The project is part of an Asset Intelligence internal reporting improvement programme, to improve access to data sources and forming a relationship across the data to provide quality business insights and reporting across the company.

The programme identifies existing and new cross functional reporting requirements, including associated data dependencies and looks to migrate existing reports or develop new reports onto a centralised BI platform from where these reports can be flexibly accessed via a PowerBI interface by the business.

To date the majority of requirements and data dependencies have been identified and the development of the BI platform with IT is in progress.

Role
An IT Business Analyst with experience in working with businesses to help develop reports and dashboards is required to support the creation of functional specifications to support this work.

Responsibilities

• Identify areas for improvement, understand business need, specify requirements and implement recommendations for increasing effectiveness of current processes
• Identify and drive agreement of scope with senior stakeholders
• Perform root cause analysis of problems, conduct workshops and work closely with business users in order to identify and translate their needs into functional requirement specifications
• Assist the business stakeholders in prioritising business requirements and defining new business processes
• Produce detailed, high quality and clear documentation
• Work closely with the IT technical team during the implementation phases to ensure common understanding, agreement and effective implementation of projects. Validate the solution delivered and ensure it is fit for business purpose
• Work closely with the Report Development team during the implementation phases to communicate the desired outcome and effective development of reports. Validate each BI report delivered and ensure they are fit for business purpose
• Communicate in a clear and concise fashion to IT and business stakeholders at all levels during the project lifecycle to gain commitment and minimize the level of resistance to change
• Drive deliverables to completion within challenging timelines ensuring collaboration and effective communication with all stakeholders
• Work effectively with stakeholders located both locally and remotely
• Support UAT during all phases of testing to ensure requirements as detailed in the specification document have been delivered and are ready for release
• Work with IT & Business when new functionality is released to production to ensure a smooth transition to the new process. Where necessary devise detailed cut over plans to address potential operational impacts at cutover

• Educated to degree level
• Consulting experience a distinct advantage
• Experience working with stakeholders in a complex organisation or a regulated environment is also desired
• Experience of working in the area of Asset Management with a good knowledge of Asset Management procedures, processes & systems, is preferable
• Experience in working with business and IT teams in defining the functional requirements for reports and dashboards
• Knowledge and experience of PowerBI
• Strong experience in building and maintaining relationships (both internal and external) with strong influencing and negotiation skills.
• Excellent written communication and interpersonal skills.
• Ability to:
  • Work effectively within a team environment
  • Prioritise tasks while remaining focused on goals
  • Secure and compare information from multiple sources to identify business issues, committing to an action after weighing alternative solutions against decision criteria
  • Set high standards, by encouraging others to assume responsibility and accountability for tasks
  • Think outside the box
  • Challenge the ideas of others
  • Drive and manage change
• The commitment and drive to be accountable for, and to deliver against, challenging goals
• Proactive and confident self-starter