Analytics & BI Lead

Cedar; Greater London; On-site; GBP 65,000 - 95,000; Full time

Job summary

Cedar is seeking an Analytics & BI Lead to shape and mature its analytics capability. This role goes beyond dashboards and requires challenging current approaches and embedding best practices in data usage for better decision making.

You will combine hands-on analytics with commercial insight, engaging senior stakeholders and translating requirements into effective analytical solutions while guiding the analytics roadmap for the organisation.

Qualifications

• Significant analytics/BI experience required.
• Deep hands-on Power BI expertise.
• Strong SQL and data analysis capabilities.

Responsibilities

• Take ownership of analytics and BI approach.
• Review reporting and identify opportunities for improvement.
• Define and embed best practices across analytics, reporting, dashboards and data visualization.
• Partner with stakeholders to translate business challenges into analytical solutions.
• Develop and improve KPI frameworks to measure what matters.
• Build insightful Power BI dashboards and reporting solutions.
• Engage in data interrogation using SQL and other tools.
• Improve governance and consistency across reporting and analytics.
• Promote data-driven decision making within the business.
• Provide recommendations and challenge existing reporting requests.
• Remain hands-on while shaping longer-term analytics direction.

Skills

Power BI

SQL

Stakeholder management

Analytical thinking

Data visualization

Job description

Cedar are partnering with an established organisation looking to appoint an Analytics & BI Lead to play a key role in shaping and developing its analytics capability.

This is not simply a reporting or dashboard development position. We are looking for a genuine analytics specialist who can challenge existing approaches, introduce best practice and help define how data and analytics should be used to support better decision making.

The successful candidate will combine strong hands on technical capability with the confidence and commercial awareness to engage senior stakeholders, challenge requirements and ensure analytics delivers meaningful insight rather than simply producing more reports.

Key Responsibilities

You will:

• Take ownership of the approach to analytics and business intelligence
• Review existing reporting and identify opportunities to improve how data and insight are used
• Define and embed best practice across analytics, reporting, dashboards and data visualisation
• Partner with stakeholders to understand business challenges and translate them into effective analytical solutions
• Develop and improve KPI frameworks, helping ensure the organisation is measuring what matters
• Build insightful Power BI dashboards and reporting solutions
• Use SQL and other analytical tools to interrogate and analyse data
• Improve consistency, quality and governance across reporting and analytics
• Establish scalable standards and processes as the analytics capability develops
• Promote greater use of data and insight in business decision making
• Provide informed recommendations and challenge rather than simply responding to reporting requests
• Remain hands on technically while helping shape the longer term direction of analytics

About You

We are looking for someone with deep, hands on analytics and BI experience.

You will ideally have:

• Significant experience within Analytics, Business Intelligence or a closely related discipline
• Strong hands on Power BI expertise
• Strong SQL and data analysis capability
• Experience developing dashboards, reporting solutions and data visualisations
• Experience defining KPIs and improving reporting frameworks
• Evidence of establishing analytics standards, processes or best practice
• Experience improving, developing or building an analytics capability
• The ability to translate complex data into clear and commercially relevant insight
• Strong stakeholder management and communication skills
• The confidence to challenge established approaches and recommend better ways of working
• A proactive mindset and the ability to take ownership with limited direction