Senior BI Analyst

Key Skills

Alteryx, Data Analysis, Data Architecture, Data cleaning / Data cleansing, Data science techniques, Data Visualization, Finance, KPIs, Oracle, PowerBI, Python Programming, R Programming, Sales, Salesforce, SAP, Supply Chain Management

Job Description

• This role will drive process and data analysis for Shell’s Process Analytics CoE team.
• Incumbent is responsible for developing analytical visualizations for projects; directly collaborating with different business stakeholders & other partners and working across a range of technologies and tools.
• Ideal candidate will work on:

o Engaging the stakeholders to understand the business problem and gather requirements

o Data extraction and reporting using different tools and techniques like Alteryx, SQL, PowerBI, Spotfire etc

o Generate insights from the data and effective story boarding. o Regularly interact with stakeholders/business owners and present actionable insights from the dashboards.

• Candidate should be able to ask the right questions, ability to move from data to insight to action, break down strategic & operational questions from different process teams and structurally answer them with data driven insights
• Should have intensive experience in Business Intelligence – creating dashboards, providing business performance insights, and storyboarding the outcome.
• Exposure to process mining tools like Celonis EMS/UI Path/PAFNow is preferred.
• Support the Data Science Team Lead in design and execution of analytics dashboards for projects

What do we need from you?

Industry / Functional Expertise

• Provide deep business expertise in preferably Oil & Gas - Upstream or Downstream businesses. (If these are not available, willing to consider other industries that are similar or related - manufacturing, mining, power generation, etc.)
• Expertise in working with domain data related to Business operations like Finance, Supply Chain, Plant Maintenance, Sales, CRM, Production & Inventory Management is preferred.
• Exposure to working with ERP data like SAP/Oracle/salesforce is preferred • Should have strong story telling skills: Ability to explain complex data and models to business teams
• Proficiency Level: Intermediate

Stakeholder Engagement Skills

• Working collaboratively across multiple sets of stakeholders – business SMEs, IT, Data teams, Analytics resources to deliver on project deliverables and tasks
• Identify actionable insights that directly address Process/Business team’s challenges / opportunities
• Articulate business insights and recommendations to respective stakeholders • Understanding business KPI's, frameworks and drivers for performance
• Proficiency Level: Mastery

Technology Skills

• Strong experience in specialized analytics tools and technologies (including, but not limited to)

o Basic scripting knowledge with Alteryx/SQL/Python/R for data engineering o Power BI, Spotfire, Qlik or other visualization tools

• Reporting skills: Data collection, Data cleaning, Data Quality Analysis, Exploratory data analysis, Reporting Automation, Data visualization, Data Storytelling, Dashboard maintenance • Should be strong at understanding data architecture or frameworks.
• Assess data availability and reporting/modelling feasibility
• Proficiency Level: Intermediate-to-Mastery

Special Challenges

• Easily analyzes, draw, and synthesizes important insights from complex data. • Extremely curious and self-driven to understand business process performance through data.
• Ability to translate a business question into a well-defined analytical plan that includes data requirements for technical resources to extract the necessary data.
• Rapid onboarding on projects, understanding analytics goal and working with ill-defined datasets
• Communicating technical jargon in plain English to colleagues within Data Science team and outside
• Virtual working with network of colleagues located throughout the globe

Experience

• Minimum 5-7 years of relevant experience in Business Analytics
• Should have strong experience in delivering dashboards with at least one of the technologies POWERBI/SPOTFIRE/QLIK
• Preferred experience in Oil & Gas, Finance Operations, Supply Chain, Plant Maintenance or Order Management
• Preferred experience working with process mining tools like Celonis/PAFnow etc
• Good interpersonal communication skills and influencing skills
• Eagerness to learn and ability to work with limited supervision

Company Description

Shell Business Operations (SBO) is a chain of operational centers that form an integral part of Royal Dutch Shell. We influence business development for Shell globally, enabling the work of 93,000 employees in over 70 countries across the world. SBO Chennai is focused on driving excellent performance that enable Shell to operate in a global competitive and ever-changing business environment