Business Analyst

Jobtailor; Bourne End; On-site; GBP 90,000 - 130,000; Full time

Job summary

Jobtailor seeks a senior data analytics professional to advise business leaders with data-driven insights and to design enterprise dashboards across multiple systems. You will work with executives and stakeholders to deliver impactful reports and strategic recommendations.

The role emphasizes governance ownership, data pipelines, and cloud data warehouse knowledge, with an expectation to coach juniors and drive performance optimization.

Qualifications

• 8+ years of experience in data governance, analytics or BI.
• Advanced Excel and PowerPoint skills.
• Experience presenting to Directors and above.
• Ability to design enterprise dashboards across multiple systems.
• Strong data modeling and data pipeline skills.
• Knowledge of cloud data warehouses and data quality.

Responsibilities

• Advise the business with data-driven insights to inform decisions.
• Design complex reports from multiple systems.
• Deliver reports to executives and cross-functional audiences.
• Lead governance initiatives and data quality programs.
• Coach junior analysts in governance, report design and analysis.
• Develop enterprise-level analytical models as needed.

Skills

Advanced Excel

Advanced PowerPoint

Presentation skills

Data governance

Data modeling

Dashboards design

Data integration

Python scripting

SQL

Conflict resolution

Ambiguity management

Governance ownership

Education

Tools

Cloud data warehouse solutions

Job description

• Act as an advisor to the business and support sound decision-making through data-driven insights and business acumen
• Work directly with business stakeholders to understand challenges and design complex reports using data from one or multiple systems
• Deliver reports in formats that support stakeholders, including executive staff and audiences outside the functional area
• Provide strategic, data-driven recommendations to management that influence critical business processes and decisions
• Review reports for data accuracy and independently resolve complex quality issues with business stakeholders
• Apply advanced knowledge of KPIs, team roles, business processes, and data/process interconnections
• Generate recommendations for moderately complex problems and review them with business stakeholders
• Identify and interpret trends and patterns in datasets
• Understand system relationships and data flow and apply data-management best practices
• Maintain data quality and governance in assigned systems
• Lead governance initiatives and performance optimization
• Coach junior analysts in data governance, report design and analysis, data presentation, and technical and organizational effectiveness
• Apply advanced knowledge of data governance, enterprise systems, multi-domain integrations, strategic data policy, and compliance frameworks
• Design cross-system, enterprise-level analytical models as needed

Requirements

• 8+ years of experience
• Advanced systems knowledge in assigned functional area
• Working knowledge of how systems work together and functionality of upstream and downstream systems
• Advanced Microsoft Excel and PowerPoint skills
• Advanced presentation skills
• Experience presenting to Director and above audiences
• Ability to work on ambiguous assignments
• Experience with governance ownership, including defining and driving accountability against standards
• Conflict resolution skills
• Ability to design enterprise-level dashboards integrating complex datasets across business areas
• Experience with advanced data modelling
• Ability to design data pipelines and optimize transformations in cloud data warehouse solutions
• Advanced Python skills for scripting, automation and validation
• Advanced SQL skills
• Transportation and Logistics knowledge preferred
• In lieu of a degree, candidates with 12+ years of experience may be considered if they have extensive and varied experience demonstrating strategic business impact, advanced enterprise systems knowledge, data governance and multi-domain integrations, and expertise in designing and presenting executive-level, data-driven recommendations

Core Competencies

Demonstrates advanced expertise in data governance, enterprise systems, and multi-domain integrations, with a strong ability to design and present data-driven recommendations to executive audiences. Proficient in advanced data modeling, dashboard design, and maintaining data quality across complex datasets.

Highest-signal resume keywords

• Advanced Microsoft Excel Skills
• Advanced SQL Skills
• Advanced Python Skills
• Data Governance Expertise
• Experience Presenting to Director and Above Audiences

ATS Optimization Keywords

Hard Skills

• Data Modeling
• Dashboard Design
• Data Pipeline Design
• Data Quality Management
• Data Analysis
• KPI Knowledge
• Report Design
• Data Presentation
• Conflict Resolution
• Performance Optimization

Soft Skills

• Coaching
• Decision-Making
• Problem-Solving
• Ambiguity Management

Industry Keywords

• Transportation Knowledge
• Logistics Knowledge
• Compliance Frameworks
• Strategic Data Policy

Tools & Technologies

• PowerPoint
• Cloud Data Warehouse Solutions