GP Strategies Corporation
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gpstrategies.com
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Job Description
Role Purpose
The BI Analyst plays a key role in delivering high-quality analytics, reporting, and data models that support decision-making across GP Strategies’ Corporate Services functions. This role focuses on executing against the organization’s BI strategy—building dashboards, performing data analysis, supporting data modelling work, and ensuring that reliable insights are available to stakeholders.
The ideal candidate brings strong hands-on experience with Power BI, SQL, and data storytelling, along with an understanding of modern data platforms such as Databricks or Microsoft Fabric. This role does not set BI strategy or lead teams but instead delivers the analytics components that bring the BI vision to life.
Key Accountabilities
Analytics & Dashboard Development
- Develop, enhance, and maintain Power BI dashboards and reports used by Corporate Services and other internal teams.
- Translate business requirements into clear and actionable visualizations, ensuring insights are intuitive and meaningful.
- Apply strong data modelling and DAX skills to create efficient, scalable, and performant reports.
- Champion data-driven decision‑making across all functions.
Data Modelling & Preparation
- Support the development of semantic models, curated datasets, and organised data layers aligned with enterprise standards.
- Collaborate with data engineers and the Data Architect to validate data structures and ensure that models are accurate, well‑defined, and optimized.
Data Analysis & Insights
- Perform analysis to identify trends, anomalies, and actionable insights.
- Provide data-driven recommendations that help stakeholders improve performance, processes, and operational outcomes.
- Validate data quality and troubleshoot discrepancies or reporting issues.
Analytics & Dashboard Delivery
- Lead the development of enterprise-grade Power BI dashboards and management information reporting.
- Own and maintain centralised semantic models, ensuring consistency and reusability across reports.
- Apply strong data modelling, and performance tuning to deliver high-quality analytics solutions.
- Ensure dashboards meet stakeholder needs for clarity, insight, and usability.
- Partner with business on the development, and deployment of business intelligence dashboards, reports, and data products that enable leaders to make actionable, insight driven decisions.
- Ensure reporting solutions are accurate, timely, and aligned with enterprise performance metrics and transformation priorities.
BI Delivery & Execution
- Execute work aligned to the BI roadmap, ensuring timely delivery of dashboards, reports, and enhancements.
- Participate in Agile ceremonies, contribute to sprint planning, and manage tasks with attention to detail and follow-through.
- Document technical specifications, data definitions, and report logic to ensure transparency and repeatability.
Program & Change Management
- Champion effective change management practices to ensure adoption of new tools, processes, and ways of working across the organisation.
- Work directly with business stakeholders to understand reporting needs and provide analytical support.
- Partner with BI Leads, Data Architect, and IT teams to align work with broader data strategy and platform improvements.
- Provide support and guidance to business users adopting self-service analytics capabilities.
What Success Looks Like
- Accurate, timely, and user-friendly dashboards that help leaders make informed decisions.
- Consistent use of trusted, well-modeled datasets across reports.
- High stakeholder satisfaction due to reliable insights and responsive delivery.
- Strong alignment with BI standards, governance, and the overall data strategy.
- Fewer data discrepancies and stronger data literacy across internal teams.
Candidate Profile
Experience & Capability
- Track record of delivering BI solutions in complex organisations.
- 2–4 years of experience delivering BI solutions in medium or large organizations.
- Strong stakeholder engagement capabilities with the ability to influence and communicate effectively.
- Experience translating business requirements into clear technical solutions.
Technical Strength
- Solid proficiency in Power BI including data modelling, DAX, and report development.
- Awareness and aptitude to learn and grow skills and expertise with Databricks, including Data Lake, notebooks, and data engineering pipelines.
- SQL skills and understanding of dimensional modelling.
- Basic understanding of ETL/ELT processes, data quality, and analytics lifecycle management.
- Familiarity with Azure data ecosystem (e.g., Data Lake, Synapse, MS Fabric).
Mindset & Behaviours
- Outcomes-focused
- Comfortable operating in ambiguity and fast changing environments
- Confident communicator with the ability to simplify complexity for senior stakeholders
- Can do attitude demonstrating sense of urgency to drive change and transformation
Why Join
This role offers visibility, stretch, and real impact. You will be part of an IT function evolving into a strategic growth engine, with exposure to senior leadership and enterprise-wide initiatives under the OneGP model.
About Us
GP Strategies Corporation is one of the world's leading talent transformation providers. By delivering award-winning learning and development solutions, we help organizations transform through their people and achieve meaningful change. GP Strategies has delivered our innovative consulting, learning services, and talent technology solutions to over 6,000 organizations globally.
From our global experience working across thousands of projects and initiatives over the past 55 years, we've learned that relationships, business, work, innovation, strategy, and transformation are all about people. And, to put it simply, GP Strategies is about our people - an extensive global network of learning experts. Additional information can be found at www.gpstrategies.com .
With more than 4000 employees in over 30 countries, diversity at GP Strategies is second nature! Beyond our locations, our culture focuses on performance and revolves around respect, fairness, and working collaboratively to achieve our goals. We support our People, no matter who they are or where they are from, because we all have valuable and unique perspectives and approaches. That's how great ideas are born, which enable us to work smarter.
GP Strategies is committed and proud to be an Equal Opportunity Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex (including pregnancy, childbirth and related conditions, sexual orientation, and gender identity), national origin, age, veteran status, disability, or any other federally protected class.
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