BI Business Consultant

Job Description

Role title: BI Business Consultant

Role Type: Permanent

Function: Group Technology

Location: Edinburgh (with blended home working)

Reports to: Technology Delivery Manager

At abrdn we empower our clients to plan, save and invest for their futures.

Through the expertise, insight and innovation of our team, we aim to help clients create more ways for money to make an impact. We set our sights on giving them more confidence to achieve their goals, and more clarity about what they need next. And we focus on delivering outcomes that are more than just financial - by investing sustainably to build a better world.

About the department

Group Technology’s key function is to provide global technology services that, when combined with the intellectual capital within abrdn, create value for our clients. We achieve this by developing and maintaining a technology strategy and architecture that is aligned to the company’s operating model, and designed in such a way to enable the implementation of business strategy.

Group Technology also contains the capabilities necessary to execute against that strategy, to provide robust and appropriate solutions. All of this is achieved within a context of positive assurance ensuring activities are conducted in line with standards, policies and commercial targets.

About the role

This lead role sits within the Business Intelligence (Enterprise Solutions) area of Group Tech and is aligned closely to the Investment business.

It is part of the business fabric dealing with a wide range of stakeholders within the department and the wider abrdn Operations team.

Working closely with the Business Intelligence Delivery Manager, the role:
- is accountable for business partnering in the delivery of the Business Intelligence service.- will entail providing consultancy to the business on how best to use BI, general BI requests and dedicated project work ensuring delivery of a high quality service.- work closely with the wider BI team and other ITS teams to deliver a BI service to the business.- will provide training to the business on self-service and BI development- will be expected to keep abreast of new technologies and developments within Business Intelligence and related areas of interest.

Skills and Experience-
- Excellent verbal and written communication skills- Good business analysis skills- Good problem solving and analytical skills- Experience of working in an Investment/Asset Management environment- Strong influencing & communication skills- Strong SQL skills- Good understanding of data warehouse design- Hands on experience in delivering BI via one or more BI platforms

Desirable- Prior experience as BI project lead- Experience in reporting financial information, dealing with complex data- Data modelling experience- Experience in enabling self-service BI users- Experience in one or more of the following tools Power BI, Tableau, SRRS, OBIEE- Experience in delivering BI using Snowflake- Working with an offshore team

Core Skills- BI solution design- Technical & User documentation- Time & Priority management- Influencing & Communication Skills

Our Benefits

There's more to working life than coming home with a good salary. We have an environment where you can learn, get involved and be supported.

When you join us, your reward will be one of the best around, including 40 days annual leave, a 16% employer pension contribution, a discretionary performance based bonus (where applicable), private healthcare and a range of flexible benefits including gym discounts, season ticket loans and access to an employee discount site amongst many others. You can read more about our benefits

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How we create value

Our strategic drivers are the foundations from which we deliver for all our stake holders: High Impact Intelligence, Enduring Relationships, Connections without borders and Future fit. You can find out more about our values

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Our Inclusive Culture

We are committed to exploring the possibilities of working smarter. This means we’d like to hear from you, whatever way you like to work.

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We’re committed to providing an inclusive workplace where all forms of difference are valued and which is free from any form of unfair or unlawful treatment. We define diversity in its broadest sense - this includes but is not limited to our diversity of educational and professional backgrounds, experience, cognitive and neurodiversity, age, gender, gender identity, sexual orientation, disability, religion or belief and ethnicity and geographical provenance. We support a culture that values meritocracy, fairness and transparency and welcomes enquiries from everyone.