The BI Analyst TalentCloud seeks analysts with deep experience transforming data into insights that drive business value. The experts should be able to identify business intelligence, reporting, and data analysis needs. Other responsibilities and characteristics include:
- Work closely with clients and IT teams to turn data into critical information and develop knowledge that can be used to make sound business decisions
- Able to build an understanding of the business in detail to identify and address critical data issues
- They provide data that is accurate, congruent and reliable, and ensure the information is easily available to users for direct consumption or integration with other systems
- They should be able to use data analytics, data visualization, and data modeling techniques and technologies as well as identify trends that can help other departments, managers and executives make business decisions to modernize and improve processes in the organization
- They should be able to educate and train clients to use the data as an analytical tool, displaying the information in new forms and content for the purpose of analysis and option exploration
- BI Analysts work with clients to determine business requirements, priorities, define key performance indicators (KPI), and develop BI and data warehouse (DW) strategy
- This includes working with business and development teams to design, and document dashboards, alerts, and reports
- Analysts are accountable for providing leadership and independent initiatives in facilitating information gathering, structured documentation, and presenting findings to all levels of management
- They conduct analyses of functional business processes and functional business requirements and participate in the development of business cases in the support of process changes and/or IT projects
- They understand how data is turned into information and knowledge and how that knowledge supports and enables key business processes
- BI Analysts must have an in-depth understanding of the business environment and an interest in going beyond the obvious, delving into the source, the definition, philosophy, and foundational roots of a data element in order to create information
- And they must work well within a team environment
Required Skills
- Data modeling
- Data Integration tools and capabilities would be very useful
- Business intelligence
- Good expertise with SQL querying skills
- Data analysis
- Business analysis
- Database management and reporting
- Business administration
- Microsoft Office and Excel
- Critical-thinking and problem-solving
- Communication skills
- Review and validate customer data as it’s collected
- Oversee the deployment of data to the data warehouse
- Develop policies and procedures for the collection and analysis of data
- Create or discover new data procurement and processing programs
- Monitor analytics and metrics results
- Implement new data analysis methodologies
- Review customer files to ensure the integrity of data collection and utilization
- Perform data profiling to identify and understand anomalies
Preferred Skills
- Data warehousing
- Understanding of ETL Tools, best practices for data preparation
- Strong oral and written communication
- Leadership skills
- Ability to handle multiple tasks and workstreams in a fast-paced environment
- SDLC methodologies (Waterfall and Agile Development)
