Principal Business Intelligence Analyst

Data Strategy:

• Develop and implement a comprehensive data strategy aligned with business objectives, ensuring collaboration with key stakeholders to support their needs and priorities.
• Lead strategic projects to advance our BI and analytics capabilities, partnering across the BI team and business stakeholders to design, execute and rollout.
• Establish a data literacy strategy to uplevel analytics teams and end users on data and metrics, working closely across the data governance, data modeling, and reporting teams to align efforts.
• Identify and recommend value-add opportunities that may not be directly planned or requested by stakeholders.

Operational Improvements:

• Identify, design, and implement process improvements for our BI environment, development and deployment to enhance operational efficiency and effectiveness.
• Support the continuous enhancement of our BI platform to optimize how users access and leverage insights.
• Explore opportunities for automating repetitive analytics tasks to free up resources for more strategic activities.

Analysis & Reporting:

• Conduct in-depth analysis of large, complex datasets to uncover trends, patterns, and actionable insights, translating findings into clear, concise business recommendations.
• Support the creation of dynamic dashboards, visualizations, and reports using Power BI.
• Collaborate with business stakeholders to gather requirements, identify key business needs, and ensure accuracy while resolving ambiguity.
• Partner with the BI modeling and reporting teams to recommend improvements to techniques, offerings and operations.
• Ensure data systems and tools are intuitive and accessible to users with varying levels of data expertise.

Business Partnership:

• Act as a trusted advisor to business stakeholders, facilitating collaboration with the BI team and ensuring their needs are understood and met through effective BI solutions.
• Consult with functional teams (e.g. sales, marketing, finance, HR, customer success) to understand their business challenges, identify data and dashboard solutions, and prioritize high-value opportunities.
• Enhance communication strategies by keeping stakeholders aware of project status, promoting achievements and setting up QBRs to showcase recent deliverables.
• Promote knowledge sharing and best practices across teams to leverage the BI platform and data throughout the organization.

Continuous Improvement:

• Define, monitor and report on key performance indicators (KPIs) to measure the impact and success of BI initiatives.
• Stay updated with the latest trends and technologies in data analytics, assessing their potential application within the BI team and organization.
• Continuously evaluate and improve BI processes, methodologies, and tools to enhance efficiency and effectiveness.
• Lead efforts to evaluate new tools and techniques that could provide significant business value.