Business Intelligence Analyst

Business Intelligence Analyst Reading Full Time & Permanent Competitive Salary + Comprehensive Benefits

The Business Intelligence (BI) Analyst plays a key role in enabling a data driven culture across the organisation. The role ensures colleagues have access to trusted, timely, and actionable insights by developing high quality reporting, intuitive visual dashboards, and scalable self service capabilities. This role transforms complex data into clear stories that support faster, better decisions at scale.

Key Responsibilities

• Deliver trusted reporting and decision support
  • Develop high quality reports, dashboards and analysis to help the organisation monitor performance and make better decisions.
  • Ensure BI outputs are reliable, consistent and aligned to agreed definitions, enabling a single version of the truth.
  • Proactively identify insights that highlight risks, opportunities and performance improving actions.
  • Assist with adhoc requests from internal customers, understanding the business need and developing requirements.
• Build intuitive data visualisation and self service tools
  • Create user friendly BI products in Power BI (and emerging tools as the analytics stack evolves) that simplify complex information for non technical audiences.
  • Support the business in developing self service behaviours.
  • Champion visual and analytical best practice.
  • Collaborate with Data Platform teams to ensure datasets used for reporting are accurate, well structured and optimised for analysis.
  • Ensure data integrity and data security across all reporting and adhere to the principles of Data Governance.
• Enhance data accessibility and quality
• Partner with stakeholders to unlock value
  • Work closely with operational, commercial, finance and clinical teams to understand their decision needs and translate them into BI solutions.
  • Provide clear, actionable recommendations that improve performance, reduce risk or create commercial value.
  • Support colleagues in using BI tools effectively, including training on reporting platforms.
  • Support a variety of projects impacting different areas of the business.
• Contribute to BI and organisational capability uplift
  • Support the transition of reporting and analytics towards tools such as Power BI and Fabric.
  • Share knowledge, coach colleagues and contribute to standards that increase consistency, reusability and efficiency across analytics.
  • As the Decision Analytics & Strategy function continues to mature, responsibilities and focus areas may evolve. The post holder is expected to remain flexible and contribute to the ongoing development of BI and wider analytics capabilities.

Skills and Experience

• Experience in a BI, analytics or reporting role.
• Strong skills in Power BI (data modelling, DAX, visualisation best practice).
• Ability to translate business questions into analytical solutions.
• Appreciation of data warehouse design, including use of Fabric, as well as knowledge of SAP BW.
• Excellent communication skills, able to simplify complexity for non technical audiences.
• High attention to detail and commitment to data quality.
• Comfortable working with stakeholders at all levels.
• Excellent PC skills and high standard of skill within data manipulation and reporting.
• Experience using all Microsoft Office products but with Advanced Skills in Excel.
• Knowledge of SAP Business Objects.
• Experience within healthcare.
• Experience with commercial analytics or operational performance contexts.
• Educated to degree standard, or equivalent.
• Although the role is based in Reading there is some opportunity to work from home. There may also be a requirement to travel to other Spire locations throughout the country.

Benefits

• 35 days annual leave inclusive of bank holidays
• Employer and employee contributory pension with flexible retirement options
• Spire for you' reward platform - discount and cashback for over 1000 retailers
• Free Bupa wellness screening
• Private medical insurance
• Life assurance
• Free onsite parking

Spire Healthcare is proud to be an equal opportunities employer. We celebrate diversity and are committed to creating an inclusive culture for all.