Senior Business Intelligence Analyst

SF Technology Solutions
Warrington
6 months ago
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We’re looking for a hands-on Business Intelligence Analyst to join the BI & Analytics team at a fast growing team going through an exciting data transformation phase. This role is about more than building dashboards – we need someone who can work end-to-end with data, from extraction through to modelling, optimisation and delivering meaningful insights to the business.


What you’ll be doing

  • Designing and delivering Power BI dashboards that are accurate, intuitive and widely adopted across the business.
  • Building and maintaining semantic models (star schema, relationships, hierarchies) to create a single source of truth.
  • Ability to read SQL Code
  • Implementing Row-Level Security (RLS) and governance controls to ensure the right people see the right data.
  • Using Power Query (M language) and DAX for advanced transformations and calculations.
  • Applying incremental refresh and other optimisation techniques to improve dataset performance.
  • Partnering with stakeholders across Finance, Operations and Commercial teams to gather requirements and turn them into actionable insight.
  • Communicating the “why” behind the data, not just the numbers.


What we’re looking for

  • Proven experience as a BI Analyst / Power BI Developer in a commercial environment.
  • Strong technical skills in Power BI (DAX, Power Query, RLS, semantic modelling).
  • Ability to read and understand SQL
  • Strong stakeholder engagement – able to explain technical concepts to non-technical audiences.
  • Comfortable working in a fast-paced, regulated environment where accuracy and governance are critical.

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