Business Analyst (Business Intelligence)

Sword is a leading provider of business technology solutions within the Energy, Public and Finance Sectors, driving transformational change within our clients. We use proven technology, specialist teams and domain expertise to build solid technical foundations across platforms, data, and business applications. We have a passion for using technology to solve business problems, working in partnership with our clients to help in achieving their goals.

The role will involve working collaboratively with stakeholders to gather requirements, analyze data, and deliver insightful solutions that enhance decision-making processes.

This role can be undertaken on a remote basis with potential occasional travel to any of our offices across the UK.

About the role:

• Engage with business stakeholders and SME's to capture and agree reporting and analytics requirements and provide guidance to the BI Development team.
• Collaborating with cross-functional teams to define business intelligence needs and objectives.
• Developing and documenting business requirements for BI solutions.
• Analyzing data and generating meaningful reports that support strategic decisions.
• Utilizing BI tools to visualize data and present findings to stakeholders.
• Identifying opportunities for process improvements through data analysis.
• Ensure consistent use of standard business terminology and data sources.

Requirements

To be successful in this role, you should have:

• Experience as a Business Analyst with demonstrable experience delivering solutions around Business Intelligence.
• Strong analytical skills with the ability to interpret complex data set.
• Experience in SQL for data extraction and manipulation.
• Strong analytical, conceptual, and problem-solving abilities.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills.
• Ability to translate business requirements into uses cases in ADO (with descriptions, acceptance criteria, functional and non-functional requirements).
• Excellent communication skills with the ability to present data-driven insights to non-technical audiences.
• An ability to present visualisations/reports in a business context to business stakeholders.

Benefits

At Sword, our core values and culture are based on caring about our people, investing in training and career development and building inclusive teams where we are all encouraged to contribute to achieve success.

We offer comprehensive benefits designed to support your professional development and enhance your overall quality of life. In addition to a Competitive Salary, here's what you can expect as part of our benefits package:

Personalised Career Development: We create a development plan customised to your goals and aspirations, with a range of learning and development opportunities within a culture that encourages growth.

Flexible working: Flexible work arrangements to support your work-life balance. We cant promise to always be able to meet every request, however are keen to discuss your individual preferences to make it work where we can.

A Fantastic Benefits Package: This includes generous annual leave allowance, enhanced family friendly benefits, pension scheme, access to private health, well-being, and insurance schemes, an employee assistance programme, discounted cash plan and more..

At Sword we are dedicated to fostering a diverse and inclusive workplace and are proud to be an equal opportunities employer, ensuring that all applicants receive fair and equal consideration for employment, regardless of whether they meet every requirement. If you dont tick all the boxes but feel you have some of the relevant skills and experience were looking for, please do consider applying and highlight your transferable skills and experience. We embrace diversity in all its forms, valuing individuals regardless of age, disability, gender identity or reassignment, marital or civil partner status, pregnancy or maternity status, race, colour, nationality, ethnic or national origin, religion or belief, sex or sexual orientation. Your perspective and potential are important to us.

If we can do anything to help make the hiring process more accessible, please let our talent acquisition team know when you apply so we can support any adjustments.

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