Senior Business Analyst
8 days ago
Aberdeen
OEG is a leading energy solutions business, providing mission critical infrastructure assets and services to the global offshore energy industry. Through our specialist divisions - topside, marine, subsea, cables, logistics and industrials, we are a pivotal link in the global offshore energy project chain, ensuring our customers' projects are delivered safely, reliably and efficiently. We are currently seeking a Senior Business Analyst to join our Topside/Subsea Divisions. • Aberdeen/Liverpool, United Kingdom or Den Helder, The Netherlands., • Act as the key link between the Subsea or Topside business, Finance leadership, application owners and BI/Data teams., • Translate operational, commercial and financial needs into clear data, application, warehouse and reporting requirements; own divisional data mapping and architecture documentation; and support consistent, trusted management information and scalable Group reporting., • Work with divisional process owners and key stakeholders to map and understand end-to-end operational, commercial, project and financial processes, highlighting regional or legacy variations, manual workarounds and opportunities for standardisation., • Own the divisional application and data architecture view, maintaining application inventories, dataflow and system-interaction maps, interfaces, systems of record, data lineage, dependencies and key data ownership across entities., • Gather, challenge and document business, data and reporting requirements, business rules and acceptance criteria; assess the downstream data and reporting impact of application implementations, migrations, integrations and configuration changes., • Act as the divisional business/data lead for onboarding priority applications and datasets to the Group warehouse, defining source scope, grain, history, refresh frequency, common identifiers, source-to-target mappings and transformation requirements., • Support consistent definitions, hierarchies and controls for customers, projects, contracts, entities, service lines, assets/equipment, personnel and statuses, working with Data Owners, Stewards and BI to maintain agreed standards., • Gather and rationalise reporting needs; define KPI calculations, dimensions, frequency, ownership and drill-down requirements; and support the design, validation and adoption of Power BI dashboards and management reporting., • Profile and validate critical data, define validation and exception rules, investigate root causes and reconcile outputs from source applications through the warehouse to published reports and management information., • Coordinate business testing, UAT, defect resolution and sign-off; ensure application and process changes are assessed for data, integration, warehouse and reporting impacts before implementation., • Support forecasting, planning and performance reviews by translating complex operational, commercial and financial information into clear analysis and actionable insight for divisional and senior leadership., • Build strong relationships across Finance, Operations, Commercial, Applications, IT and BI/Data teams; communicate technical concepts in practical business language and support documentation, training, adoption and continuous improvement., • Proven Senior Business Analyst, Business Systems Analyst or Data Business Analyst experience in a complex, multi-entity or project-based organisation., • Offshore energy, engineering, subsea, topsides or comparable sector experience is advantageous., • Strong requirements gathering, application analysis and data mapping skills, with experience in data-flow documentation and facilitating stakeholder workshops., • Experience supporting data warehousing, BI/reporting, integration, system implementation or business transformation delivery., • Strong practical Power BI experience, including report/dashboard requirements, KPI definition, data validation and working with semantic/data models., • Sound understanding of relational data, master/reference data, data quality, reconciliation, testing and data governance controls., • Able to bridge business and technical teams, challenge constructively and influence senior stakeholders across functions and locations., • Advanced Excel; SQL, data modelling or BPMN/process-modelling knowledge is desirable., • Degree or equivalent experience in business, information systems, data, engineering, finance or a related discipline., • Relevant business analysis, process, data or Power BI qualification is desirable. We are an equal opportunity employer committed to a fair and inclusive recruitment process for all applicants. #J-18808-Ljbffr