Business Analyst job in Granada at NGA Human Resources

Business Analyst

Main Responsibilities:

• Understand and manage P&L infrastructure and analysis for International Business – working with Finance and Commercial Operations to define, build and improve P&L management systems.
• Translate business needs into technical specifications and work with the Business Intelligence Team to develop reports and dashboards in Power Bi
• Coordinate the implementation of reports and visuals requested on an ad-hoc basis
• Understand and analyze business KPIs to determine areas for improvement
• Model data and metadata to support ad-hoc and pre-built reporting
• Work with the BI Team to design, development, and maintenance of ongoing reports, dashboards and analysis in order to drive key business decisions.
• Partner closely with Commercial Business Partner and Finance Manager to address business needs for insights and analytics
• Drive improvement on data ingestion, transformation and publication to ensure confidence in the systems we build.
• Recognize and adopt best practices in reporting and analysis: data integrity, test design, analysis, validation, and documentation
• Generate P&L forecasts from historic data using the appropriate methodologies and software to visualize the results 
• Perform quantitative and qualitative analysis of P&L results and forecasting and suggest actions for improvement
• Work with the BI team to automate existing excel reports with Power Bi
• Be the champion of business analytics and the use of existing reporting tools, specifically Power Bi
• Detect areas where there is lack of knowledge and develop training to address those needs.
• Document guidelines and procedures to consume existing Power Bi reports/dashboard

Skills required:

• Fluent in English
• Proven analytical skills (able to perform Trend Analysis, Root Cause Analysis, and other statistical analysis)
• Strong knowledge of MS-Power BI
• Good interpersonal skills, proper written and verbal communication skills. Must have the ability to present his/her work to senior business leaders
• Must have a positive attitude to work with key Business Leaders and to be able to provide and receive feedback as a key element for continuous improvement
• Proactive, with the ability to work independently (i.e. under little supervision) and driven by project results
• Creative and innovative, oriented to generate new ideas for improvement
• Must have the ability to handle large amounts of work, focused on finding solutions
• Must have the ability to handle short-notice requests and quick turnarounds with a positive attitude
• Must be a well-organized professional (well structured)
• Must have a good knowledge of working on a project environment – e.g. with defined timelines, scope and limited resources

Knowledge and Experience required:

• Academic background in business, finance, engineering or similar
• Must have experience working with operations dashboards and databases
• 1+ years of experience working with MS-Power BI.
• Advanced knowledge of MS-Excel and MS-Powerpoint
• Must understand business intelligence concepts and how to provide business insights
• Knowledge of statistics, forecasting and trend analysis is desired
• Knowledge/work experience with salesforce.com is a plus
• Project Management knowledge/certification is a plus
• Experience in Sales, Finance and/or Operations is an advantage