BI Data Analyst

Job Details

Hours: 37.5 per week, Monday to Friday

Location: Flexible working with up to 3 days a week in our VHQ, Crawley

Contract: Permanent

Closing Date: Thursday, 12th September

In a nutshell

Virgin Atlantic is a purpose led long haul airline. Committed to protecting the planet, whilst bringing the social and economic benefits of connectivity and trade to the destinations and communities we serve. We're on a mission to net zero by 2050, but no airline can tackle the decarbonisation challenge alone. At Virgin Atlantic, we're committed to innovation, pioneering change through partnership, and being transparent in our progress.

In order to drive change and improvements across the business, the BI Data Analyst will play a key role in providing valuable insights that translate into business recommendations. Within this role you will be heavily involved in producing and developing cash forecasting and modelling, based on current business conditions and past performance. This will support our Finance Business Partners and Treasury team in having an accurate and insightful cashflow report to understand our receivables & payables performance over a 13/17-week period.

Reporting to the Manager - Reporting and Compliance, you'll use technical expertise to produce & develop high quality accurate and relevant reports, delivering these in a timely manner, building towards our overall Business Intelligence Data Platform to enable self-service for the business areas, educating and influencing our internal stakeholders.

Day to day

• Providing weekly cash forecasts (both payable and receivable) with insights and recommendations, which play into our Long-Term Plan.
• This position develops and leads on weekly forecasting, providing structure and strong communications to all the key stakeholders impacted in the process.
• The role continues to develop the rolling forecast process within the timeframe of a rolling 13/17 week forecasting timeline, linking in closely with the Treasury team, ensuring that the immediate term supports long term strategy.
• Ensures mid to long term forecasts are updated for ongoing business risks and opportunities, keeping the business advised of progress, identifying gaps to drive improvements.
• Provides financial sensitivity and scenario analysis on a timely basis to help advise tactical decision making and communicate the potential impact of key events/risks.
• Drive financial success through regular model updates and providing forward-looking advice on cash management.
• Building and maintaining Working Capital Reports using Power BI, to inform and educate the wider business on our working capital position.
• Track business performance and offer insight to understand how these play out in terms of our working capital position, as well as ensuring current team outputs remain relevant and up to date.
• Recommending improved reporting, either progressing existing reports or developing new items.
• Regular engagement with the Business to gain insight, acting as a key contact point from a Reporting and Compliance perspective.
• Maintain Working Capital controls database, performing regular access reviews across Oracle modules and Power BI.
• Challenges the business where necessary to ensure data modelling/reporting requests are appropriate and aligned with the wider business context.
• Regularly auditing/reviewing the outsourced teams' activities against key deliverables, KPIs, and contractual SLAs.
• Support our outsourced provider from an operational perspective and ensure training and knowledge transfers are appropriately fulfilled.

About you

Do you have a relevant qualification in an analytical or technical discipline? Do you have proven experience within data analysis or a related field and producing forecasts? Then this could be the role for you!

Alongside the above, we're looking for the following:

• Experience in developing and leading on weekly/monthly/annual forecasts.
• Previous experience in building BI technologies, for example Power BI datasets.
• Strong ability to translate complex data into actionable insights and clear visualizations, with excellent data storytelling skills.
• Experience of partnering with business stakeholders, possessing the inter-personal skills to build a network of contacts that will be both the input and recipient of key financial outputs from the Reporting and Compliance Team.
• Proven ability to work at a fast pace, capable of working simultaneously on more than one task, and appreciative of the organization's deliverables and workstreams.

If the above sounds like you, then we'd love to hear from you!

Be yourself

Our customers come from all walks of life and so do our colleagues. That's why we're proud to be an equal opportunity employer and actively encourage applications from all backgrounds. At Virgin Atlantic, we believe everyone can take on the world - no matter your age, gender, gender identity, gender expression, ethnicity, sexual orientation, disabilities, religion, or beliefs. We celebrate difference and everything that makes our colleagues unique by upholding an inclusive environment in which we can all thrive.