BI Analyst in Stockport - Forward Role

Are you a data analyst who loves solving problems, improving reporting, and helping a business scale properly? This is a great opportunity to join a growing FS organisation that’s investing in its data function and building out modern data capabilities.

Business Intelligence Analyst

£40,000 • Stockport • Hybrid (2 days in office)

You’ll join a small, collaborative BI team where you’ll have genuine ownership, variety, and exposure to the full data lifecycle.                                                                                                                                                                            

The business is in the early stages of building out a more mature data environment, with Snowflake being introduced as a modern data warehousing solution. You’ll play a key role in laying the foundations, improving reporting, supporting stakeholders, and helping drive better decisions across the company.

As a Business Intelligence Analyst, you will have end-to-end involvement: understanding current systems, shaping better solutions, and delivering meaningful insights.

There’s plenty of variety, lots of incoming requests, and huge potential to help scale a more robust BI function.

Role & Responsibilities:

• Write high-quality SQL and work across multiple datasets
• Build and maintain/improve reporting & dashboards (Power BI)
• Support the development of the Snowflake data warehouse
• Collect, clean and validate data from multiple sources
• Build automated data pipelines and support ETL processes
• Analyse performance, trends and business metrics, producing actionable insights

• Work with teams across operations, finance and wider business functions
• Understand stakeholder requirements and translate them into effective data solutions
• Provide clear, data-driven recommendations and support decision-making

• Identify efficiencies, build scalable solutions and support the development of a modern BI estate

Skills & Experience:

• Strong SQL skills are essential
• Experience with Power BI or similar BI/visualisation tools
• Exposure to cloud data warehouses / large databases (Snowflake is a bonus)
• Understanding of data pipelines, ETL processes and data modelling
• Ability to translate data into meaningful insights
• Comfortable working in a fast-moving environment with varied requests

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