Business Intelligence Analyst

Overview

My Dublin City Centre based client is recruiting for a Business Intelligence Analyst to join the team. This is a 12 month fixed term contract with a view in going permanent. The successful candidate should have experience in Data Analytics & Metrics optimisation.

The candidate will support the design and delivery of Business Intelligence solutions to accelerate business decision making.  The candidate will implement standardised processes and increase BI solutions for metrics and KPIs across the organisation. The candidate will help to compile analytics for use in monthly reviews for our key stakeholders. The candidate will positively influence business units and seek to continuously develop enhancements to existing or new reports

Responsibilities

• Minimum of 3 years experience in the implementation and hands on support of complex, large business applications.
• Strong ability to understand and find appropriate applications for data and analyse results
• Effective determination of user requirements
• Translation of user requirements into system requirements
• Formal Methodologies (e.g. PRINCE, SSADM, RAD)
• Structured Analysis Techniques
• Data Modelling
• Expertise in Business Objects at universe and report level
• ETL skills ( Extract, Transform and Load)
• Liaison with third party solution providers in the design of software changes
• Application maintenance and application change management
• Stored procedures
• Direct responsibility for support to a diverse range of end-users in an intensive and demanding environment
• Expertise in T-SQL and SQL Server 2000
• Experience of implementation of at least one enterprise level application
• Pivotal business analysis and design role in the implementation of new (or revised) systems.
• Extensive liaison with business units to coordinate requirements and change requests
• Translation of requirements into coordinated systems specifications
• Directly responsible for hands on support of end-users of selected applications
• Problem investigation, cause determination and issue resolution where possible
• Primary liaison for system enhancements and product developments and continuous improvement of existing business processes
• Parameterisation of the application
• Report development using industry standard tools
• Leveraging computer applications to support and develop practices in business units