Business Intelligence; BI) Analyst

• Finance

The Business Intelligence Analyst serves as a data analytics expert within the Gift Processing &Analytics (GP&A) team, providing data-driven insights, reporting, and decision support to advance fundraising, financial, and strategic priorities. This role is responsible for understanding business needs, translating them into actionable analytics solutions, and driving the adoption and effective use of data across the department.

The ideal candidate brings 5+ years of experience in business intelligence, analytics, financial planning, reporting, or a related field, with strong experience developing dashboards and reporting solutions in Power BI. The role works closely with business stakeholders and partners with IT and data teams as needed to ensure high-quality data, scalable solutions, and effective analytics capabilities.

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What will you do as a BI Analyst

• Serve as GP&A's business intelligence and analytics lead, providing data-driven insights that support fundraising, financial, operational, and strategic decision-making.
• Partner directly with business stakeholders to understand priorities and translate business needs into meaningful reports, dashboards, KPIs, scorecards, and analytical solutions.
• Develop, enhance, and maintain Power BI dashboards, scorecards, and self-service reporting tools that enable effective performance management and decision-making.
• Analyze complex business data to identify trends, risks, opportunities, and actionable insights for leadership and key stakeholders.
• Design and maintain data models that integrate information across fundraising, finance, budgeting, and other relevant business systems.
• Develop reporting and analytics solutions that improve visibility into business performance, planning, forecasting, and outcomes.
• Drive reporting automation, standardization, and process improvements to increase efficiency, scalability, and consistency across GP&A.
• Validate BI outputs against source data, resolve discrepancies, and maintain supporting business logic documentation.
• Establish and maintain reporting standards, definitions, KPIs, and documentation to promote consistent interpretation and use of data.
• Partner with IT, and other technical teams as needed to support data availability, integration, governance, and reporting requirements.
• Act as a business-facing subject matter expert on analytics and business intelligence, helping stakeholders understand and effectively leverage data.
• Promote adoption of analytics and self-service reporting by providing guidance, training, documentation, and ongoing support to business users.
• Translate analytical findings into clear business narratives and recommendations that enable leadership to make informed decisions.
• Continuously identify opportunities to improve reporting capabilities, data accessibility, analytical processes, and the overall use of data across GP&A.

What qualifications are required to be our Business Intelligence Analyst

• 5+ years of experience in business intelligence, data analytics, financial analytics, reporting, or a related field.
• Strong experience developing and maintaining Power BI dashboards and reporting solutions.
• Demonstrated ability to translate complex business requirements into practical analytics and reporting solutions, including data modeling, data transformation, publishing, refresh management, and performance optimization
• Strong understanding of data…