Business Data Analyst

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Equans is looking for a 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.

• Develop and design action‑driven data 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 and advise on system requirements for the future
• Research techniques and methods in the industry to ensure that the business keeps pace with developments in data science

• 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

• 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

• 24 days increasing to 25 days after 2 year service (+ 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
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Holiday purchase scheme
• 2 corporate social responsibility days per year
• Broad range of learning opportunities, such as professional qualifications, collective/individual training, and personalised 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 a mental wellbeing app

• 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 BI 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 BI 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 datasets for analysis and…