Business Intelligence Data Analyst

Foresters Financial
Bromley
2 weeks ago
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As our Business Intelligence Data Analyst for a 12 month Fixed Term Project you will be responsible for designing and developing reports and dashboards using Power BI to support customer analysis, sales reporting, and product analysis for clients across all departments. 

Reporting to the Business Solutions and Support Manager, you will be part of a team championing the effective use of BI throughout the organisation. This also involves preparing communications and presentations, assisting the business in obtaining solutions to complex problems and communicating issues adversely impacting the business to management.

Your day to day will include:

  • Developing a thorough understanding of business objectives and issues, interpret business needs into data and analytical requirements, and deliver valuable insights to internal customers to support operational needs and strategic planning
  • Supporting the planning, identification, development and implementation of design and/or changes to key reports and ad hoc requests
  • Designing and developing reports and dashboards using Power BI to support customer analysis, sales reporting, and product analysis for clients across all Foresters stakeholders
  • Working collaboratively to drive business value out of the Data Warehouse and other data sources
  • Leading, collecting and analysing business requirements for small to medium sized development efforts (both short and long-term solutions). Recommending and delivering solutions.
  • Anticipating future data needs and working with other teams to ensure we have access to required data to support business needs including identification and specification of changes to the Data Warehouse
  • Promoting and fostering the adoption of business intelligence as a driver for effective decision-making
  • Ensuring an extremely high level of accuracy and quality of all management reports
  • Raising project risks, issues and dependencies to appropriate business owners and PMO offering mitigating actions and taking ownership of individual items where appropriate.


What we require

  • Experience is an Business Intelligence/analytical and /or data  role
  • Strong experience in Power BI would be desirable
  • Extensive experience using SQL
  • Advanced MS Excel
  • Strong written and verbal communication skills with an ability to convey technical information to non technical audiences
  • Ability to work autonomously and self motivate
  • Excellent organisational and project management skills to meet deadlines and handle changing priorities
  • Financial Services, Insurance and/or Savings & Investments experience beneficial.


What we offer you

  • Up to £55,000
  • Company Bonus up to 7% dependant on your performance and company performance (where applicable)
  • 25 days holiday plus bank holidays rising to 28 days.
  • Life Assurance (4x pensionable earnings)
  • Contributory Pension scheme (company contribute up to 10%)
  • Season Ticket Loan
  • 1 days paid charitable work day
  • Employee Assistance Programme

Working hours are 40 hours a week Monday to Friday. Start times can vary from 7.30am to 9.30am. After a successful training period there is flexibility to work from home up to 3 days a week.


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