Business Analyst

Business Analyst

• Location: Plymouth
• Job Type: Full time
• Salary: Negotiable DOE

Join my clients team as a Business Analyst and support data-driven decision making across the business. This role involves producing insightful analysis, building dashboards, ensuring data integrity, and identifying issues and opportunities within operational processes.

Day-to-Day of the Role:

• Design, build, and maintain dashboards and reports (primarily in Power BI) to provide clear, actionable insights for stakeholders.
• Query and manipulate data using SQL to support analysis, investigations, and reporting needs.
• Conduct deep-dive analysis to identify trends, issues, and opportunities, providing meaningful recommendations to support informed decision-making.
• Ensure high standards of data integrity within the department by validating data, identifying inconsistencies, and recommending or implementing corrective actions.
• Analyse and document business processes, ensuring an understanding of how data flows through systems and how processes impact performance.
• Identify data or process issues, investigate root causes, and propose practical, data-driven solutions.
• Communicate insights clearly through storytelling, visualisation, and well-structured analysis.
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams to understand information needs and translate them into analytical outputs.

Required Skills & Qualifications:

• SQL proficiency, with experience querying, joining, and transforming data.
• Strong Power BI skills, including data modelling and report/dashboard creation.
• Experience with DAX, Power Query, and advanced Excel techniques.
• Ability to understand and map business processes, identifying gaps and opportunities for improvement.
• Strong analytical skills with the ability to interpret data, identify patterns, and draw meaningful conclusions.
• Excellent attention to detail with a commitment to data accuracy and quality.
• Ability to communicate insights effectively.
• Experience working with large datasets or within a data-focused environment is a bonus.

Education & Qualifications:

• Degree in a business-related subject (e.g., Business Analytics, Business Management, Economics or similar).

Personal Attributes:

• High attention to detail and a structured approach to problem-solving.
• Curious, analytical mindset with a passion for understanding data.
• Strong stakeholder communication and interpersonal skills.
• Proactive and able to take ownership of issues from identification to resolution.
• Adaptable, collaborative, and comfortable working in a fast-paced environment.