions are assigned to authorised users and are regularly reviewed.

Work with users at all levels within the organisation, to gather, understand and document reporting requirements.

Provide training, documentation and support to relevant departments when delivering solutions.

Assist with the development and maintenance of simple apps and workflows within the Power Platform and show a willingness to advance this knowledge over time.

Articulate the capabilities and limitations of Power BI clearly to personnel at all levels of the organisation.

Work with data owners to investigate data accuracy and validity in various data-related projects.

Work with teams across the organisation to assist in data collection and analysis, in line with relevant legislation such as GDPR.

Evaluate user needs and system functionality for reporting purposes.

Experience needed

Proven track record of consolidating data from multiple sources, into a single or a group of reports.

Ability to 'tell a story' with one or multiple sets of data, and presenting this appropriately for the intended audience.

Ability to develop Power BI reports/dashboards and publish these in Power BI Service.

Good understanding of Power App (model-driven and canvas), PowerFX and Power Automate development.

Ability to provide support and documentation to end users.

An understanding of creating reports from Dataverse, with particular emphasis on D365 data.

Experience administering reports and workspaces in Power BI Service.

Experience using SQL, Power Query and Data Analysis Expression (DAX).

Proven track record in delivering application-based reporting solutions (dashboards).

Experience in using Azure DevOps, JIRA or similar tools.

Be passionate about Business Intelligence and Data and how this can add value

Have demonstratable expertise in data handling and how this can add value

Understanding the data warehouse lifecycle such as ETL

Demonstrate experience in managing and reporting from large and small data sets

Have good interpersonal skills and ability to work effectively in a team

The ability to design data structures to support reporting needs

Be able to explain complex information to lay audiences

Desirable

Microsoft Certified: Power BI Data Analyst Associate (PL-300)

Experienced working with commercial data.

Experience in running successful data visualisation projects.

Knowledge of Microsoft Fabric or data warehousing.

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