BI Analyst
Role Overview
The BI Analyst links business teams with the Data Engineering function, using trusted data sources to answer business questions and support decisions.
The role focuses on analysis, reporting, and explaining the story behind data; Data Engineering owns the underlying data platform, databases, and data models.
The analyst works with teams across the Group and may support reporting requests, data investigations, dashboards, and business projects.
Key Skills for This Role
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Role overview
The BI Analyst links business teams with the Data Engineering function, using trusted data sources to answer business questions and support decisions.
The role focuses on analysis, reporting, and explaining the story behind data; Data Engineering owns the underlying data platform, databases, and data models.
The analyst works with teams across the Group and may support reporting requests, data investigations, dashboards, and business projects.
Key responsibilities
- Translate stakeholder reporting needs and business questions into practical data solutions.
- Write and maintain SQL queries using pre-built databases and reporting views.
- Build and maintain Workday Adaptive Planning sheets, models, and reporting structures.
- Create and enhance reports and dashboards using Workday, Power BI, and other reporting tools.
- Work with Data Engineers to understand datasets and map data into Workday and other business applications.
- Support APIs, integrations, and onboarding of new systems and data sources.
- Extract, analyse, and present information across databases and systems; validate outputs and investigate discrepancies.
- Explore data, test assumptions, and provide evidence-based insight for business projects.
- Identify reporting automation and improvement opportunities, and document reports, queries, definitions, and logic.
Essential skills and experience
- Strong SQL skills, including querying, joining, transforming, and analysing data.
- Good understanding of relational databases such as Microsoft SQL Server, PostgreSQL, or similar.
- Experience building reports, dashboards, or analytical outputs from business requirements.
- Experience with BI or reporting tools such as Workday or Power BI.
- Experience using Microsoft Excel for data analysis.
- Comfort working across multiple databases, systems, and data sources.
- Strong analytical, investigative, and problem-solving skills; able to explain limitations in messy or incomplete data.
- Confident stakeholder communication and ability to explain findings to people without a technical background.
Desirable experience
- Jira or similar project/work management tools.
- Data warehouses or reporting databases.
- Workday, Power BI, or similar BI tools.
- Retail, healthcare, optical, or audiology experience.
Benefits and development
- Employee health plan, rewards portal, and a calendar of team events.
- Supportive and growing team, company culture, and progression opportunities.
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