Qualifications:

 

● 7+ years of hands on experience of data analytics, visualisation and BI solutions

● Professional experience of data analytics project life cycles with proven experience in managing and delivering end to end projects

● Ability to manage team members on technical programmes and coach ‘best practice’ use of relevant D&A tools

 

As a Data Analytics & Reporting Manager, your responsibilities will include:

● Overseeing the design and delivery of data transformation projects with clients. This will include:

● Translating business requirements into technical specifications, helping to understand and create solutions to our clients key challenges.

● Supporting in end-to-end planning, coordination and oversight of the project lifecycle including resourcing, scoping, architecting and delivery.

● Participate in client relationships including with C-level staff, Heads of Data and Analytics, IT and Data Architects and other business stakeholders during the lifecycle of a project.

● Participate in supporting clients in developing their future plans and strategies for data.

● Engage in collaborating with our wider Technology, Data and Analytics teams across the firm, whether that be locally or working with our alternative delivery teams (onshore and offshore).

● Taking an active role in coaching and developing skills in the team.

● Participate in leading initiatives to grow our business through the creation of new innovative solutions and propositions as well as relevant thought leadership.

● Promoting opportunities to enhance, disrupt and improve the way we work through the use of technology.

● Working to increase awareness of our Technology, Data & Analytics capabilities across our business and collaborating with a varied set of teams within the firm.

 

Data processing, reporting and visualisation:

● Analysis of business functionality and needs, translating them into technical requirements and solution designs

● Ability to design and implement data models from concept through to reality, which could include slowly changing dimensions or single customer views

● Creation of relational data models based on reporting requirements and raw base data

● Designing optimised and well functioning business intelligence solutions for different business purposes (preferably Power BI but will consider other visualisation tools)

● Standard approaches for data cleansing and ensuring data quality

● Identification and definition of rules within an ETL process to harmonise, aggregate, filter and transform data so that it can be used for defined reporting goals

● Principles of information design to optimise information processing by readers/viewers

 

Analytics:

● Strong business acumen in relation to analytics, having had experience within at least one business area function (e.g marketing, sales, finance, workforce, procurement etc.)

● Extensive experience in handling large, complex datasets

● Passionate about analytics and insight, including staying up-to-date with the latest trends and technologies

● Strong understanding of machine learning techniques and algorithms or decision science domains (eg. clustering, decision trees, logistic regression, basket analysis, optimisation, simulation) to deliver rapid business insight

● Proven programming experience in one of Python, R, Go, SQL or similar

● Proven experience using Excel

 

D&A consulting:

● Exceptional analytical ability and are able to solve unstructured problems involving large amounts of quantitative data with a structured and hypothesis driven approach

● Experience in adapting your communication style to help translate complex technical information to audiences unfamiliar with the technologies

● Ability to tell a compelling story with data in written reports and deliverables for our clients

● Ability to learn and understand new technologies, techniques and tools

 

Project skills:

● Delivery of proof of concept or operational solutions through the entire lifecycle from data sourcing to results. This includes assessing modelling needs based on client’s situation and recommend the best advanced analytics tools and methods to support them

● Experience in shaping and planning projects through either Waterfall or Agile methodologies

● Experience using Agile project management tools (DevOps, Trello, JIRA, Kanbanchi etc.)

 

Commercial Skills:

● Ability to manage projects to budget, deal with change requests and have commercial discussions with clients, inspiring others to solve problems, under pressure, end-to-end with data

● Ability to align pragmatic analytical solutions to complex business problems.

● Experience in defining and managing benefits cases for analytics solutions.

● Demonstrating commercial curiosity - understand a business area and its strategic outcomes, the business processes and metrics that drive performance

● Experience in owning client relationships and managing them throughout the engagement lifecycle

● Supporting senior management to identify opportunities to embed advanced data and analytics use cases in wider business transformation proposition

 

Education

● University Degree, in computer science/engineering, business analytics, information systems, statistics, mathematics or other related disciplines preferably

● Microsoft Power BI Certification is needed

● Tableau Certification is a plus

● Open Group Certified Architect - Data is a plus

● Celonis certification is a plus

● Alteryx Certification is a plus