European Business Solutions Provider require a Business Intelligence Analyst to support the Commercial / Sales / Marketing functions and senior management with in-depth analysis on customer, operational and market insights to drive actions and decisions, customer (segment) performance reviews, and managing projects to deliver new reports and tools for strategic purposes

Client Details

European Business Solutions Provider

Description

European Business Solutions Provider require a Business Intelligence Analyst to support the Commercial / Sales / Marketing functions and senior management with in-depth analysis on customer, operational and market insights to drive actions and decisions, customer (segment) performance reviews, and managing projects to deliver new reports and tools for strategic purposes

Key Responsibilities

• Business Intelligence Analysts play a key role in providing the information, insights, and processes needed to drive the company forwards. As Business Intelligence Analyst you will collaborate with a wide range of stakeholders and other colleagues to develop and apply your analytical skills. You'll use your unique skill-set to identify requirements, detect problems and help to deliver improvements through analysis, reports and data management across the business

• Contribute to complex business and technology projects, collaborating with other functional and technical analysts in delivering in-depth analysis across information systems, information management, practices, procedures, and organisational change

• Provide information, analysis, insights, and recommendations to assist senior (commercial) management and directors, with a focus on commercial activities and customer behaviour

• Provide accurate and timely information to enable field sales and commercial planning staff across the business to perform their roles efficiently

• Provide information and insights for, and own the activities required to produce and collate the business plans and forecasts for the commercial business areas

• Be viewed as the 'data expert' for the commercial areas of the business

• Collaborate with other BI analysts (commercial, technical, ESI) to streamline the overall BI portfolio and help develop a self-serve BI solution for the functional analysts

• Work with the commercial team to agree sensible performance metrics and KPIs

• Capture and deliver reporting and analysis requirements for the commercial business areas to agreed timescales and quality standards, visualising performance, identifying insights and trends, and comparing with appropriate benchmark data as required

• Capture and deliver data management and selection requirements for a diverse range of commercial activities, (re-)defining the data (quality) management processes upfront and ensuring that data is captured, cleansed and validated at all times to control and protect data as a valuable business resource

• Providing rapid analysis of data for reports and presentations

• Promote the use of sophisticated data analysis techniques

• Identify areas for improvement to ensure our BI remains current and supports business growth

Experience and Skills

• Qualified to degree level (or equivalent) in a relevant subject

• Highly IT/ Analytical literate. Candidates with experience of Tableau, Qlikview, SSIS, and/or Alteryx will have a distinct advantage

• Experience in other analytical or reporting tools, such as PowerBI, Cognos, SSRS etc is highly desirable

• Experience in writing (complex) SQL queries is highly desirable

• Able to clearly and simply communicate your insights to a diverse set of stakeholders

• Able to work confidently with colleagues as part of a multi-disciplinary team to deliver analytical projects on time and on budget in a fast-paced environment

• Self-motivated, ability to use initiative, and work largely unsupervised

• Experience of managing/administrating CRM's for a commercial team

Profile

• Qualified to degree level (or equivalent) in a relevant subject

• Highly IT/ Analytical literate. Candidates with experience of Tableau, Qlikview, SSIS, and/or Alteryx will have a distinct advantage

• Experience in other analytical or reporting tools, such as PowerBI, Cognos, SSRS etc is highly desirable

• Experience in writing (complex) SQL queries is highly desirable

• Able to clearly and simply communicate your insights to a diverse set of stakeholders

• Able to work confidently with colleagues as part of a multi-disciplinary team to deliver analytical projects on time and on budget in a fast-paced environment

• Self-motivated, ability to use initiative, and work largely unsupervised.

• Experience of managing/administrating CRM's for a commercial team

Job Offer

Opportunity to work with a Leading European organisation

Opportunity to drive strategic decisioning with Senior Management

European Business Solutions Provider require a Business Intelligence Analyst to support the Commercial / Sales / Marketing functions and senior management with in-depth analysis on customer, operational and market insights to drive actions and decisions, customer (segment) performance reviews, and managing projects to deliver new reports and tools for strategic purposes

Client Details

European Business Solutions Provider

Description

European Business Solutions Provider require a Business Intelligence Analyst to support the Commercial / Sales / Marketing functions and senior management with in-depth analysis on customer, operational and market insights to drive actions and decisions, customer (segment) performance reviews, and managing projects to deliver new reports and tools for strategic purposes

Key Responsibilities

• Business Intelligence Analysts play a key role in providing the information, insights, and processes needed to drive the company forwards. As Business Intelligence Analyst you will collaborate with a wide range of stakeholders and other colleagues to develop and apply your analytical skills. You'll use your unique skill-set to identify requirements, detect problems and help to deliver improvements through analysis, reports and data management across the business

• Contribute to complex business and technology projects, collaborating with other functional and technical analysts in delivering in-depth analysis across information systems, information management, practices, procedures, and organisational change

• Provide information, analysis, insights, and recommendations to assist senior (commercial) management and directors, with a focus on commercial activities and customer behaviour

• Provide accurate and timely information to enable field sales and commercial planning staff across the business to perform their roles efficiently

• Provide information and insights for, and own the activities required to produce and collate the business plans and forecasts for the commercial business areas

• Be viewed as the 'data expert' for the commercial areas of the business

• Collaborate with other BI analysts (commercial, technical, ESI) to streamline the overall BI portfolio and help develop a self-serve BI solution for the functional analysts

• Work with the commercial team to agree sensible performance metrics and KPIs

• Capture and deliver reporting and analysis requirements for the commercial business areas to agreed timescales and quality standards, visualising performance, identifying insights and trends, and comparing with appropriate benchmark data as required

• Capture and deliver data management and selection requirements for a diverse range of commercial activities, (re-)defining the data (quality) management processes upfront and ensuring that data is captured, cleansed and validated at all times to control and protect data as a valuable business resource

• Providing rapid analysis of data for reports and presentations

• Promote the use of sophisticated data analysis techniques

• Identify areas for improvement to ensure our BI remains current and supports business growth

Experience and Skills

• Qualified to degree level (or equivalent) in a relevant subject

• Highly IT/ Analytical literate. Candidates with experience of Tableau, Qlikview, SSIS, and/or Alteryx will have a distinct advantage

• Experience in other analytical or reporting tools, such as PowerBI, Cognos, SSRS etc is highly desirable

• Experience in writing (complex) SQL queries is highly desirable

• Able to clearly and simply communicate your insights to a diverse set of stakeholders

• Able to work confidently with colleagues as part of a multi-disciplinary team to deliver analytical projects on time and on budget in a fast-paced environment

• Self-motivated, ability to use initiative, and work largely unsupervised

• Experience of managing/administrating CRM's for a commercial team

Profile

• Qualified to degree level (or equivalent) in a relevant subject

• Highly IT/ Analytical literate. Candidates with experience of Tableau, Qlikview, SSIS, and/or Alteryx will have a distinct advantage

• Experience in other analytical or reporting tools, such as PowerBI, Cognos, SSRS etc is highly desirable

• Experience in writing (complex) SQL queries is highly desirable

• Able to clearly and simply communicate your insights to a diverse set of stakeholders

• Able to work confidently with colleagues as part of a multi-disciplinary team to deliver analytical projects on time and on budget in a fast-paced environment

• Self-motivated, ability to use initiative, and work largely unsupervised.

• Experience of managing/administrating CRM's for a commercial team

Job Offer

Opportunity to work with a Leading European organisation

Opportunity to drive strategic decisioning with Senior Management

PHP DEVELOPER - Work from home 3 days a week! - Basingstoke

You may see adverts containing red flags like these:

"Expected to hit the ground running" Translation - "No training and support"

"Unlimited Income potential" Translation - "We don't pay well, but there's lots of overtime"

"An integral part of a small team" Translation - "We're understaffed, so the pressures on you buddy!"

There is no need to dress up the truth with this company, both the staff and the customers will tell you themselves how good it is.

5 years running the staff have voted the business in the top 10 companies to work for in the UK, beating almost 9000 applicants each year and 24,000 customers have rated them 9.6 out of 10 on trust pilot.

From a developer point of view, there is a strong culture of learning and supporting self-development, with regular lunch and learns as well as being able to attend conferences and industry events. This promotes the use of the latest technology in their projects.

One of the main projects is to completely redesign an internal system that is used across all departments in all sites. This will help the business run more efficiently and sell the product faster.

If you are looking for somewhere that will help you progress in your career, this company has a history of promoting 90% of their managers internally.

Talented individuals that are passionate about their speciality have been key to the business's success so far. Be part of this team of top devs to make a difference in an industry leading company.

REQUIRED SKILLSET - PHP Developer

· PHP with one of the MVC frameworks

· JavaScript and one of the modern frameworks

· SQL

BONUS SKILLS - PHP Developer

These are not a requirement and if you don't have them you will get to learn them.

· Laravel

· Vue.js

· TDD

· Kubernetes

· Cloud technologies

SALARY - PHP Developer

· £30,000-£55,000 + Benefits (Multiple positions from Junior to Senior)

· Benefits allowance so you can select from a bespoke suite of benefits for the IT team

HOW TO APPLY - PHP Developer

If you think this sounds like what you are looking for then either apply here or search for Ben Hamilton on LinkedIn and my contact details are at the top of my profile.

Don't worry too much if your CV is not up to date. We can deal with that later if needed.

PHP / Laravel / Symfony / Zend / Yii / CodeIgnitor / CakePHP / SQL / Kubernetes / Vue.js / Angular / React.js / TDD / AWS / Google Cloud / JavaScript

PHP DEVELOPER - Work from home 3 days a week! - Basingstoke

You may see adverts containing red flags like these:

"Expected to hit the ground running" Translation - "No training and support"

"Unlimited Income potential" Translation - "We don't pay well, but there's lots of overtime"

"An integral part of a small team" Translation - "We're understaffed, so the pressures on you buddy!"

There is no need to dress up the truth with this company, both the staff and the customers will tell you themselves how good it is.

5 years running the staff have voted the business in the top 10 companies to work for in the UK, beating almost 9000 applicants each year and 24,000 customers have rated them 9.6 out of 10 on trust pilot.

From a developer point of view, there is a strong culture of learning and supporting self-development, with regular lunch and learns as well as being able to attend conferences and industry events. This promotes the use of the latest technology in their projects.

One of the main projects is to completely redesign an internal system that is used across all departments in all sites. This will help the business run more efficiently and sell the product faster.

If you are looking for somewhere that will help you progress in your career, this company has a history of promoting 90% of their managers internally.

Talented individuals that are passionate about their speciality have been key to the business's success so far. Be part of this team of top devs to make a difference in an industry leading company.

REQUIRED SKILLSET - PHP Developer

· PHP with one of the MVC frameworks

· JavaScript and one of the modern frameworks

· SQL

BONUS SKILLS - PHP Developer

These are not a requirement and if you don't have them you will get to learn them.

· Laravel

· Vue.js

· TDD

· Kubernetes

· Cloud technologies

SALARY - PHP Developer

· £30,000-£55,000 + Benefits (Multiple positions from Junior to Senior)

· Benefits allowance so you can select from a bespoke suite of benefits for the IT team

HOW TO APPLY - PHP Developer

If you think this sounds like what you are looking for then either apply here or search for Ben Hamilton on LinkedIn and my contact details are at the top of my profile.

Don't worry too much if your CV is not up to date. We can deal with that later if needed.

PHP / Laravel / Symfony / Zend / Yii / CodeIgnitor / CakePHP / SQL / Kubernetes / Vue.js / Angular / React.js / TDD / AWS / Google Cloud / JavaScript

Our client, an award-winning Technology company, are looking for a Automation Test Engineer to join their team in Warrington. The ideal candidate will be looking to drive their career forward in collaboration with the practices and processes within the Automation Test Engineer. The Automation Test Engineer will strive to champion quality across the department and will play a part in shaping our processes and delivering our Agile transformation, whilst all the time working towards enhancing and progressing their career.

Job Description

• Working in an Agile test environment as part of a collaborative team to ensure Sprint goals are achieved
• Get involved in the production of test artefacts for functional, non-functional, integration and performance testing of applications, databases and infrastructure builds
• Assist with the provision of time and effort estimates for testing activities during a sprint.
• Looks to utilise testing knowledge, where appropriate, to help assess, advise and implement the best test approach for a particular set of acceptance criteria
• Ensures that any risks associated with the agreed test strategy and the system test plan are clearly documented and surfaced to key stakeholders

Experience

• Experience of Agile Testing with the ability to deliver testing solutions within Sprints
• Experience with Automation Testing
• Experience contributing to 3 Amigo Sessions
• Able to estimate User Stories and provide rationale behind the estimate
• 1 year's working knowledge of SQL Server including testing data flows through systems, transformation, data reconciliation and data interrogation across the whole stack.
• Experienced in the testing BI and Data Warehouse development
• Good communication and collaboration skills
• Ability to work well on own or as part of an Agile team

For further information please apply.

Our client, an award-winning Technology company, are looking for a Automation Test Engineer to join their team in Warrington. The ideal candidate will be looking to drive their career forward in collaboration with the practices and processes within the Automation Test Engineer. The Automation Test Engineer will strive to champion quality across the department and will play a part in shaping our processes and delivering our Agile transformation, whilst all the time working towards enhancing and progressing their career.

Job Description

• Working in an Agile test environment as part of a collaborative team to ensure Sprint goals are achieved
• Get involved in the production of test artefacts for functional, non-functional, integration and performance testing of applications, databases and infrastructure builds
• Assist with the provision of time and effort estimates for testing activities during a sprint.
• Looks to utilise testing knowledge, where appropriate, to help assess, advise and implement the best test approach for a particular set of acceptance criteria
• Ensures that any risks associated with the agreed test strategy and the system test plan are clearly documented and surfaced to key stakeholders

Experience

• Experience of Agile Testing with the ability to deliver testing solutions within Sprints
• Experience with Automation Testing
• Experience contributing to 3 Amigo Sessions
• Able to estimate User Stories and provide rationale behind the estimate
• 1 year's working knowledge of SQL Server including testing data flows through systems, transformation, data reconciliation and data interrogation across the whole stack.
• Experienced in the testing BI and Data Warehouse development
• Good communication and collaboration skills
• Ability to work well on own or as part of an Agile team

For further information please apply.

Second Line Senior Support Analyst

UK SBS

Swindon

£29,040 (potentially negotiable depending on experience)

Full Time

Open Ended

About us

UK Shared Business Services Ltd (UK SBS) is a trusted shared services provider to government. We are owned by the Department for Business, Energy & Industrial Strategy (BEIS) and UK Research and Innovation (UKRI) and deliver services to our six public sector clients and their 18,000+ employees. UK SBS provides HR & Payroll, Finance, Procurement and IT business services and specialist expertise to our clients. Our people are proud of the part they play in enabling our clients to focus on their core activities and delivering value for the UK economy and taxpayers.

About the role

You will be responsible for operating at a senior level within the team, providing guidance and advice to junior team members as well as support to the team lead. Operating in the team providing second line support within the ISS customer support function. You will ensure the efficient management of all issues reported to the teams Service Now resolver group. This includes but not limited to resolution and management of Requests for Service and Incident resolution that cannot be resolved at 1st Line Service Desk. Providing technical leadership expertise to ensure prompt resolution to technical issues across various lines of technology that enable business services to be delivered successfully. You will be responsible to ensure the team is recognised as a centre of excellence, ensuring tasks allocated to the team are always performed in a professional and quality manner.

About you

It is essential that you have GCSE level English & Maths and have experience of working within a mixed technology support environment and or willingness to develop the team and its capabilities and learn new technologies at pace. An industry recognised IT qualification/ Certification relevant to the technologies deployed, ITIL V3 qualification or relevant experience is also beneficial.

What we offer

UK SBS offer a competitive salary, a generous 28 days annual leave rising to 30 days within 3 years of service, pension scheme and other lifestyle and health care benefits.

How to Apply

Please note, when you click apply you will be directed through to our TopCareers.jobs website where you will be asked to complete the application process.

The closing date for applications is 22nd March 2020.

Second Line Senior Support Analyst

UK SBS

Swindon

£29,040 (potentially negotiable depending on experience)

Full Time

Open Ended

About us

UK Shared Business Services Ltd (UK SBS) is a trusted shared services provider to government. We are owned by the Department for Business, Energy & Industrial Strategy (BEIS) and UK Research and Innovation (UKRI) and deliver services to our six public sector clients and their 18,000+ employees. UK SBS provides HR & Payroll, Finance, Procurement and IT business services and specialist expertise to our clients. Our people are proud of the part they play in enabling our clients to focus on their core activities and delivering value for the UK economy and taxpayers.

About the role

You will be responsible for operating at a senior level within the team, providing guidance and advice to junior team members as well as support to the team lead. Operating in the team providing second line support within the ISS customer support function. You will ensure the efficient management of all issues reported to the teams Service Now resolver group. This includes but not limited to resolution and management of Requests for Service and Incident resolution that cannot be resolved at 1st Line Service Desk. Providing technical leadership expertise to ensure prompt resolution to technical issues across various lines of technology that enable business services to be delivered successfully. You will be responsible to ensure the team is recognised as a centre of excellence, ensuring tasks allocated to the team are always performed in a professional and quality manner.

About you

It is essential that you have GCSE level English & Maths and have experience of working within a mixed technology support environment and or willingness to develop the team and its capabilities and learn new technologies at pace. An industry recognised IT qualification/ Certification relevant to the technologies deployed, ITIL V3 qualification or relevant experience is also beneficial.

What we offer

UK SBS offer a competitive salary, a generous 28 days annual leave rising to 30 days within 3 years of service, pension scheme and other lifestyle and health care benefits.

How to Apply

Please note, when you click apply you will be directed through to our TopCareers.jobs website where you will be asked to complete the application process.

The closing date for applications is 22nd March 2020.