Hybrid Analytics & Insights Lead — Power BI & Strategy

DEFEND Limited; Wellington; Hybrid; NZD 120,000 - 180,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

KiwiSaver 3.5%

Health insurance

Mobile & Broadband discounts

Hybrid work environment

Home office allowance

EAP services

Job summary

DEFEND Limited, a leading NZ cybersecurity company, seeks a Reporting and Analytics Lead to shape data-driven decision making. You will design, develop and improve reporting, semantic models and insights across the business, delivering trusted financial and operational dashboards.

You will collaborate with stakeholders, translate complex data into actionable insights, and advance governance and modeling practices in a dynamic, growth-oriented environment.

Qualifications

• Proven experience developing and managing reporting, BI or analytics solutions.
• Strong working knowledge of Microsoft Fabric, OneLake, Power BI, Dataflows Gen2 and semantic models.
• Experience building financial, operational or commercial reporting and dashboard solutions.
• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills with the ability to translate data into actionable insights.
• Excellent stakeholder management and communication skills.

Responsibilities

• Lead DEFEND’s Reporting and Analytics capability: drive design, development and continuous improvement of reporting and analytics across the business.
• Deliver trusted insights: design and maintain Power BI reports, dashboards and semantic models for leaders’ insights.
• Drive business performance through analytics: support forecasting, planning and performance management.
• Collaborate with internal teams to develop reports and analytics that create business value.

Skills

Power BI

SQL

DAX

Data Modelling

Data governance

Stakeholder management

Analytics leadership

Microsoft Fabric

OneLake

Tools

Power BI Dataflows Gen2

Semantic models

Power Query

SQL

Job description

DEFEND Limited, a leading NZ cybersecurity company, seeks a Reporting and Analytics Lead to shape data-driven decision making. You will design, develop and improve reporting, semantic models and insights across the business, delivering trusted financial and operational dashboards.

You will collaborate with stakeholders, translate complex data into actionable insights, and advance governance and modeling practices in a dynamic, growth-oriented environment.