BI & Performance Reporting Developer

Job Title: BI & Performance Reporting Developer

Salary: Competitive + Benefits

Location: Hybrid working, home & UK travel, as & when required (1-2 times per quarter)

Working Hours: Monday - Friday 40 hours per week

Job Status: Permanent

Hi We're cinch, a fresh kind of service that makes life easier for motorists. We know what drivers want, so we've ripped up the rule book to make sure they get it, faff-free

Our mission
– It's simple, to take out all the irritations and hold-ups that make changing cars trickier than it needs to be.

With backing from a large multinational company, this is a very unique opportunity to join a start-up in the early stages of our growth and to join a brand that you'll be proud to have played a key part in building.

You
– So, do you have a faff-free filter? Do you want to work in an energetic team, with open-mindedness and passion? We're looking for people who are agile, full of ideas and want to challenge the norm.

The
BI & Performance Reporting team
play a key role within the cinch Technology function, ensuring that trends, metrics and KPIs are available to a wide range of stakeholders to enable data-led business decisions.

The successful candidate will have a passion for providing data & insight through effective data modelling and data visualisation with the following core objectives;

Develop and maintain best-in-class BI solutions & capabilities that support all key business areas.

Collaborate with a wide range of technical and non-technical colleagues and stakeholders to help to bring data to life; ensuring colleagues have access to, and are empowered by, clear and tangible BI products.

what you'll be working on

• Designing and developing BI solutions (reports, dashboards, apps, shared semantic models etc), predominantly using Power BI, to fulfil stakeholder requirements.
• Maintaining, monitoring and optimising BI solutions to ensure the credibility and integrity of the teams' output, actioning bug fixes and opportunities for cost/time savings.
• Working alongside technical colleagues to build and uphold consistent data models within our cinch Data Warehouse, applying agreed business logic to complex data sources to cost-effectively translate data into reliable, scalable, and defensible data products.
• Building strong, open & trusting working relationships with key stakeholders, working with them to ensure BI & performance reporting at cinch is delivered in-line with requirements, enabling others to leverage the value of cinch's data.
• Supporting non-technical colleagues across the business with information, guidance & training to make use of our BI solutions.
• Identifying opportunities to improve productivity by automating manual data processes.
• Constantly reviewing the strategic platform positioning to ensure BI solutions remain valuable, available & empowering.
• Regularly reviewing the output of your own & your peers' work, ensuring high quality, adherence to best practice & punctual delivery of outputs - striving for excellence to maximise value to the team's customers.
• Coaching, mentoring and gatekeeping BI development from colleagues outside of the BI & Performance Reporting team.
• Undertaking root cause analysis and assessments when service issues arise, making recommendations to mitigate future re-occurrence.
• Advocating for BI & data-driven decision making across cinch, championing and facilitating data democratisation across the organisation.
• Staying abreast of industry trends and best practices in the use of data and advanced BI methods and sharing knowledge acquired to drive continuous improvement.

skills and expertise

• You'll be an experienced BI & Performance Reporting Developer, with at least 3+ years of BI/MI development experience.
• You have demonstrable hands-on experience building automated reports, dashboards, apps and shared semantic models using Power BI (or similar BI Tools).
• You can showcase strong SQL skills – this is required as the primary means of modelling and querying data from the cinch Data Warehouse.
• You can demonstrate effective stakeholder management, building strong working relationships with all levels of seniority to qualify requirements and deliver MI/BI across fast paced environments.
• You can proactively and autonomously manage your time and prioritise workloads effectively - you can plan forward to ensure that business expectations and objectives can be managed and met.
• As a self-starter, you enjoy solving problems. You can take initiative with minimal supervision or guidance and are able to work effectively both independently and as a member of a cross functional team.
• You have a keen eye for detail, testing your work to ensure that outputs remain accurate and reliable.

Beneficial but not essential:

• Automotive market knowledge would be valuable but not a pre-requisite.
• Experience of using Snowflake & dbt to query and transform data to build models.
• Experience of using JIRA or other workload management tools.
• Knowledge of data warehousing best practice.
• Experience in Agile/Sprint/Kanban methodologies and ways of working, contributing to regular team ceremonies (sprints, retros etc)

cinch and Rewards

cinch's benefits programme sees that our people are supported both in and out of work. That's what a faff-free life is all about. We offer:

• Competitive salaries and bonuses
• A company pension scheme
• Private Healthcare (Bupa)
• An Employee Assistance Programme
• Access to trained mental health first aiders
• Enhanced maternity, paternity, and adoption leave

And so much more

cinch and you

In making the most out of a career at cinch you need to be curious, creative, and collaborative. See, we are putting you in the driver's seat, in control of your career and ready to drive your own development. There's no bureaucracy, no hierarchy, just an environment with values that bring us together and a purpose that sets us apart. Join us as we continue to accelerate, defy expectations, and revolutionise an entire industry

Diversity and Inclusion

cinch wants to help all kinds of people in the UK find and buy a car. So it makes good sense to have all kinds of people working with us on the challenge. Conversations and the decisions they lead to are better for featuring different voices. Representation matters.

And doing your job while not being your authentic self is not faff-free. Being free to be the best of who you are as you soar to professional greatness is the kind of business we commit to creating, as one.