Bi Engineer

BI Engineer| 6 Month Contract | (Inside IR35) | Hybrid (Edinburgh) | Starting ASAP

Job Description:

Harvey Nash’s Public Sector client is looking to recruit a Business Intelligence (BI) Engineer. You will have a key role in helping understand corporate services data and analysing and presenting it in a way that supports the programme.

Immediate activity, and for the foreseeable future, will revolve around the development of reporting solutions with Oracle BI Publisher and OTBI. You will need to be a confident and well experienced BI Engineer with Oracle Fusion Cloud technologies. Functional expertise of Oracle Cloud HCM and ERP is also strongly desired.

Aside from report development, you may be asked to carry out data quality and data analysis activities as required by the business needs at the time. Therefore, experience with Excel and Power BI will be advantageous.

Main duties include:

The initial focus of work is:

• Work to build reports on the Oracle Fusion cloud using OTBI & BI Publisher
• Looking at current management information and analytics produced by existing systems for finance and human resources.
• Helping prepare data to support BI solutions.
• Prepare functional and/or technical specifications for reports built on Oracle Cloud – mainly, HCM and ERP.

You will:

• Build reports as per business requirements and functional specifications.
• Produce relevant specification documents and provide technical advice on reports to non-technical colleagues.
• Summarise and present data and conclusions in the most appropriate format for users.
• Have good command of Oracle HCM, Oracle ERP (especially Finance modules) to build reports.
• Be able to help less experienced permanent members of staff develop their Oracle Cloud report development skills.
• Apply tools and techniques for data analysis and data visualisation (including the use of business information tools).
• Identify, collect and migrate data to and from a range of systems.
• Manage, clean, abstract and aggregate data alongside a range of analytical studies on that data.

Essential Criteria

• Strong experience with Oracle Cloud reporting tools – OTBI & BI Publisher.
• Strong SQL scripting skills and the ability to carry out data manipulation and/or pipelining jobs.
• Understanding of data preparation activities and data modelling preferably within an HR and Finance setting.
• Experience working closely with external or internal users/organisations to understand and validate data inputs, and explain analysis outputs in business rather than technical language.
• Experience of working with technical and non-technical stakeholders to help define reporting requirements via documenting in Business Requirement Documents, Functional Specification Documents and Technical specification documents.

Desirable Criteria

• Functional experience with Oracle HCM and ERP is highly advantageous.
• Excel, Microsoft BI and / or Tableau practical experience for data analysis and BI purposes is highly advantageous.

This role has been deemed Inside IR35 by the client. Applicants must hold, or be happy to apply for, a valid Basic Disclosure Scotland. Please click the link to apply.