Job Detail

Job description and responsibilities:

Equatex AG’s technology organisation is developing and maintaining all IT solutions and executing complex agile projects.

We are looking for a “Senior Business Reporting & Analytics Specialist” with 5-8 years of experience.

Key tasks of this diverse and challenging role include:

• Design, test, and implement the right views, measurements and processes in business analytics that translate data into useful and actionable information


• Compile data from multiple sources and systems into usable analytic information


• Interact regularly with subject matter experts and stakeholder to ensure appreciation of management needs, ad-hoc analysis and daily reporting needs


• Back the team for adherence to defined repeatable processes; ensure architecture designs align with technology strategies and standards; championing new standards as required


• Support continuous improvement in business initiatives by obtaining the required business data, develop, test and launch reports and analytics. Participate in business analytics projects


• Provide customised data reporting services based on Oracle/SQL, QlikView and Business Objects to a top-tier client. Provide client with recurring and ad-hoc reports


• Analyse business reporting needs and requirements of internal stakeholders, liaise with knowledge contributors and document results


• Implement reports and dashboards and manage stakeholders for review-feedback sessions through iterative development process


• Contribute to data aggregation strategy for reporting, dashboards, and self-service analytics, analyse online and offline customer behaviour and help create and maintain an attribution model


• Contribute to establish an architecture and best practices around our Business Intelligence solution


• Working as part of a team within the Data Analytics & BI team and providing support to colleagues to enhance excellence within the team and department


• Ensure timely delivery to internal and external business stakeholders


• Close co-operation with other IT teams to ensure timely and accurate implementation of business requirements (DBAs, infrastructure)

Critical success factors:

• Come up with new and unique ideas, easily make connections among previously unrelated notions, seen as original and value added in meetings


• Manage multiple initiatives


• Facilitate team discussions and lead problem solving


• Demonstrate effective interpersonal skills and ability to network across all functions


• Team player – desire to help others succeed


• Self-starter – follows through on commitments


• Understand how work fits into the big picture

Qualifications, skills & knowledge:

• Bachelor’s Degree in business, finance, information technology, statistics, mathematics, analytics, related field or combination of education and experience


• Professional experience in data technology, ideally with a financial background


• Solid understanding of relational data models and data structures


• Developing SQL queries (Oracle experience is a plus)


• Experience in creating content with a BI tool (e.g. QlikView, Business Objects or prevero)


• Ability to work with accuracy under tight deadlines


• Ability to organise and manage stakeholders


• Strong analytical skills and quick understanding of complex procedures and processes


• Self-driven and proactive in building knowledge and expertise


• Strong interpersonal skills and professional approach to interact with various stakeholders


• Fluent English language skills (written, spoken) are a pre-requisite. German is an advantage