Business Data Analyst

Location: Newcastle upon Tyne

Equans is looking for an Business Data Analyst to join our team in Newcastle or Leeds on a permanent basis. This is a full-time role working 37.5 hours per week. On offer is a competitive salary and benefits package.

The role of the Business Data Analyst is to design and develop analytics solutions across the UK Business.  The solutions and service provided, which may require swift, data driven solutions to urgent problems with accuracy, will cover delivery to multiple business functions across a full range of service lines and the output must be easily understood.

As a subject matter expert part of the role will also be increasing the overall analytics capability within the UK business driving best practice in ways of working and assisting others with the use of technology.

What will you deliver?

Develop and design of actionable data driven solutions delivering quantifiable benefits to the business
Have a clear vision for how solutions will deliver benefit, taking stakeholders on a journey and aligning the solution development to a “to-be process” that ensures that value is captured in reality and not just in theory
Work with the business to ensure that data sources are accurate and reliable in order to support analysis work.
Help the business understand what data will be used for in order to advise on system requirements for the future.
Research techniques and methods being used within the industry to ensure that the business is keeping pace with developments regarding data science

Outcome, Results and Key Performance Indicators:

Enable better business understanding through data driven analytics
Allow informed business change and decision support through data modelling and forecasting
Power BI reports created and updates automated
Enable improvements to data quality and integrity

Dimensions of Job:

Supporting all verticals of the UK Business
Data collection, cleansing and transformation using Power Query, python code
Data analysis and interpretation
Data modelling and forecasting
Reporting and visualisation through Power BI dashboards

What can we offer you?

On offer is a competitive salary benefits package, which includes;

24 days increasing to 25 days after 2 year srvice (+ public holidays)
Life Cover equivalent to 1.5 times annual salary
Employee discount shopping schemes on major brands and retailers
Gym membership discounts
Cycle to work scheme
Holiday purchase scheme
2 corporate social responsibility days per year
Broad range of learning opportunities, such as professional qualifications, collective/individual training, and personalized support programmes
Attractive Employee Referral Rewards Scheme
Access to our growing employee networks including Access Ability (representing those with physical and mental disabilities), Encompass (representing the LGBTQ+ community), RISE (representing people from ethnic backgrounds), WOMEN TOGETHER (representing women in Equans), Working Parents, and Young Professionals.
24/7 Employee Assistance Program and access to mental wellbeing app

Who are we looking for?

Ability to lead complex deliveries
Significant knowledge in the application of business intelligence development lifecycle
Broad knowledge and skill in analytical techniques, data technologies and business intelligence tools
Experience managing diverse business intelligence skillsets covering extract, transform, load; data modelling and transformations; data visualisation design; data security and access provisioning; report automation
Excellent planning and organisation skills
Knowledge and experience in multiple data and business intelligence tooling
Strong financial and analytical skills
Ability to build strong relationships at all levels; ability to interface at senior manager level with ease
Skill in developing innovative approaches to problem solving
Strong commercial understanding and awareness including demonstrable business knowledge and insight experience
Passion and drive for improving the business and follow through actions to deliver
Demonstrable experience in a similar analytics role
Ability to drive demonstrable business change through data analysis
Experience taking raw data and creating usable, documented…