BI Analyst

EMED Group; Shrewsbury; Remote; GBP 40,000 - 50,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

33 days holiday including BH

Life Assurance

GP Consultation (online)

Cash-plan benefits (dental, optical, χ

Mental health support

Physiotherapy access

Legal advice on domestic issues

Pension Scheme

Blue Light Card access

Employee Assistance Programme (EAP)

Flu vaccination campaign

Job summary

EMED Group is seeking a BI Analyst to join our business intelligence team. This remote role requires occasional national travel for meetings and in-office touchpoints.

You will build and manage reporting using SQL Server, Power BI and PowerApps to drive growth and efficiency, with a focus on Time and Attendance data, performance reporting, and cross-department data relationships. Collaborate with IT, Finance, Operations, HR and Compliance to deliver timely, accurate insights and develop data

Qualifications

• Power BI experience essential, including dashboard design and data modelling.
• Power Query experience essential – transform datasets.
• SQL Server experience essential – ETL and querying.
• Experience with REST APIs desirable.
• Coding experience with PowerShell and Python desirable.
• Experience with PowerApps and Power Automate within the Microsoft Power Suite.
• Experience as BI analyst or data visualization analyst.
• Knowledge of data modelling and relational databases.

Responsibilities

• Produce daily, weekly and monthly reporting using SQL, PowerApps and Power BI.
• Develop reporting to measure commercial and operational success across contracts.
• Support Operational Managers with analytical reporting and summaries.
• Undertake analytical projects to support decision making and continual improvement.
• Perform trend analysis and forecasting for demand, capacity, systems and processes.
• Validate numbers and ensure data quality across key sources.
• Own data quality practices and data cleansing across sources.
• Follow workflows, data dictionaries and applications to meet business needs.
• Collaborate to identify requirements and test solutions.
• Maintain positive relations with internal users and ensure on-time delivery of projects.
• Understand business strategy to provide value-adding BI tools.
• Ensure reports and analytics are up to date and meet requirements.
• Collaborate with IT, Finance, Operations, HR, Bidding, Compliance, etc.

Skills

Power BI

SQL Server

Power Query

REST API

Python

PowerApps

Data storytelling

Analytical skills

Communication skills

Tools

SQL Server Management Studio

DAX

Job description

Contract type: Full time, permanent

Location: Remote with national travel

We have a fantastic opportunity for a BI Analyst to join our business intelligence team, this will be a remote role with national travel required occasionally as and when required for the attendance of meetings, events and in-office touchpoint days.

The BI Analyst will be responsible for creating, developing and managing critical reporting suites to drive business growth and efficiency. This will encompass both planned and ad hoc reports derived from all software platforms and will be predominately harnessing SQL Server, PowerBi and PowerApps technologies.

A key focus of the role will be to analyse and dissect Time and Attendance data to produce comprehensive reporting, whilst identifying efficiency improvement, and create relationships to other data sources within the organisation to identify and quantify value.

The role will also focus on performance reporting and the development of reporting suites covering operational, people, financial and other transactional data sources.

Benefits for the role include

• £40,000-£50,000 per annum, depending on experience.
• 40 hours per week
• 33 days holiday, inclusive of Bank Holidays, increasing with service
• Life Assurance
• 24/7 online/telephone GP Consultation and access to prescriptions.
• 2nd opinion medical support following diagnosis or where a colleague is on a treatment pathway.
• Cash-plan benefits, providing colleagues the option of protecting themselves in case of illness and recuperation, including dental, optical, chiropody.
• Access to mental health consultations.
• Access to physiotherapy consultations.
• Access to legal advice on domestic issues e.g. motoring offences, wills and probate, and personal injury.
• Financial guidance re retirement planning, tax savings and state benefits.
• Long Service Recognition Scheme – recognising colleagues for their continued service after 5 and 20 years’ service.
• Values-based Internal Recognition Scheme with financial reward, which will lead to an annual recognition event.
• Refer a Friend recruitment incentive scheme with financial rewards.
• The EMED foundation, to provide support to colleagues and our local communities.
• Pension Scheme.
• Blue Light Card access
• EAP (Employee Assistance Programme) to support a range of health and wellbeing requirements.
• Flu vaccination (through an internal campaign in Autumn/Winter).

Role Responsibilities

• Use the in-house systems to produce 1st in class daily, weekly and monthly reporting, including the use of SQL, PowerApps and PowerBI to display key metrics in a way that can be clearly understood across the business;
• Develop reporting to measure both commercial, operational success and quality of service delivery across multiple contracts and functional areas.
• Support Operational Managers and Heads of Departments with analytical and concise reporting and summaries.
• Undertake projects as directed to provide analytical solutions to support business decision making and review in the development of continual improvement and business development.
• Undertake trend analysis and forecasting to inform users of key performance information relating to demand, capacity, systems and process management and compliance
• Communicate with colleagues to validate that numbers and material have the right level of quality.
• Own data quality practices and procedures, ensuring data validated and cleansed as necessary across all key data sources within the organisation.
• Use workflows, processes, data dictionaries and applications as relevant and followed by functional areas to meet business strategy needs.
• Collaborate with colleagues to identify and describe requirements and test solutions.
• Create and manage positive relations with internal users and manage the projects to have accurate and on-time delivery.
• Understand business strategy, goals and objectives to provide value-adding BI tools.
• Make sure reports and analytics are up to date and meet the requirement.
• Collaborate with and cooperate with teams (IT, Finance, Operations, HR, Bidding, Compliance, etc.).
• Deliver responsibilities in the most cost-effective way

Do you have what it takes?

• Power BI Experience and/or qualifications essential - designing dashboards, complex DAX calculations, create data models, not just structure data sets, understand relationships between different data sets, keep up to date with all the new releases, building foundations of data set.
• Power Query Experience Essential – Experience and knowledge of Power Query M, application of PowerQuery to connect and transform datasets.
• SQL Server Experience Essential – database maintenance, creating queries and procedures, applying ETL processes to collate, store and process various data sources from within and outside of the organisation.
• Experience of REST API protocols, and application of API’s to extract/load data, is desirable.
• Other coding experience highly desirable, including but not limited to utilisation of PowerShell and Python.
• Experience with the Microsoft Power Suite of products, including PowerApps, Power Automate, etc.
• Experience as a business analyst, data visualisation analyst, BI analyst or computer/coding related qualification.
• Conceptual knowledge of data modelling and relational databases.
• Can explain complex data structures and analyses to both technical and non-technical stakeholders.
• Have a good grasp of “data storytelling” – you can visualise data to emphasise the main story.
• Ability to communicate and translate data.
• Knowledge of data modelling and relational databases.
• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills with the ability to simply the complex.
• Ability to analyse, interpret and apply complex data and information.
• Background in managing big data sets, including relational databases.
• Display a natural curiosity into data and the ability to instil this in others across the business.
• Excellent observation and analysis skills. A sharp eye for detail.
• The ability to handle multiple tasks effectively and prioritises workload to ensure targets are achieved without compromising performance.
• Excellent written and oral communication skills, with ability to produce accurate, concise data that is clear to understand.
• Ability to work within challenging deadlines and independently prioritise workload.
• You will have a proven track record in delivering results within a progressive, dynamic, fast-paced and complex operational environment, comfortable handling large data sets from multiple data sources.

About Us

The exciting merger of ERS Medical and E-Zec Medical has enabled us to rebrand, therefore as a combined business we are now known as EMED Group.We are the largest Patient Transport and Care Partner to the NHS with circa 4,000 colleagues across 60 depots. Our ambition is to continue developing patient care transport services that improve the health and wellbeing for people across our local communities by providing transport that supports patient care, community support, secure mental health and medical courier services.

EMED Group are committed to providing services for our patients, service users, clients, and community and is supported by employees with an increasing variety of backgrounds. To do this effectively it is essential that we promote equality and embrace diversity and inclusion and treat all of our employees, patients, service users and clients with dignity and respect.

EMED Group is committed to encouraging equality, diversity and inclusion among our workforce, and eliminating unlawful discrimination, with our aim being to be truly representative of all sections of society and our clients, and for each employee to feel respected, valued and able to give their best.

EMED Group are committed to providing equal opportunities and we endeavour to provide an inclusive and safe working culture for all.