Business Intelligence Officer

A well-known and innovative university based in London is seeking to recruit a Business Intelligence Officer on a permanent basis to join the Planning team at an exciting time of change and development within the organisation. This is a hybrid role with 3 days on site per week in London. The role is ideal for someone looking to utilise on their current Business Intelligence skills and work on a number of interesting brand new projects to further build on their experience and expertise. The role offers the opportunity for someone with mid-level experience to grow and develop themselves. Working as part of a small and supportive team, this is an ideal role for someone who wants to own the work they do and have autonomy in the work they deliver, being the expert in their field across the university.

The main purpose of the Business Intelligence Officer will be to:

• Lead on the development, deployment and maintenance of robust, accurate, high quality and user-friendly business intelligence dashboards.
• Contribute to the scoping of the dashboards across operational and strategic level activities ensuring they continue to meet the evolving needs of the business, regulatory and statutory requirements.
• Develop standardised business intelligence dashboards using agreed templates and data definitions for use by large numbers of end users across the University.

Essential Skills -

• You will have strong experience with creating dashboards ideally in PowerBI
• Understanding of the metrics around creating data (data metrics)
• Data Governance understanding
• GDPR familiarity
• Experience of the student lifecycle in a university
• Excellent experience with liaising and gathering requirements with acting as the "middle person" when engaging with stakeholders who are non-technical and being able to translate those requirements back to the Technology team
• Experience of being able to work on multiple projects at any one time
• Self-starter who is able to work on their own to tight deadlines
• Someone who is confident in speaking and challenging requirements, is self-motivated and uses initiative when making decisions

Ideally you will have experience with PowerBI though experience of other Business Intelligence tools is also acceptable.

There are a number of key duties and responsibilities that the role will encompass -

• Work directly with non-technical users to define their business requirements and translate them into technical designs that meet internal customer specifications, taking account of performance and maintenance issues.

• Support the IT Team to design, construct, test, deploy and optimise dashboards and reports, taking the lead on end-to-end development.

• Support the IT team to develop effective, visually stimulating application user interfaces to support strategic decision-making, and prioritise work in alignment with the University's strategic priorities.

• Support, manage and operate in accordance with the PowerBI Governance Process.

• Develop an in-depth understanding of the underlying data, data model and university's business domains to ensure reports meet user needs.

• Collaborate with technical teams on the development of the data platform, ensuring that the data models align with business needs and address user requirements.

• Analyse stakeholder feedback, implementing and reviewing service provision and institution-wide BI design standards to deliver continuous improvement.

• Perform data cleansing and data preparation and create datasets and analytical layer views to meet MI requirements.

• Support the design, implementation and monitoring of policy and quality standards, procedures and systems for management information dashboards.

• Provide documentation, technical expertise and training support on processes and procedures.

• Implement processes to manage the integrity and security of all commercially and professionally sensitive and personal data in MI products produced and comply with principles and best practice of GDPR.

• Deliver training and create training materials such as reference guides and videos for stakeholders to support their usage of MI products.

If interested in this role, please apply today. Interviews will take place on Wednesday 03rd April on site at the university.