Lead Power BI Analyst

What is this position about? 

The Senior BI Analyst will play a key role in transforming complex data into actionable insights that drive strategic business decisions. This role focuses on developing, optimizing, and managing internal dashboards and reports that track key business metrics and operational performance. This person will collaborate closely with internal teams—such as Finance, Operations, People Analytics, and Delivery—to ensure high-quality insights and data accuracy across the organization. 

As a Lead Power BI Analyst, this role will also be expected to bring a strong understanding of business performance, analytics, and insights across the organization. The individual will work across a range of business areas and stakeholders, developing reporting and analytical solutions that not only provide visibility into performance, but also help leaders understand trends, drivers, opportunities, and areas requiring action. 

The role will combine strong Power BI and data fundamentals with an analytical mindset and an understanding of emerging GenBI capabilities. The successful candidate will be able to evolve traditional reporting into more intuitive, insight-driven experiences and identify opportunities to improve how business users access, understand, and act on data. 

Job Description 

• Design, build, and maintain internal BI dashboards and reports to monitor company KPIs and operational performance. 

• Collaborate with cross-functional teams to gather business requirements and translate them into effective BI solutions. 

• Develop and optimize data models and ETL processes to ensure data consistency and accuracy. 

• Present insights and recommendations to senior leadership, supporting strategic and operational decisions. 

• Implement best practices in BI design, data governance, and process automation. 

• Support internal initiatives by providing analytical expertise and data visualization capabilities. 

• Manage multiple internal BI projects end-to-end, ensuring timely delivery and stakeholder satisfaction. 

• Partner with business stakeholders to understand underlying business needs and translate them into meaningful metrics, analytical solutions, and actionable insights. 

• Take ownership of reporting and analytics solutions across multiple areas of the organization, ensuring consistency in metrics, definitions, and analytical approaches. 

• Proactively identify trends, patterns, exceptions, and opportunities within business data and help translate these findings into business actions. 

• Build scalable and reusable Power BI solutions, semantic models, and analytical frameworks that can support evolving business requirements. 

• Contribute to the evolution of the organization's analytics environment, including the adoption of GenBI and AI-enabled approaches to data exploration, insight generation, and reporting. 

• Evaluate and apply emerging analytics capabilities where they can improve the usability, speed, and effectiveness of business decision-making. 

• Serve as a lead practitioner and provide guidance on Power BI, analytics, visualization, and reporting best practices.

Function: Business Development
Experience Level: Mid-Senior Level