BI Business Analyst

IFS develops and delivers enterprise software for customers around the world who manufacture and distribute goods, build and maintain assets, and manage service-focused operations. The industry expertise of our people and solutions, together with a commitment to delivering value to every one of our customers, has made IFS a recognized leader and the most recommended supplier in our sector. Our team of 4,000 employees and growing ecosystem of partners support more than 10,000 customers around the world challenge the status quo and realize their competitive advantage. Learn more about how our enterprise software solutions can help your business today at ifs.com.

At IFS you will work in a growing, global enterprise software company where informal hierarchies promote simplicity and trust with responsibility. We strive to deepen our expertise by taking on challenging and varying work assignments in a collaborative environment together with committed colleagues. With professionalism and a strong customer focus in everything we do, from R&D to Sales and Consultancy, we are proud to serve world-class customers all over the globe with our leading products.

We are an equal opportunity employer and value diversity at our company.

The role will be hands-on in building the business and technical requirements for reporting and analytical solutions using data that is generated within the IFS ERP or other 3rd party systems.

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

It demands an understanding of how data from multiple sources can be joined together to create a data set for consumption by the wider BI user community.

The critical skill required is being able to:

·        Document usage processes for data entry/creation/management

·        interpret business requirements and translate this into a Data model

·        Explain the data model, its potential and limitations to end users.

·        Work with the BI Developer and understand how they might approach building the solution

·        Quality control the solution through build and delivery

·        Monitor quality and reliability to reduce rework and user frustration

Duties will include:

·        Hands-on analysis of complex data sets to develop a data model that can solve business problems

·        Being the go-to person for collaboration between business, technical resources, and transformation team.

·        Understanding of Agile project methodology and the role of Business Analysts and Product Owners within it

·        Provision of business and technical requirements documentation

·        Ability to operate as part of a project with defined outcomes

·        Maintain projects in Jira, align priorities and keep participants informed of progress

·        Co-ordinate and encourage citizen developer community

·        Create Bi processes and documentation to enable a contribution model to create capacity from the larger Developer and BI community

·        Demonstratable hands on experience of delivering BI and Analytical solutions using a variety of tools. Experience of Power BI would be advantageous. Use of Tableau or Qlik would also be beneficial

·        Ability to write basic code in either SQL, Python or R to do data discovery

·        Evidence of strong documentation and presentation skills

·        Good communicator with experience of explaining technical information to a non-technical audience