Business Analyst – Data & Analytics
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About the Role
Damen seeks a Business Analyst to bridge business stakeholders and data/IT teams, translating needs into data and reporting solutions. The role involves defining KPIs, developing Power BI dashboards, and driving data-driven decision-making.
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Responsibilities
- Develop strong understanding of business operations and processes
- Act as trusted advisor to stakeholders (Finance, Operations, Projects)
- Proactively challenge business requirements and assumptions to ensure clarity and feasibility
- Facilitate workshops to define KPIs and reporting needs
- Translate business needs into functional requirements and user stories
- Align business expectations with data models, dashboards, and reporting solutions
- Support development of Power BI dashboards and reporting solutions
- Define and standardize KPIs and reporting frameworks
- Drive consistency in KPI definitions and reporting structures
- Support data governance initiatives and best practices
- Support stakeholders in interpreting dashboards and insights
- Provide guidance and training on data driven decision making
Requirements
- Bachelor’s Degree in Business Administration, Data Analytics, Information Systems, Finance, Engineering, Statistics, Computer Science, or related field
- 5–8 years in Business Analysis or BI/reporting roles
- Strong stakeholder management and requirement gathering experience
- Proven experience translating business needs into data and BI solutions
- Mandatory experience in a project based, engineering, manufacturing, or industrial environment
- Exposure to finance, business control, or operations domains is required
- Power BI (incl. Star Schema or similar relations)
- ERP systems (SAP, IFS, Dynamics)
- Understanding of data modelling concepts
- Professional proficiency in English, both written and spoken
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Job Purpose
- As a Business Analyst at Damen, you play a key role in understanding business needs and translating them into actionable data and reporting solutions.
- You act as a bridge between business stakeholders and data/IT teams, ensuring that requirements are clearly defined, challenged where needed, and converted into meaningful dashboards, KPIs, and insights that support decision making.
- This role requires strong business understanding, stakeholder engagement, excellent communication skills and the ability to translate operational needs into structured BI solutions, with a focus on driving data driven decision making across the organization.
About The Organization
- You will join an international organization where data and analytics are increasingly central to decision making.
- The organization is actively professionalizing its data and BI landscape, with teams operating across multiple international locations.
- A central data and analytics team collaborates with specialized teams for data engineering, data platform management, and dashboard development.
- Key focus areas include strengthening data governance, standardizing reports, and KPI definitions, and developing organization wide dashboards.
- Over the coming years, the data and BI domain will continue to expand, with the objective of embedding data driven working practices across the organization.
Key Responsibilities
- Develop strong understanding of business operations and processes.
- Act as trusted advisor to stakeholders (Finance, Operations, Projects).
- Proactively challenge business requirements and assumptions to ensure clarity and feasibility.
- Familiar with the agile way of working.
- Facilitate workshops to define KPIs and reporting needs.
- Translate business needs into functional requirements and user stories.
- Align business expectations with data models, dashboards, and reporting solutions.
- Act as the bridge between business and technical/data teams.
- Support development of Power BI dashboards and reporting solutions.
- Define and standardize KPIs and reporting frameworks.
- Ensure outputs are business relevant, actionable, and aligned with decision making needs.
- Drive consistency in KPI definitions and reporting structures.
Qualifications
- Bachelor’s Degree in Business Administration, Data Analytics, Information Systems, Finance, Engineering, Statistics, Computer Science, or related field.
- 5–8 years in Business Analysis or BI/reporting roles.
- Strong stakeholder management and requirement gathering experience.
- Proven experience translating business needs into data and BI solutions.
- Mandatory experience in a project based, engineering, manufacturing, or industrial environment.
- Exposure to finance, business control, or operations domains is required.
- Strong understanding of project based environments and operations.
- Experience working with finance, business control, or operational teams.
- Ability to connect business processes with data and reporting solutions.
- Power BI (incl. Star Schema or similar relations).
- ERP systems (SAP, IFS, Dynamics).
- Understanding of data modelling concepts.
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