Senior BI Analyst

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Introduction

BI Analyst (Tableau)

The Economist is a leading source of analysis on international business and world affairs, published weekly in print and digital editions, and daily through our Espresso app and Economist.com. We deliver our information through a range of formats, from newspapers and magazines to conferences, films and digital editions. What ties us together is the objectivity of our opinion, the originality of our insight and our advocacy of economic and political freedom around the world.

This is an exciting time to join the Data & Insights team at The Economist Group. Under our newly appointed Chief Data Officer we are creating a centre of excellence spanning research, analytics and data science partnering with the whole group, including our core subscription business, our Economist Intelligence, Economist Impact and Executive Education and Events businesses. Our purpose is to better understand and affect the drivers of our business through data analytics and research, with a focus on our users, B2C customers and B2B clients. We are value-focused and outcome-driven: we help drive growth and agility at every level, whether through informing strategic alignment and decisions, providing quick feedback loops to operators or creating machine learning models to be integrated into our products and marketing communications.

In this role, you will contribute key deliverables to help us to bring data to a wide audience of stakeholders around the business. You will translate requirements into Tableau dashboards, using best practice data visualisation guidelines, ensuring content can be consumed with the minimum effort possible. Our goal is to drive up dashboard usage to facilitate more data-driven decisions, and to enable self-service BI across all verticals at the Economist. This role will work closely with the B2C Retention team, aiming to better engage and retain the subscribers we currently have.

Accountabilities

In the role you would be expected to:

• Deliver regular reporting using data visualisations in Tableau
• Create impactful data visualisations that drive action in Tableau
• Build using a template to ensure consistent look and feel for the end user
• Present your findings to stakeholders and iterate on dashboards to keep them relevant
• Identify ways to automate currently manual processes, using Tableau to visualise
• Provide end-user training in Tableau in an engaging way
• Share your Tableau knowledge with others across the team and company to help build a Tableau community
• Help to ensure best practice visualisation standards are employed in the team's Tableau content
• Build the right Tableau published data sources to enable self-service BI
• Gather new business requirements and collaborate closely with our users

Indicators used to measure success in this role include:

• Increasing the number of users of Tableau dashboards, compared to current usage
• Improved ability for our users to make business decisions using data visualisations
• Measurable increase in the quality of data across BI applications
• Reduction in ad-hoc reporting / data requests through self-service BI
• Optimised BI solutions delivered within time, quality and budget constraints

Experience, skills and professional attributes

To succeed in the role, you must have:

• Experience building and enhancing Tableau workbooks
• Analytical and problem-solving skills with attention to detail
• Communication, presentation and interpersonal skills
• High levels of energy, enthusiasm and passion to succeed in a dynamic environment
• Hands-on experience working with Tableau Online or Tableau Server
• Knowledge of best practice data visualisation techniques

It would also be desirable if you have:

• Experience working with subscription-based data sets and related metrics
• Tableau certification
• Experience using Snowflake or SQL Server
• Tableau Public profile