Finance Business Analyst (Business Intelligence)

Wickes are a digitally led, service enabled organisation with a project in every home.

Are you looking for your next opportunity within Finance?  Would you enjoy the pace and energy of a retail environment which is collaborative, fun and inclusive where people feel part of a winning team? Do you enjoy the benefits of working together in person as a team blended with the flexibility of remote working?

Here at Wickes we are looking to recruit a Business Analyst to ensure data governance and data integrity with ‘one version of the truth’ across the data lake. To support the development of the Data Lake ensuring that the business requirements are communicated clearly and are met.

Key Accountabilities:

• Ensure governance and integrity across the Data Lake, including Master Data management, and ensuring ‘one version of the truth’

• Ensure data security across the data lake - the right users have access to the right data

• Support the development of the Data Lake, collaborating with relevant stakeholders and Data Analysts to ensure that business needs are met.

• Ensure that controls & measures are in place to record data issues from source systems to the Data Lake (control framework).  IT will own and implement the control framework, but this role plays an integral part in maintaining, updating and supporting the control framework.

• Ownership of Data tables management, creating the tables required by the business to create meaningful MI reporting as well as managing the business rules and logic in the data lake.

• Create and amend company reporting and support the ‘spokes’ of super users around the business to ensure they are able to provide insightful reporting.  Ensuring SLAs (e.g. report timeliness) and quality standards (e.g. report accuracy and format) are met.

• Maintain robust procedures and processes are in place to ensure team best practice and high-quality outputs

• Ownership of BI related communications to the business (e.g. new data, new reports etc) 

• Leading and developing junior analyst

What are we looking for:

• Relevant professional or industry training includingMaster Data Management, SQL, Data Analysis.

• 5+yrs BI / data experience

• Expert with BI Tools

• Strong documentation skills and ability to translate IT into layman's terms

• Functional and technical understanding and competence in the Google reporting and data warehouse architecture.

• Creating functional and technical specifications and diagrams.

• Confident communicator capable of owning projects E2E with strong acumen for business analysis and user engagement

• Confident managing and coaching ability of one or more team members

• Understanding of data integrity, data quality issues, and end-to-end data flows

• experience using cloud data warehouse technologies and are confident working with large datasets (e.g. BigQuery)

• Experience in the management, capture, definition, development, agreement, delivery, and documentation of user information requirements within a maintainable and supportable information environment.

What can we offer you?

You’ll be supported with fantastic learning and development and have the opportunity to grow and develop your career with us 

We’ll also equip you with a benefits package that includes 

• Competitive bonus

• Save-as-you-earn scheme

• Private Medical and Life Assurance

• Contributory pension scheme

• Colleague discount 

• Discount platform including savings and cash back at numerous retailers, savings on gym membership, cycle to work scheme

Our widely recognised wellbeing strategy is something we’re proud of at Wickes. As part of this, we offer a range of health and wellbeing benefits and support, including an Employee Assistance Programme, financial education & loans, and access to parental, menopause and fertility support. 

We have recently re-opened our Support Centre in Watford, where our Finance team are based, along with our other support functions.  We recognise the value of bringing our teams together to collaborate, support each other and build on our amazing culture.  We are also encouraging our teams to work flexibly, with a blend of remote / office working. 

About Us: 

Wickes is a multi-channel retailer operating in the home improvement market.  With 40 years in industry, Wickes now generates revenue in excess of £1.3Bn across 230 stores delivered by 8,000+ colleagues.  

But it is the Wickes’ culture that is considered its best kept secret; it’s a collaborative, down to earth, fun and inclusive environment where people feel part of a winning team. All our colleagues come from different backgrounds, but what we all have in common is a determination to succeed and a passion for being the best we can be. If that sounds like you, we’ll make you feel right at home.

Please note: All offers of employment are subject to DBS / background checks.