London
Salary Range: £52,000 - £57,000 DOE + up to 6% bonus depending on company performance
Hybrid Working: hybrid working pattern of two days office based/three days home based (or fully office based if preferred). Allocated office days are: Wednesday and Thursdays
Flexible Fridays: take Friday afternoon off by working an additional 3 hours and 45 minutes earlier in the week.
Main purpose of the role
In partnership with the company's Sales and Finance teams and other business units, the BI Systems Manager is responsible for the development, delivery and support of Data, BI and Analytics solutions that provide actionable and meaningful insights for managing the business's performance. The role works closely with Finance to support budgeting and forecasting.
Key Responsibilities
This a hands-on role, managing a small team who are together responsible for:
- The support, development and ongoing management of data analytics and Business Intelligence (BI) tools and capabilities; principally IBM Cognos Analytics
- The support, development and ongoing management of the company budgeting and forecasting tools; principally IBM Planning Analytics
- Proactive engagement with stakeholders to understand and meet requirements with respect to these systems, or the implementation of any new tools to achieve goals
- Provide technical expertise and leadership on data visualisation and self-serve reporting
- Providing training for business users of these systems
- Scoping, developing, testing and maintaining reports from our data warehouse; managing change requests to sales reporting and ensuring accuracy
- Bridging between Finance, Data, Publishing Systems (Biblio3) and the business
- Coordinating with third party vendors and developers to ensure that the systems are up to date and that users are aware of new/changed functionality
- Coordinating - directly or via relationship owner - with data providers (distributors) to ensure efficient and timely reporting
- In conjunction with the Applications Support team, managing the BAU tickets related to these systems, ensuring that issues are resolved consistently and efficiently
The BI Systems Manager has overarching responsibility for setting the team's programme of work; scheduling and overseeing tasks; ensuring the quality of Project artefacts; providing leadership and guidance to the team and stakeholders in general; and reporting on progress, issues and achievements to the Head of Business Systems.
The BI Systems Manager is also the Business Systems Department's lead on the evaluation and reconciliation of sales data and sales reporting processes with respect to acquisitions and divestments that the company may undertake.
Person specification - Knowledge, qualifications and experience
Proven industry experience with data engineering and business intelligence, data discovery, metric/dashboard definition or creation, and transforming data to meet business needs
Excellent communication skills, and an ability to work with senior management and also respond to user queries
Exposure to or experience with using SQL to design and create various types of data schemas for various needs (discovery, ad-hoc analyses, operational reporting, data warehouse/data marts)
Experience with IBM suite (Planning Analytics and Cognos Analytics) or similar enterprise-level BI software
Experience of working with Finance systems and a working knowledge of FS terminology