Business Intelligence Analyst

What the role involves

• Model business data into semantic layers consumed by reporting tools
• Build and maintain dashboards for recurring business reviews
• Reconcile figures against source systems and explain variances
• Design scorecards that match how the business is actually managed
• Partner with business owners to define and refine key performance indicators

Core skills

• SQL (level 4/5)
• Data Visualisation & Dashboarding (level 4/5)
• Business Metric Definition (level 4/5)
• Spreadsheet & Modelling (level 4/5)
• Data Validation & Reconciliation (level 3/5)
• Business Communication (level 4/5)

Preferred skills

• Power BI / Tableau Administration
• Data Modelling & Warehousing
• Presentation & Storytelling

Tools

Experience expected

1-3 years in BI, reporting or commercial analysis

Projects that prove the role

• Executive scorecard replacing a manual weekly spreadsheet pack
• Variance analysis that identified a recurring revenue leakage point
• Self-service reporting layer that reduced ad-hoc report requests

Evidence to collect

• A live dashboard with a defined audience and decision it supports
• A reconciliation example showing you checked the numbers
• A written narrative that a leader acted on

What the interview covers

• Designing a scorecard for a business with no existing metric definitions
• Explaining a variance between two reconciled sources
• Choosing between a table, a line chart and a KPI tile
• Handling a stakeholder who wants a number the data does not support

How the role progresses

• Junior BI Analyst
• BI Analyst
• Senior BI Analyst
• Analytics Lead
• Head of Business Intelligence

Certifications that carry weight

• Microsoft Certified: Data Analyst Associate
• Tableau Certified Data Analyst

Related roles

• data-analyst
• analytics-engineer
• financial-analyst

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