Business Intelligence Analyst
Location: Home Based - *WITH FREQUENT TRAVEL TO UK SITES*
We have an exciting opportunity for a Junior Business Intelligence Analyst to join our established IT team. Based from home you’ll primarily be responsible for designing and building the data logic, data models and interfaces for Qlik dashboards whilst maintaining the currents suite of Qlik applications and automated reports.
The Company:
- Come join Alexander Dennis. We are transforming public transport globally by designing, manufacturing, and servicing the cleanest and greenest buses and coaches for our customers.
- In a nutshell, we build buses and coaches. In fact, more than half of the buses you see on the roads in the UK are built by Alexander Dennis. We have a huge responsibility to keep the world moving.
- We are saving the planet. Our purpose is to support Governments globally with their push to reduce pollution and improve air quality by building greener, more eco-friendly buses.
- We love our customers. So much so, almost every bus we build is bespoke what the customer wants, we will do our best to deliver.
- We have a fantastic Canadian parent company called NFI. They welcomed us into the family in 2019, and we haven’t looked back ever since.
- We are building back and growing again, winning new orders in Germany and Ireland which will be manufactured right here in the UK.
- Our global footprint is pretty impressive. We have a presence in some super cool places across the world from Hong Kong to Auckland to Toronto.
- Our people are our biggest asset, making us the hugely successful company we are. We are transforming how we work, offering team members more flexibility around how they live and work.
What does that mean for you?
- Generous package we reward our people at the level they deserve
- A half day on a Friday. Yes, every Friday. Giving you more time at the weekend to do the things you love with the people you love
- A 37-hour working week, with flexible working options, giving you that much needed work/life balance
- Annual leave entitlement which increases with tenure
- Pension scheme to help you save for the future
- Access to our Employee Assistance Programme which offers practical, impartial support on issues impacting your life
- Cycle to work scheme, discounted gym membership, and regular meditation sessions as your health and wellbeing is important to us.
Interested and want to find out more? Check out our YouTube channel or LinkedIn!
Your dream role:
- Data is at the heart of our business, whether it be analysing the thousands of parts needed to build our vehicles, providing insight on reliability issues from our warranty spend or predicting customer behaviour from our sales data. We have a vast amount of data at our disposal, all of which needs to be mined, analysed and acted upon if we are to achieve our growth plans.
- As a Junior Business Intelligence Analyst in the BI team, you will play a pivotal role in transforming our data into one of our biggest assets, getting involved with all departments to add real value to our business.
- You will be responsible for performing development activities from gathering requirements and designing solutions, through developing code and reports, to testing and release.
- You will design and build the data logic, data models and interfaces for Qlik dashboards, providing a scalable and reusable solution.
- Successful collaboration with end users and stakeholders to add value to their reporting will be key.
- You will highlight issues with data cleansing and validity and develop processes to rectify these going forward.
- Ultimately you will produce clear and effective dashboards and automated reports that connect the business and provide one version of the truth.
- A full list of roles and responsibilities is at the end of this advert.
What you will bring:
- It’s a technically challenging position, so it’s essential that you are able to demonstrate success in a similar role as defined in this advert, with at least 1 years’ experience using QlikView, Qlik Sense or a similar dashboarding tool, as well as NPrinting or a similar automated reporting tool.
- You will have strong data acquisition, manipulation and analysis skills, with good SQL and ETL knowledge.
- You will have the ability to uncover new data insight and pursue this to realise business benefits.
- Ideally you will have prior working knowledge of ERP systems with Syspro as the preferred background.
- You will have strong communication and interpersonal skills, and be comfortable influencing at all levels of the business.
- A UK Driving License