BI Functional Analyst
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Functional Analyst Data & Analytics
Mission
The data functional analyst plays a key role in transforming business needs into valuable data-driven solutions. Acting as a bridge between business stakeholders and technical teams, he/she helps shape the data platform capability that enables informed decision-making. The data functional analyst contributes to the design and evolution of our data platform, ensuring that business requirements are translated into robust, scalable, and high-quality data products. As the data landscape evolves, there may be opportunities to participate in the adoption of modern data technologies and cloud-enabled architectures.
Responsibilities
Understand and support business needs
• Collaborate with Business data analysts, business experts, and project stakeholders to understand reporting, analytics, and data requirements.
• Support the refinement and formalization of business needs, ensuring requirements are clearly documented, consistent, and actionable.
• Ensure traceability between business requirements, business rules, and delivered data solutions.
Translate business needs into data solutions
• Produce and maintain functional analyses, business rules, and detailed specifications.
• Collaborate closely with Business data analysts, Business Process Analysts, Data Engineers, IT Analysts, and project teams.
• Prototype and validate business rules with stakeholders.
• Ensure traceability between business requirements, source systems, and delivered solutions.
Design data models and information flows
• Contribute to the functional design of enterprise data warehouse, datamart, and analytical data models.
• Define source-to-target mappings and integration logic.
• Participate in the design of scalable data flows and modern data architectures supporting future business needs.
Ensure data quality and solution reliability
• Analyze and profile operational data sources.
• Identify data quality issues and contribute to their resolution.
• Validate the consistency and integrity of business rules throughout the delivery lifecycle.
• Ensure that delivered solutions meet both business expectations and quality standards.
Support solution validation
• Define and execute functional tests to validate implemented solutions.
• Assist in defining business-oriented access rights and security requirements.
Contribute to project success
• Assess impacts, risks, priorities, and dependencies related to ongoing initiatives.
• Provide functional expertise and recommendations to project managers and delivery leads.
• Contribute to estimating effort, defining scope, and identifying mitigation actions when required.
• Promote continuous improvement in data governance, delivery practices, and stakeholder collaboration.
Key Requirements
• Strong analytical mindset and ability to understand complex business processes + master degree.• Experience in functional analysis within Data, Business Intelligence, or Analytics environments.• Ability to bridge business and technical stakeholders.• Experience working with reporting, data warehousing, and analytical solutions.• Familiarity with data modeling concepts (dimensional modeling, star schema, data integration flows).• Interest in modern data platforms, cloud technologies, and evolving analytics ecosystems is an advantage.• Excellent communication and stakeholder management skills.• Autonomous, proactive, and solution-oriented.
Techno :Erwin data modelling, logistic reporting on SAP S/4HANNA, SAS EG, SAS VA and Power BI
Nice to Have
• Certification or proven experience as Project Manager.• Proven experience in a GRD.• Proven experience in Utilities.• Proven Experience with Exadata.• Proven Experience with SAS Data Integration.
Other Details
This position may include remote work options and is suited for candidates with significant experience in business intelligence and data analytics across various industries.
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