Business Intelligence Specialist

2 weeks ago

Toronto, Ontario, Canada OMERS Full time

As a key member of the Enterprise Data and Advanced Analytics team, the role of BI Specialist is instrumental in enhancing data & analytics capabilities by championing industry best practices and delivering high quality reports and training to enhance business decision making.

They help translate complex solutions to digestible business-centric outcomes and will do so by building interactive data visualizations using Power BI and sophisticated data models.


They will work with business-unit leaders to identify and prioritize problems that analytics is suited to solve and help identify the data (internal or external) needed to produce the most useful insights.

In addition to being responsible for end to end solutions that business users can execute on, they also work towards driving adoption among business users.

The individual will support and collaborate with data engineers, data scientists and business users and engage in technical support, research and knowledge sharing through the implementation lifecycle of projects and solutions.

Facilitating workshops with stakeholders to gather requirements and develop low/high fidelity wireframes
Contributing to the Power BI Community of Interest/Champions network to review latest features and updates
Broadening the reach of Power BI through providing Dashboard in a Day and other Power Platform workshops at Enterprise level
Designing and building interactive data visualization using Power BI to provide insights
Developing and monitoring Power BI Premium Dataflows to gather, transform and democratize structured and unstructured data assets
Helping instill a product mindset in the team and presenting and communicating analytics centric solutions to stakeholders and the immediate team
Building professional growth by actively acquiring predictive modelling skills and programming breadth
Facilitating collaboration and sharing through best practices of delivering and sharing and content
Collaborating with data architects, engineers, and data scientists to carve out solutions that can support ongoing and future analytical capabilities
Operating in an Agile development environment
Managing change and communicating impacts to stakeholders and fellow team members
Provisioning and resource management of Premium Capacity
Leading multiple projects simultaneously and ensuring on-time delivery
Usage Monitoring and Auditing

Qualifications:

Bachelor's degree in information systems, Business Analytics, Data Science, Business, Accounting, Finance, or related discipline with two (2) + years of experience
Excellent data visualization skills and experience of developing dashboards using Power BI (DAX and M). Strong ability to communicate quantitative data into a visually engaging story
Experience and proficiency in SQL scripting is a must
Experience and proficiency with an additional programming language such as Python is an asset
Knowledge or experience of machine learning and data science is a plus
Depth of Power BI experience wrangling complex data using M functions and developing sophisticated semantic logic using DAX expressions will be thoroughly tested and is required
Breadth of technical experience and knowledge in the MSFT data and analytics ecosystem, with Subject Matter Expertise in Power BI
Ability to quickly propose solutions by recalling the latest best practices learned from MVP & Product Team articles, MSFT documentation, whitepapers, and other community publications is required
Proven track record of building deep technical relationships. Experience in aligning expectations across various stakeholders
Able to trace data lineage and resolve technical issues with mínimal supervision
Polished written and verbal communication and presentation skills targeted at all levels of the organization

Our story:


Founded in 1962, OMERS is one of Canada's largest defined benefit pension plans, with $121 billion in net assets as at December 31, 2021.

OMERS is a jointly-sponsored pension plan, with 1,000 participating employers ranging from large cities to local agencies, and over half a million active, deferred and retired members.

OMERS members include union and non-union employees of municipalities, school boards, local boards, transit systems, electrical utilities, emergency services and children's aid societies across Ontario.

Contributions to the Plan are funded equally by members and employers.

OMERS teams work in Toronto, London, New York, Amsterdam, Luxembourg, Singapore, Sydney and other major cities across North America and Europe - serving members and employers and originating and managing a diversified portfolio of high-quality investments in public markets, private equity, infrastructure and real estate.

OMERS is committed to having a workforce that reflects the communities in which we live and work. We are an equal opportunity employer committed to a barrier-free recruitment and selection process. At OMERS inclusion and diversity means belonging. How we

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