About the role
Reporting to the Business Intelligence Solutions Manager for Asia Pacific, this role will manage a diversified series of projects, assist application development teams in adopting new technology, and plan ongoing maintenance and enhancements for existing systems and frameworks. This is a 1-year contract position.
What you will be doing
• Apply and adapt Project Management best practices: project scoping, planning strategies, milestones and schedules definition, reporting of project status, issue tracking, change control.
• Create and manage BI and analytics solutions that turn data into information supporting decision making: gather, analyze, and document reporting functional and technical requirements.
• Work closely with business stakeholders to make sure data definitions and technical logic specifications align with business requirements.
• Oversee test plan, test cases and test scripts.
• Perform data extractions via SQL and present findings to stakeholders.
• Analyze production problems, realize / recommend data correction.
• Support remote BI users on training and best practices on BI tools, where to find data.
• Maintain user guides and release notes up to date.
The successful candidate
Essential
• At least 3 years experience in Business Intelligence project management (Waterfall and Agile)
• Working experience with any of the following BI tools (ordered by preference): Tableau, Power BI, IBM Cognos Analytics, IBM Planning Analytics, Business Object, Qlikview
• Good knowledge of relational and multidimensional data models (star schemas, cubes)
• Strong skills with SQL (preferably T-SQL)
• Basic knowledge of financial reporting (P&L, BS, CF)
• Good written and spoken English
• Must be able to work collaboratively with cross-functional teams to analyze and understand business needs in order to translate them into report/ dashboard specifications and deliverable solutions
• Self-starter with ability to work independently with minimal supervision and manage own workload
• Proactive, able to suggest improvements of processes, systems, code... and prioritize them
Desirable
• Strong customer focused, team-oriented communication skills with emphasis on building lasting, trusted partnerships through written and verbal communications
• Experience with / knowledge of at least one of the functional areas: finance management, customer relationships and sales, freight forwarding or logistics operations
• Experience with / knowledge of finance (non-banking), transportation or logistics domains
• Experience with / understanding of OLAP solutions and MDX (TM1 especially)
• Willing to work with and learn new technologies
