Senior Business Analyst

Business Analyst/ Data analyst- Power BI

Well-known Media and entertainment company based

Business Segment: Technical Operations
Sub-Business: Studio Distribution
Location: London, UK
Hybrid: 3 days onsite per week, 2 from home
Pay: up to £80,000 per year for the right candidate
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About The Role
This Senior Business Analyst position is a key member of the Studio Distribution Technical Operations organisation supporting the International Home Entertainment and Digital Distribution businesses. This role is a unique combination: half traditional Business Analyst supporting the applications that manage the distribution of our content across physical and digital media; and half Data Analyst working with our business partners to analyse title performance and consumer trends in order to maximise revenue for our studio. You'll be a member of an international team that spans Los Angeles and London.

Responsibilities

• Stakeholder Engagement: Develop and maintain relationships with International Home Entertainment and Digital Distribution business. Learn and understand their functional processes, data dependencies and workflows, and needs for technology solutions.
• Requirements Gathering: Lead discovery and requirements gathering sessions with business and technical teams, documenting functional requirements and use cases.
• Continuous Improvement: Engage with business stakeholders to identify new project and enhancement requests along with managing the prioritisation of the request backlog.
• SME: Act as subject matter expert for the Home Entertainment systems that support product planning, distribution, and licensing functions.
• Data and Reporting Expert: Build and develop reporting and analytics solutions for the Digital Distribution business across the broader Company data landscape.
• Project Delivery: Collaborate with enterprise product and engineering teams to deliver enhancements and support for the application portfolio.
• Validation: Provide oversight of technical teams by reviewing technical design and ensuring deliverables meet business requirements.
• Testing and Transition: Coordinate user acceptance testing, user training, and change management with business stakeholders.
• Business Support: Serve as the point of escalation for the day-to-day operational activities and support questions.

Qualifications/Requirements Basic Qualifications

• Minimum 8 years of experience in an IT application development or support role that engages directly with business users.
• Plus, minimum 5 years of experience in a Data Analyst or Data Engineering role working with complex, multi-source datasets and developing reporting and analytics.
• Understanding of IT project management methodologies and SDLC processes, such as Agile Scrum and Waterfall, along with associated best practices.
• Microsoft Power BI experience, including creating workspaces, managing complex datasets, and utilizing best practices to build dashboards and visualisations.
• Strong SQL skills having experience with complex table joins, aggregate and analytical functions, and subqueries and common table expressions.
• Strong analytical skills with the ability to gather input from multiple sources and articulate technical recommendations and a point-of-view for key decisions.
• Enjoys working in a collaborative team environment with the ability to manage multiple priorities and leverage support team members as necessary.
• Excellent written, oral, presentation, and interpersonal skills with the comfort to communicate with all levels of the organization.
• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or related field; or equivalent.

Desired Characteristics/Qualifications

• Experience with Media & Entertainment industry or manufacturing/distribution of packaged goods.
• Experience with modern reporting and analytics technologies and platforms (Snowflake, Google BigQuery, Python, Airflow, Power BI, MicroStrategy, Looker).
• Enjoys learning new technologies and partnering with development teams to implement.
• Ability to effectively collaborate with teams across multiple time zones.