Senior BI Analyst/Lead BI Analyst

Company Description

IFS is a billion-dollar revenue company with 6000+ employees on all continents. Our leading AI technology is the backbone of our award-winning enterprise software solutions, enabling our customers to be their best when it really matters–at the Moment of Service™. Our commitment to internal AI adoption has allowed us to stay at the forefront of technological advancements, ensuring our colleagues can unlock their creativity and productivity, and our solutions are always cutting-edge.

At IFS, we’re flexible, we’re innovative, and we’re focused not only on how we can engage with our customers but on how we can make a real change and have a worldwide impact. We help solve some of society’s greatest challenges, fostering a better future through our agility, collaboration, and trust.

We celebrate diversity and understand our responsibility to reflect the diverse world we work in. We are committed to promoting an inclusive workforce that fully represents the many different cultures, backgrounds, and viewpoints of our customers, our partners, and our communities. As a truly international company serving people from around the globe, we realize that our success is tantamount to the respect we have for those different points of view.

By joining our team, you will have the opportunity to be part of a global, diverse environment; you will be joining a winning team with a commitment to sustainability; and a company where we get things done so that you can make a positive impact on the world.

We’re looking for innovative and original thinkers to work in an environment where you can #MakeYourMoment so that we can help others make theirs. With the power of our AI-driven solutions, we empower our team to change the status quo and make a real difference.

If you want to change the status quo, we’ll help you make your moment. Join Team Purple. Join IFS.

Job Description

Summary

The ideal candidate loves to help others solve problems, work in a collaborative setting, take on big challenges, work with both technical and non-technical business partners to tell beautiful visual stories with data! This person will take a design thinking approach to deliver reporting, analysis, dashboards, and other analytical solutions that empower leadership to use data at scale.  

They will be collaborating with Business Analyst, Product Owners, and other internal teams to understand business requirements and then build scalable solutions for the business. 

The role will be hands-on in building the business and technical requirements for reporting and analytical solutions by leveraging data generated within IFS Systems and by other 3rd party systems.  

The role requires a person who has experience in complex data analysis using a variety of techniques and tools like Power Query or SQL coding. 

It demands an understanding and creative problem solving on how data from multiple sources can be joined together to create a data set for consumption by the Global IFS user community. 

You are self-led and passionate about building reports and visualizations that support the business in making data driven decisions. 

You are ready to answer the big questions about what is working and what is not working, but also have the patience, determination, and focus to dig into the data.

Essential Duties & Accountabilities

• Hands-on analysis of complex data sets to develop scalable data models that can solve business problems. 
• Design and contribute to a BI ecosystem that enables internal customers to self-serve the data they need at scale; including dashboards, Scorecards, recurring reports and more. 
• Automate key business processes and metrics into visualizations that tell a story for our Senior Leadership.  
• Establish processes, standards and taxonomies that encourage trust with data and provide consistent metrics across the organization. 
• Contribute to collaboration efforts with other departments to develop analytic models, analysis and reports that support IFS leadership 
• Being the go-to person for collaboration between business and technical resources 
• Monitors feedback on the use of business applications, enhancing system productivity as needed. 
• Understand the organization’s collaboration, workflow, data and document management requirements and identification of opportunities 
• Provision of business and technical requirements documentation 

Qualifications

• Examples of solving tangible business problems using data analytics based off complex data structures 
• Demonstrable firsthand experience of delivering BI and Analytical solutions using a variety of tools.  
• Ability to interpret business requirements and translate this into scalable data models 
• Quality control the solution through build and delivery 
• Monitor quality and reliability to reduce rework, user frustration and errors 
• Ability to write basic code in either SQL, Python or R to do data discovery 
• Evidence of strong documentation and presentation skills 
• Focused on accuracy of output and long-term reliability 
• Utilize knowledge of business processes and tools to make recommendations to business and other impacted parties regarding solution options and deployment strategies 
• Document usage processes for data entry/creation/management  
• Provide expert user support and guidance, as required   
• Deliver user training and documentation, as required  
• Experience getting consensus and buy in on solutions that are right 
• Minimum 3 years’ experience working with SSAS, SSIS, DAX and Power BI
• Excel Power User

Additional Information

Desirable: 

• Analytical and Reporting skills (Power BI & Power Queary) would be a plus 
• Experience with Microsoft Azure, SharePoint, or other related technologies is a plus. 
• Aha! or JIRA experience 
• Data Governance Experience 
• Experience in pricing in industry would be a plus (Software, Platform, IT) 

Additional information
Job Competencies

Analytical Thinking/Problem Solving 
Business Acumen 
Effective Communication Skills 
Constantly curious 
Data analysis and strategy 
Data Visualization using Power BI 
Data Modeling Concepts 
Creativity and Innovation 
Dependability 
Planning and Organizing/Time Management 
Results-Oriented