BI Reporting Analyst

BI REPORTING ANALYST

Job Outline

Based: Theale, Reading

Working Pattern: Hybrid - 3 days a week in the office

Working Hours: The incumbent will need to be flexible with hours to accommodate the global nature of the role – there will be calls with regions around the world, including but not limited to Japan and USA (West Coast). In return the company will offer flexibility to ensure a good work life/home life balance.

Reports to: FP&A Manager GSU

The Company
Roland Europe Group Ltd

Roland is a world leader in the design, manufacture and distribution of electronic musical instruments including keyboards & synthesisers, guitar products, electronic percussion kits, digital recording equipment, amplifiers and audio processing devices. You'll be part of a dynamic team, where we believe in kindness, support, acceptance, and hard work and try to provide room for personal development for everyone.

The Position

The purpose of this role is to support the FP&A Manager, who in turn supports the CFO, in driving data driven decision making within the business by delivering robust and efficient global reporting and analytics. You will support the FP&A Manager in creating and enhancing global reporting and ad hoc analyses in the company’s BI tool, MicroStrategy.

The BI Reporting Analyst sits within the FP&A team, not the BI team, and as such is responsible for front-end dashboard design only. You will collaborate with the BI team to ensure the data required for business reporting is available in the data cubes, but the role does not involve any back-end database work.

We would like our Business Intelligence Reporting Analyst to be someone who has a strong interest and enthusiasm for supporting business stakeholders in understanding performance by designing and creating self-service reports in MicroStrategy. As BI Reporting Analyst you will analyse a wide variety of commercial, financial and operational data and therefore it is essential that you are highly numerate and a fast, independent learner, capable of quickly understanding concepts, with good financial and commercial acumen. You must be able to quickly understand business goals and KPIs and translate these into user friendly dashboards.

Role Accountabilities

BI Reporting

1. Utilise MicroStrategy to design, build and maintain insightful, impactful and user-friendly reporting suites and dashboards to drive data accessibility on a self-serve basis.
2. Collaborate with business stakeholders to define appropriate KPIs to report on based on business goals and priorities.
3. Maintain and improve existing dashboards.

Data

1. Deeply understand commercial, operational and financial data and our company business model.
2. Collaborate with the Business Intelligence team to create required attributes and metrics available in the data cubes by briefing requirements and validating data.
3. Scrutinize data and perform checks to ensure data quality and integrity.

BI Engagement

1. Interact with a range of stakeholders to understand requirements and provide solutions.
2. Become a champion in driving MicroStrategy usage across the business.

Ad-hoc

1. Conduct ad-hoc reporting and analysis to serve specific requests and needs of the business.

Qualifications
EXPERIENCE, SKILLS & QUALIFICATIONS REQUIRED:

1. Graduate with 1-2 years+ work experience and numeric/analytical background.
2. Minimum A/A* GCSE Maths or equivalent. A-Level Maths preferable.

Specific Skills Required

1. Highly numerate.
2. Advanced Excel skills.
3. Strong analytical skills with experience of working with large volumes of data.
4. Excellent visual presentation and data visualisation skills. Able to transform data into digestible information and insights.
5. Familiarity with BI tools or eagerness to learn.
6. Strong financial and commercial acumen. Previous experience of commercial and financial analysis is advantageous.
7. Strong interpersonal & relationship building skills to assist the process of gathering & communicating requirements from/to stakeholders both in person and remotely.
8. Clear communicator, both written and verbal.

Attributes Required

1. Good collaborator and team player.
2. Inquisitive and an eager, quick learner.
3. Able to quickly understand new concepts.
4. A self-starter with a proactive approach.
5. Works diligently with very high attention to detail.
6. Strong interest in data presentation and visualisation.
7. Someone who takes pride in producing innovative and quality work.
8. Independent, logical thinker. Able to come up with own solutions to challenges.
9. Creative thinker who is able to think outside the box to come up with innovative solutions.
10. Able to think and analyse data critically and challenge others in their approach.

The Package

1. Competitive benefits package.