A Business Intelligence Business Analyst, sometimes referred to as a Decision Support analyst, Systems Analyst or Business Systems analyst, will typically be a client facing role. You will be using your technical skills and business acumen to work closely with business users to understand their changing requirements. These requirements need to be communicated to a technical team for implementation. In short a Business Intelligence Business Analyst acts as a bridge or conduit between the business and IT.
Business Analysts are often involved from project inception and may be involved in report design through to data delivery. They provide strategic, analytical and technical support in all business intelligence activities and use their business acumen and technical knowledge to help develop and deliver Business Intelligence solutions for their customers, providing the tools and services for executives to make strategic decisions.
Depending on experience, they may also provide strategic and tactical input to the development and maintenance of the Business Intelligence infrastructure, including the Data Warehouse and reporting applications. There may be a focus on reporting and dashboard requirements, addressing performance issues and discussing with business users the kind of data they want to report on. They will also help to develop standards for best practices for reporting, as well as market and educate the company on available reporting tools in the company.
Key qualities
The Business Intelligence Business Analyst is normally a well-rounded top performer, a key contributor, a creative self starter, an individual with a combination of both strong business understanding and strong technical ability. This is required to help develop solutions that meet rapidly evolving business needs. A strong ability to define business requirements by working closely with the business to understand their information needs is required. The Business Intelligence Business Analystalso ensures the solutions developed and delivered are an excellent fit to the business needs.
They should be able to conduct research, have excellent problem solving and analytical skills, combined with strong business acumen. Specifically for Business Intelligence, an excitement for analyzing large and complex data sets and converting them into information which drives business decisions is also a bonus.
Database development and query knowledge helps as does experience with front end reporting tools such as Business Objects, Cognos, QlikView, Tableau, and Oracle and other industrial reporting and analysis platforms.
An analyst should consistently deliver quality outputs in often high paced and dynamic environments and have an ability to work to tight deadlines.
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