Sr Business Analyst

Looking for a dynamic Business Analyst (BA) to join our BI COE team. This role acts as a crucial bridge between Business and IT translating strategic business needs into effective data solutions. The ideal candidate brings a strong mix of domain understanding analytical thinking and technical acumen with expertise in Power BI and SQL to provide direction and support to our BI development team.

You will play a key role in converting business vision into actionable analytics solutions ensuring that dashboards and insights align with organizational goals and add measurable value.

Job Purpose:

Be an effective bridge between Business and the Data IT team:

• Responsible for transforming complex data into actionable insights that drive business growth
• Establish business needs with function leads and Management teams
• Defining new data collection and analysis processes with IT team
• Assist with data standardization and defining data governance norms
• Ensuring data accuracy and integrity from a business stand point

Responsibilities:

• Have and build adequate knowledge of the Business the routes to market competition organic and in-organic avenues of Growth etc. forefront of industry trends technologies and best practices.
• Understanding the business need behind an initiative. Role also involves looking at the bigger picture and determining how the initiative at hand has an impact on other projects/ programs/ initiatives.
• Act as the primary liaison between business stakeholders and the BI/IT team to gather analyze and document business requirements.
• Work closely with business functions (Sales Finance Delivery Operations) to define KPIs success metrics and reporting needs.
• Guide Power BI developers and SQL engineers by providing business context data definitions and logic validations.
• Ensure delivery of high-quality user-friendly dashboards and insights that drive business outcomes.
• Perform data validation UAT coordination and gap analysis.
• Drive adoption and change management efforts by training business users and ensuring value realization from analytics solutions.
• Contribute to the continuous improvement of BI delivery processes and data governance practices.
• 5 years of experience as a Business Analyst in BI/Data Analytics or related domains.
• Proven ability to work with senior stakeholders across Sales Finance Operations and Delivery functions.
• Strong knowledge of Power BI must be able to review dashboards provide feedback and help refine visualizations.
• Proficient in SQL able to query analyze and guide data modeling or backend logic.
• Experience in Python will be plus
• Strong business acumen and the ability to understand and communicate the why behind data initiatives.
• Excellent communication facilitation and stakeholder management skills.
• Experience with agile/scrum methodology is a plus.

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