The Digital and Technology team of General Mills India Centre is looking for a passionate and enthusiastic individual to contribute as a Sr. Business Intelligence Analyst. This role will report into Manager, DIV in India and functionally collaborate with the various verticals of General Mills.
The Data Insights & Visualization team caters to various reporting, visualization & insights initiatives to support and aid in decision making for various Operating Units and Business functions. The team operates in Agile manner and works in partnership with product teams to deliver turnkey BI solutions.
This individual contributor role of Sr. Business Intelligence Analyst would lead BI Ideation & consulting with the business & technical team and would be responsible to build/standardize/enhance BI solutions. The person will collaborate and partner with various D&T teams to collectively deliver on the problem statement through optimum, standardized & user-friendly solution.
KEY ACCOUNTABILITIES
Product Design, Development & Analytics:
- Design, develop, test, automate, and launch new Business Intelligence visualization & reporting solutions leveraging tools such as Tableau, Looker, DOMO, Advance Excel, BigQuery, etc
- Develop technical architectures and prototypes for solutions (dashboards, portal pages, metrics, etc) through coordination with enterprise architect teams.
- Lead design, code & process review sessions to ensure compliance with established standards, policies, and performance guidelines.
- Actively participate in various phases of the project including defining the core requirement, effort estimation, root-cause analysis, solutioning, development and deployment.
- Business engagement by conducting meetings/interviews and facilitating large-group/cross-functional sessions with customers, while containing the scope of the initiative.
- Apply thought leadership to deliver application of insights through absorbed domain/functional business acumen.
- Collaborate and contribute towards strategic and tactical decisions that impact decision support, product design and analytics.
- Expert level ability to develop visualization story using advance Business Intelligence tools that serve as a decision-making resource for business users.
- Partner with technical teams to troubleshoot technical and performance issues in the big data ecosystem.
- Perform in-depth analysis to identify key business data elements & metrics to enable insights.
Strategy & Collaboration:
- Play the role of translator by effectively dissecting business challenges into impactful dashboard designs and technical builds.
- Partner along with product team with business stakeholders to understand project requirements and lead BI engagement, execution & delivery.
- Detail-oriented, a strong communicator, incredibly curious, and technically capable with a desire to discover and deliver data-driven business insights to fuel our data-driven culture and help us make informed business decisions.
- Collaborate with teams across functions to set internal benchmarks, develop critical metrics for new initiatives, and recommend best practices.
- Coordinate triage efforts, resolve user issues and system improvements.
MINIMUM QUALIFICATIONS
- Bachelor s degree from accredited university (Full Time) in Business Analytics or a related subject area
- 8+ years of total experience with 6+ years of relevant experience working with business stakeholders and designing analytical solutions.
- Extensive experience in creating interactive dashboards using Tableau (Expert) and other visualization tools (Basic) Domo, Looker, Business Objects, Advance Excel, SQL, etc
- Strong communication skills, capable of translating business requests into technical requirements and articulating the pros and cons of different technologies, platforms, design and architectural options.
- Proficient in data and analytics tools and concepts, including dimensional modeling, ETL, reporting tools, data governance, data warehousing and both structured and unstructured data.
- Basic understanding of data extraction using Google Big Query, Oracle, SQL Server, SAP BW or SAP HANA
- Proficient at influencing without authority, skilled at advising and negotiating with business leaders to develop high value solutions.
PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS
- Thought-driven leadership to successfully deliver scalable team management and business solutions.
- Knowledge of at least one other programming language such as Python is a plus.
- Takes the initiative to do the right thing - doesnt walk past a problem.
- Consultant mindset - able to challenge with courage and influence upwards and with peers.
- Agile learner - has passion and curiosity to learn new things and understand the why
