Business Intelligence Team Manager

The Business Intelligence Team Manager is a hands-on leadership role within Finance Systems, responsible for leading the Business Intelligence team and helping modernise the firm’s reporting and analytics capability. The role combines people leadership, technical direction, business analysis and service ownership, while championing reporting best practice across the firm’s financial data and wider reporting estate.

Following the implementation of the firm’s new Practice Management System, the successful candidate will help maximise the value of that investment by providing timely, accurate and trusted information. It will also play a key role in the transition from legacy reporting towards a governed, modern Microsoft Fabric and Power BI analytics platform.

• Lead, mentor and develop a team of Power BI developers and reporting analysts, creating clear accountability for delivery and quality.
• Manage team workload, priorities and resources across project delivery, continuous improvement and business-critical reporting support.
• Provide technical leadership and act as the senior escalation point for Power BI, reporting and analytics issues.
• Build strong relationships with Finance, HR, Risk, Practice Groups and other business stakeholders, translating requirements into practical BI solutions.
• Work effectively with data architects, technology teams, vendors and other specialists across the firm.

• Own and maintain the BI delivery roadmap, working with the Head of Finance Systems and key stakeholders to prioritise initiatives the roadmap and shape and implement the BI elements of the firm’s modern Microsoft Fabric and Power BI architecture in collaboration with data architects and platform teams.
• Provide technical direction for scalable Fabric/SQL-based data models and integration of data from Elite 3E, global EDB and other firmwide applications.
• Promote robust development lifecycle practices across Development, UAT and Production environments, including source control, deployment, testing and change management.
• Improve monitoring, performance and reliability across the BI platform and reporting estate.
• Identify appropriate opportunities for automation, self-service analytics, AI-assisted analytics and conversational BI.

• Provide technical ownership and assurance for the firm’s Power BI reporting estate, including dashboards, reports, semantic models and supporting data products.
• Oversee the design, development and deployment of high-quality financial, operational and client reporting, remaining hands-on where appropriate.
• Ensure reporting outputs are accurate, consistent, performant and easy to use.
• Establish clear ownership of business measures, KPI definitions and reusable semantic models to promote a consistent version of the truth.
• Oversee appropriate reporting and data security, including row-level security, object-level security and associated access controls.
• Support the controlled migration and rationalisation of legacy reporting, including SSRS and Excel-based solutions.

• Champion BI governance and standardisation, working with data architects and business owners to ensure clear responsibilities for data, models, measures and reports.
• Define and maintain BI development standards, naming conventions, documentation requirements, report UX standards, security standards and change-control processes.
• Define and maintain agreed data definitions and reporting measures in partnership with relevant business owners.
• Promote documentation, version control, testing, reconciliation and quality assurance as standard development practices.
• Ensure BI investment…