Senior BI Analyst at Progressive Edge

• The Business Intelligence Analyst plays two distinct roles: that of business analyst, responsible for translating Business Intelligence requirements into high-quality technical implementations; and that of data analyst, where they are expert users of BI tools and data.
• Through systematic and methodical investigation, analysis and communication, the BIA takes responsibility for ensuring the timeous delivery of practical, effective Business Intelligence solutions. They also use their understanding of business processes, expertise in analysis tools and a thorough knowledge of the Business Intelligence data offering to answer business questions.

The Business Intelligence Analyst would:

• Act as a bridge between the business users and the IT development team.
• Analyse and understand the current business environment, current business strategies and also current trends in the industry.
• Conduct impact analysis to identify all affected interfaces by new systems or change to existing systems.
• Assess business cases, feasibility and risk, considering underlying business architecture.
• Liaise with business on regular basis to co-ordinate initiatives, provide feedback, highlight risks and discuss issues.
• Create report specifications, wireframes and functional requirements for new applications and major changes to existing applications.
• Test and validate solutions delivered by the technical team and provide input once the solution is ready for testing (user acceptance testing).
• Resolve user queries timeously and effectively.
• Provide new insights to business on an ad hoc basis.

Qualifications:

• Degree
• Advanced BA certification, CBAP, AAC or similar preferred
• Experience in BI tools
• Background in MS BI environments, SQL etc.