CONTRACT DURATION: 19/10/2026 - 19/10/2027+WITH POSSIBLE OF EXTENSION
JOB DESCRIPTION:
FUNCTIONAL ANALYST DATA & ANALYTICS:
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.
KEY DELIVERABLES:
- 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.
SKILLS:
- 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
- Proven experience in a GRD
- Proven experience in Utilities
- Proven Experience with Exadata
- Proven Experience with SAS Data Integration