Analyst - Business Intelligence - Manufacturing Firm

JOB DESCRIPTION :

- Establish and maintain a strong working relationship with our key business leaders to support them leverage their business performance globally

- Clearly understand business needs, complexities and impact

- Drive continuous improvement of our IT practices, procedures and supporting tools

- Conduct detailed analyses to identify gaps with business operations and support design and implementation of IT system changes in line with the overall IT strategy of the Materials Group.

- Identify present and opportunities for Business Intelligence solutions and modelling improvements.

- Align with other functions to identify options for solutions delivery.

- Conduct business analysis, needs assessment and preliminary cost benefit analysis.

- Proactively identify opportunities for business system improvements aligned with business strategy.

- Exposure to developing business and/or IT strategy

Perform role as project manager for selected projects (medium sized)

Desired Skills & Experience:

- Experience in leading technical, complex projects is required

- Ability to express complex technical information in a way that non technical groups can understand

- Exposure to the use of technology as a strategic advantage

- Process documentation and continuous improvement

- Ability to facilitate cross functional meetings

- Strong interpersonal skills with the ability to facilitate meetings to an effective conclusion

- Ability to operate independently in most situations

- Experience leading complex projects with responsibility for project team leadership

- Knowledge of structured data, such as entities, classes, hierarchies, relationships and metadata.

- Hands-on experience & knowledge with reporting and BI tools, especially the latest experience on the Oracle OBIEE platform, with the ability to create and understand:-

- Functional requirements including business rules, data sources and processing needed to create the required insight for the organisation

- Prototypes / Mash-ups (Develop ad hoc reports and create and run SQL queries)

- Data profiling of source and target systems

- Conceptual Data Models

QUALIFICATIONS

- BS degree in computer science, engineering or business, MBA a plus

- 8+ years of relevant experience in a business analyst or similar role

- Global work experience required

- PM certification a plus

Finance Specific:

- Understanding and experience with planning and forecasting processes and workflows

- Solid understanding of finance within a manufacturing organisation including performance and profitability modelling (e.g. manufacturing cost allocations), reporting and month close processes

- Knowledge of throughput accounting

- Understanding and experience with customer accounting treatments (Rebates, Discounts, Claims etc)

- Strong financial understanding of country differences linked with finance reporting