Senior BI Analyst

Glanbia Nutritionals, Inc.; Kilkenny; Hybrid; EUR 65,000 - 85,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading nutrition company located in Kilkenny is seeking a Senior BI Business Analyst to transform data into actionable insights. The role involves collaborating with stakeholders, developing dashboards, and optimizing data flows using technologies like SAP BW and SAC. Ideal candidates will have a strong background in data modelling and excellent communication skills. The position promotes a data-driven culture in a hybrid working environment.

Qualifications

• 5+ years’ experience in developing reporting solutions using SAP BW, Datasphere BO and SAC.
• Experience in designing and delivering high‑quality data visualisations.
• Excellent communication skills with the ability to engage and influence stakeholders.

Responsibilities

• Liaise with business stakeholders to gather and document requirements for reporting solutions.
• Develop and maintain data models, queries, and dashboards.
• Ensure data quality, consistency, and governance across BI platforms.

Skills

Project management

Data visualization

Stakeholder engagement

Data modelling

Education

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, or a related field

Tools

SAP BW

SAP BO Analysis for Excel

SAP SAC

SAP Datasphere

Job description

Overview

Reporting to the IT Applications Manager, this role is responsible for transforming data into actionable insights that support strategic decision‑making and operational efficiency. The Senior BI Business Analyst will collaborate with stakeholders to define reporting requirements, develop dashboards and data models, and deliver impactful BI solutions. The role combines technical expertise with strong stakeholder engagement to shape how data is used across the organisation.

Key Responsibilities

• Liaise with business stakeholders to gather, document and refine requirements for reporting solutions, demonstrating an understanding of the business problem and the business data for the particular area in question.
• Develop and maintain data models, queries, and dashboards. Craft and develop queries upon request for data, create visualizations and reports to present information.
• Optimize data flows and performance of BI reports.
• Ensure data quality, consistency, and governance across BI platforms.
• Complete the development of SAP BW, Datasphere BO and SAC technologies to develop rich, interactive, visually striking graphics and data visualisations using large amounts of data.
• Promote a data culture within the organisation by advocating and implementing data education and literacy.
• Advise business contacts on existing solutions to prevent duplication and support them to align with their counterparts across the organisation.
• Improve existing dashboards, reports, and data transformations.
• Develop ad‑hoc reporting and provide analytics services to support business decision‑making processes.
• Help define or revise business and project KPIs, and create supporting reporting and dashboards where needed.
• Provide support to the development of training materials and training activities related to the BI tools and applications.

Key Requirements

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, or a related field.
• 5+ years’ experience in developing reporting solutions using SAP BW, Datasphere BO and SAC.
• Expertise in SAP BW, SAP BO Analysis for Excel and SAP SAC.
• Ability to collaborate and develop functional designs for solutions across multiple data areas, delivering business intelligence capabilities (e.g., COPA, MM, IM, C4C, AR, AP, Product Costing etc).
• S4 Hana Embedded Analytics (CDS view) experience.
• Proficiency in data modelling techniques and tools, ETL processes, and performance tuning.
• Experience in designing and delivering high‑quality data visualisations.
• Experience of leveraging SAP Datasphere in technical architecture of solutions would be an advantage.
• Ability to take complex business processes and data and document into understandable artefacts.
• Excellent communication skills with the ability to engage, influence, and inspire partners and stakeholders to drive collaboration and alignment.
• Ability to represent and quantify business value provided by BI solutions across the enterprise.
• Proactive, self‑starter with excellent project management skills and ability to manage multiple tasks effectively.
• Strong team player with a growth mindset.

About us

Through our expertise in research and development, customer insights, food safety and state‑of‑the‑art manufacturing we bring innovative food and nutrition solutions to a global market. Our new and vibrant headquarters in Kilkenny City operates as a collaboration hub where multi‑functional teams come together in a hybrid work environment.

Commitment to Diversity & Inclusion

We believe in the value of difference. We know that different perspectives, life experience and backgrounds can drive innovation and deliver growth.

We welcome people from all walks of life without regard to race, colour, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender perception or identity, national origin, age, marital status, or disability status.

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