Business Intelligence Analyst

Lyon's A Bit Creative; Hull and East Yorkshire; On-site; GBP 35,000 - 45,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading integrated health and safety expert is seeking a skilled Business Intelligence Analyst to provide analytical support. In this role, you'll enhance business performance through insightful reporting and deep data analysis, collaborating with cross-functional teams. Ideal candidates will have expertise in SAP BW and Power BI, alongside excellent analytical and communication skills. This fixed-term contract presents a unique opportunity to contribute to strategic growth and improvement initiatives in the organization.

Benefits

Competitive starting salary plus up to 10% bonus

32 days holiday plus option to purchase 5 more days

Excellent pension and life assurance scheme

Employee Assistance Programme access

Access to Learning Management System for development

Long-term service awards

Qualifications

• Proven track record of Business Intelligence analysis in a commercially focused environment.
• Ability to communicate effectively with stakeholders at all levels.
• Excellent problem-solving and decision-making skills.

Responsibilities

• Drive business intelligence governance processes.
• Acquire data and deliver technical solutions.
• Analyze and document business requirements for reports.

Skills

Expert in SAP BW on Hana and Hana studio

HANA technology

Expert in Power BI

Experience of Bex Query Analyser

Strong time management

Excellent analytical skills

IT literate with advanced Excel, Access, and SQL

Good commercial acumen

Tools

Power BI

SAP Business Objects

Job description

About the Role

Are you a dynamic Analyst with a passion for turning raw data into actionable insights? Arco, the UK's leading integrated health and safety experts, is on the lookout for a skilled Business Intelligence Analyst to join our team. In this role, you'll play a vital part in shaping Arco's future by providing rich and insightful business intelligence reporting to our front-line teams and Commercial Finance colleagues.

As a Business Intelligence Analyst at Arco you will provide analytical support and guidance, to ensure both operational and financial performance of the business are understood and help drive sales growth, customer insight and commercial performance.

Please note, this vacancy is a Fixed Term Contract to cover maternity leave.

Key Responsibilities

• Taking shared responsibility for the business intelligence governance process to drive a single version of the truth agenda, and ensure a consistent stakeholder experience
• Acquisition of data; link in with multiple stakeholders to create and deliver technical solution to extract, transform and load data
• Providing data to those who require it, by understanding end user needs, providing appropriate data and data solutions, to Analysts, IT and non‑technical colleagues (including where required 3rd parties)
• Analysing and documenting business requirements to design and write analytical business reports. This should include test of data and design validation for quality output
• Discovering, documenting and applying best practice research and analysis as part of the Business Intelligence continuous improvement agenda

Benefits

• A competitive starting salary plus up to 10% bonus
• 32 days holiday inclusive of bank holidays, plus the option to purchase up to 5 more days
• 2 fully paid Community Volunteering days every year
• An excellent pension and 8× salary Life Assurance scheme
• A huge range of high street retailer discounts to help with cost of living via MyArco Perks
• Free, 24‑hour access to our Employee Assistance Programme
• Access to our Learning Management System, to support your personal and career development
• Long‑term service awards; proud to have employees who have worked for us for 40 years

Ideal Business Intelligence Analyst

• Expert in SAP BW on Hana and Hana studio (essential)
• HANA technology (Attribute, Analytical, Calculation views)
• Expert in relevant technologies, including Power BI and SAP Business Objects
• Experience of Bex Query Analyser is advantageous
• Proven track record of Business Intelligence analysis in a pressurised and commercially focussed business environment
• Strong time management and self‑organisational skills
• Excellent analytical, problem solving and decision making skills
• Ability to communicate clearly, concisely and precisely with key stakeholders at all levels
• IT literate, particularly with advanced Excel, Access and SQL
• Good commercial acumen and excellent understanding of relevant parts of the Arco business and its key performance indicators

About Us

With a 140‑year legacy, Arco are recognised as the UK's leading safety experts. As the only integrated safety products and services business, our size, scale and reputation in the sector are why we have such an impressive portfolio of accounts and customers. We're the expert safety partner with a unique mix of specialist expertise and practical real‑life industry knowledge.

We are now on a transformation journey to become more profitable and sustainable, with investment into our growing business to help achieve this. This is an exciting and demanding time for the business. There is opportunity to shape and challenge the transformation journey and future growth, while balancing the pressure to deliver sales growth and financial targets that are necessary to support the future growth. Our behaviours – Care, Collaborate, Perform and Deliver – are embedded within our culture, to drive performance and ensure we succeed together and are rewarded for that shared success. Because it's on us. To deliver. Together.

Diversity and Inclusion at Arco means understanding everyone's views and giving colleagues a sense of belonging. We respect and value individuals for their unique skills, experiences and ideas; to ensure we can be at our best. By creating a supportive and inclusive environment we will be an organisation able to drive our strategic goals, attracting and developing great people to be a more profitable and sustainable business for generations to come.

Be Safe, Be Yourself, Be Your Best.