BI Business Analyst

We are looking for a BI Business Partner to join our growing Data Team. The BI Business Partner acts as the critical link between the business and the BI development team, ensuring that everything the team builds is grounded ina real business need.

Sitting between our stakeholders across the firm and our BI Developers, this role translates business questions into clear, well-defined requirements, and works with the BI Manager to prioritise the JIRA backlog so the team is always working on what matters most. This is a highly collaborative, stakeholder-facing role suited to someone who can speak the language of both the business and the data team, and who takes ownership of outcomes rather than just outputs.

Our mission is to improve everyone’s relationship with their wealth: to make it a positive force for their future and at the same time to prevent it being a source of anxiety. We want everyone who works at Saltus to be proud to work here, and to find fulfilment and meaning in the work that they do

We are incredibly proud of our culture and work really hardto ensure that Saltus isa great placeto work for our people, where they can have fun and grow in their career, with a passion for excellence and customer service.

We’reproud thatwe’vebeen recognized as a winner by the Sunday Times in the Best Places to Work 2024 awards, as well as a winner in the Professional Adviser awards 2024 for the Best Financial Advisers to Work For. These accolades reflect our commitment to creating an exceptional work environment and our dedication to excellence in the financial industry. Join our award-winning team and be a part of our continued success!

Saltus is a privately owned financial planning and discretionary investment management house. Weare dedicated to providinga high-quality service for private clients, trusts, and smaller institutions.

Saltus Partners was founded in 2004 and has grown organically and through a small number of carefully integrated acquisitions. Originally the business started out as an investment manager and has now developed the financial planning side of the offering, putting this at the forefront of the client relationship.

Today Saltus manages and advises on over £11billionof client assets,acquired through a combination of organic business growth and corporate acquisitions.

• Act as the primary gobetween for business stakeholders and the BI developers, ensuring requirements are clearly understood on both sides.
• Partner with business stakeholders across the firm (e.g. financial planning, operations, compliance) to understand their goals and translate them intowelldefinedBI requirements.
• Challenge and refine incoming requests to ensure the underlying business question is properly understood before development begins, not just the surface-level ask.
• Work closely with the BI Manager to prioritise the JIRA backlog, ensuring tickets are well-scoped, appropriately sequenced, and reflect business value and urgency.
• Own the creation and upkeep of epics,stories and tickets in JIRA, including acceptance criteria, so developers have what they need to build the right solution first time.
• Validate delivered dashboards,reports and data products against the original business question, ensuring genuine business value is delivered not just a technically complete ticket.
• Provide regular visibility to stakeholders on progress,timelinesandtradeoffs, managing expectations proactively.
• Identify recurring themes or gaps in business requests and feed these back into the team’s roadmap and prioritisation discussions.
• Support adoption of delivered BI solutions, gathering feedback and feeding enhancement requests back into the backlog.
• Champion best practice in requirement gathering and backlog management across the wider BI team.
• Degree level qualification (2:1 or higher), ideally in a related field, and around 5 years’ experience in BI development, data analysis, or a similar role.
• Experience in wealth management, asset management, or broader financial services, with an understanding of the industry’s data and reporting needs.
• Proven experience with Power BI dashboards and strong data…