Mission
The data functional analyst plays a key role in transforming business needs into valuable data-driven solutions. Acting as a bridge between business stakeholders and technical teams, he/she helps shape the data platform capability that enable the company to make informed decisions.
The data functional analyst contributes to the design and evolution of our data platform, ensuring that business requirements are translated into robust, scalable and high-quality data products. As our data landscape continues to evolve, he/she may have to opportunity to participate in the adoption of modern data technologies and cloud-enabled architectures.
Responsibilities
- Understand and support business needs
- Collaborate with Business data analyst, business experts and project stakeholders to understand reporting, analytics and data requirements.
- Support the refinement and formalisation of business needs, ensuring requirements are clearly documented, consistent and actionable.
- Ensure traceability between business requirements, business rules and delivered data solutions.
- Translate business needs into data solutions
- Produce and maintain functional analyses, business rules and detailed specifications.
- Collaborate closely with Business data analyst, Business Process Analysts, Data Engineers, IT Analysts and project teams.
- Prototype and validate business rules with stakeholders.
- Ensure traceability between business requirements, source systems and delivered solutions.
- Design data models and information flows
- Contribute to the functional design of enterprise data warehouse, datamart and analytical data models.
- Define source-to-target mappings and integration logic.
- Participate in the design of scalable data flows and modern data architectures supporting future business needs.
- Ensure data quality and solution reliability
- Analyse and profile operational data sources.
- Identify data quality issues and contribute to their resolution.
- Validate the consistency and integrity of business rules throughout the delivery lifecycle.
- Ensure that delivered solutions meet both business expectations and quality standards.
- Support solution validation
- Define and execute functional tests to validate implemented solutions.
- Assist in defining business-oriented access rights and security requirements.
- Contribute to project success
- Assess impacts, risks, priorities and dependencies related to ongoing initiatives.
- Provide functional expertise and recommendations to project managers and delivery leads.
- Contribute to estimating effort, defining scope and identifying mitigation actions when required.
- Promote continuous improvement in data governance, delivery practices and stakeholder collaboration.
- Functional Design Documents (FDD)
- Source-to-Target Mappings (FMT)
- Logical Data Models
- Test Plans, Test Evidence and Issue Logs
Profile
- Strong analytical mindset and ability to understand complex business processes.
- Experience in functional analysis within Data, Business Intelligence or Analytics environments.
- Ability to bridge business and technical stakeholders.
- Experience working with reporting, data warehousing and analytical solutions.
- Familiarity with data modelling concepts (dimensional modelling, star schema, data integration flows).
- Interest in modern data platforms, cloud technologies and evolving analytics ecosystems is an advantage
- Excellent communication and stakeholder management skills.
- Autonomous, proactive and solution-oriented.
- Candidate holds a Master Degree
- During an interview the candidate can demonstrate his ability to conceptualize processes and data domain
- During an interview the candidate can demonstrate his ability to present one's ideas in a clear and structured way
- Fluent FR or NL
- Proven experience as Business Intelligence/Data analytics Analyst or Business Intelligence/Data Analytics Consultant
- Proven Experience Erwin Data modelling tool
- Proven experience in BI or Analytics domain
- Proven experience in Logistic reporting on SAP S/4HANA
- Proven Experience with business requirements gathering
- Proven experience with Power BI
- Proven experience with SAS Enterprise Guide (EG)
- Proven experience with SAS Visual Analytics (SAS VA)
- The consultant demonstrates experience as a BI Functional Analyst in at least two distinct business sectors, evidencing the ability to adapt to different business contexts
- Certification or proven experience as Project Manager (should have)
- Proven experience in a GRD (should have)
- Proven experience in Utilities (should have)
- Proven Experience with Exadata (should have)
- Proven Experience with SAS Data Integration (should have)
Context
Within the Digital Business Solutions (DBS) department, the Data Management & Analytics service is developing and maintaining the data platform aimed at producing value-added information to support decision-making, business steering and performance management, as well as feeding into official reporting.
- Hybrid Homeworking (3 days on-site minimum)