Head of Business Reporting

Your new company

This is a newly created role within an exciting and well-established name within a global logistics business. They seek a forward-thinking, creative and confident leader to head up a team of data analysts and lead this newly formed team. The organisation has received large investment in recent years and this is a key, high profile role to grow the business and engage with senior stakeholders.

Your new role

In this role you will provide leadership across the business in terms of data awareness, analytics and reporting. You will support a team to create, deliver and implement business intelligence, data analysis & analytics plans to identify needs and provide data that is accurate, congruent, reliable and in line with overall business objectives and needs.

The successful postholder will be accountable for ensuring compliance guidelines and policies adhere to group standards and work with technical teams to ensure data is provided in actionable format and timelines.

The role is to analyse Business Intelligence data from different sources to inform business and product decisions and be responsible for costing principles and allocation to support pricing framework and decisions, directing responsible teams to apply these appropriately and monitoring compliance.

You will identify operational issues and ensure application of Business Intelligence (BI), data analysis & analytics applications to enhance business decision-making capabilities and manage internal and external data sets and conduct management reporting.

Track escalated issues arising from operations and coordinate with other stakeholders to improve operational capabilities and monitor day to day trends to identify patterns in recorded data and support developing a predictive, Real Time model-based insights for decision-making.

You will need prior experience in managing senior stakeholders to communicate information effectively, conveying technical information to non-technical audiences and design and implement best practices for BI, data warehousing, and data governance and provide inputs that affect the functional area of responsibility.

What you'll need to succeed

To be successful in the role, you will need to be an expert in Power BI and Python and have a number of years' experience in business decision-making, data cleansing and data warehousing.

You will need to be a confident forward thinker and come up with ideas to improve and excel the business reporting function of the business.

Experience in database integrations, data visualisation, Data Protection and Data Privacy Regulations is key to this role.

Experience managing a team of data analysts and ability to manage senior stakeholders is also key for this exciting position.

What you'll get in return

You can expect a competitive salary dependent on experience, which comes with a bonus fixed on performance, pension, healthcare and 25 days' holiday plus bank holidays alongside hybrid working.

What you need to do now

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