Business Analyst – Data & Analytics

Position Overview

Business Analyst – Data & Analytics / Shared Services / Financial Group Control, Damen Shared Services, Abu Dhabi. Reports to Manager Data Analytics, Full‑time.

Job Purpose: As a Business Analyst at Damen, you play a key role in understanding business needs and translating them into actionable data and reporting solutions. You act as a bridge between business stakeholders and data/IT teams, ensuring that requirements are clearly defined, challenged where needed, and converted into meaningful dashboards, KPIs, and insights that support decision‑making. This role requires strong business understanding, stakeholder engagement, communication skills, and the ability to translate operational needs into structured BI solutions, with a focus on driving data‑driven decision‑making across the organization.

• Develop a strong understanding of business operations and processes.
• Act as a trusted advisor to stakeholders (Finance, Operations, Projects) and proactively challenge business requirements and assumptions to ensure clarity and feasibility.
• Facilitate workshops to define KPIs and reporting needs, and translate them into functional requirements and user stories.
• Align business expectations with data models, dashboards, and reporting solutions, acting as a bridge between business and technical/data teams.
• Support development of Power BI dashboards and reporting solutions, and define and standardize KPIs and reporting frameworks.
• Ensure outputs are business‑relevant, actionable, and aligned with decision‑making needs.
• Drive consistency in KPI definitions and reporting structures, and support data governance initiatives and best practices.
• Support stakeholders in interpreting dashboards and insights, providing guidance and training on data‑driven decision‑making.

• Clear translation of business needs into BI solutions.
• Adoption of standardized KPI frameworks.
• Delivery of business‑relevant dashboards and insights.
• Strong alignment between business stakeholders and data/IT teams.
• Improved data‑driven decision‑making across the organization.

Education: Bachelor’s Degree in Business Administration, Data Analytics, Information Systems, Finance, Engineering, Statistics, Computer Science, or related field.

Experience: 5–8 years in Business Analysis or BI/reporting roles, strong stakeholder management and requirement gathering experience, proven experience translating business needs into data and BI solutions.

Mandatory experience: Project‑based, engineering, manufacturing, or industrial environment; exposure to finance, business control, or operations domains.

Business Knowledge: Strong understanding of project‑based environments and operations; experience working with finance, business control, or operational teams; ability to connect business processes with data and reporting solutions.

Technical

Skills:

Power BI (incl. Star Schema or similar relations), ERP systems (SAP, IFS, Dynamics), understanding of data modelling concepts.

Soft Skills: Strong communication and stakeholder engagement; ability to challenge requirements constructively; ability to translate between business and technical teams; proactive, structured, and solution‑oriented mindset.

Language: Professional proficiency in English, both written and spoken.