Business Intelligence Systems Officer - West Sussex County Council : Job Details

The Opportunity

Salary: £52,049 to £55,615 per annum

Working Pattern: Full time, 37 hours per week

Location: Based - County Hall, Chichester and working from home

Interview date: w/c 17 June 2024

The Business Intelligence (BI) Systems Officer role is critical to ensuring that the Council has well organised data, derived from different and varied sources, which is available for reporting and analysis to provide management information, performance reporting, business insights and predictive analytics about the Council operations and its services in the context of broader information about its geography, its residents and its communities.

You will provide the technical expertise to identify, extract, transform and load data into appropriate solutions that enable the use of analytical tools to create reports, predictions and dashboards that act as an evidence base for operational and strategic decision making.

Working with teams and key stakeholders across the Council, you will liaise with colleagues to enable project-based BI activity to succeed by providing the technical knowledge that will underpin BI designs.

As our successful post holder, you will provide a service, both operational and strategic support in nature, requiring co-ordination with other teams and closely related functions.

What are we looking for?

• Authoritative, applied knowledge of the specialist or professional discipline including technical theories and related principles.
• Detailed knowledge of practices and procedures relating to management of discipline.
• Sound and accurate IT knowledge especially in the tools associated with Microsoft Azure Data Platform and Microsoft Power BI.
• Thorough knowledge and understanding of SQL.

For more information on the Key Skills as well as the Qualifications and/or experience required, please refer to the Job Description attached.

Working for us

As well as adding real value to our service users and our communities, as an employer we recognise our employees are central in being able to achieve this. To recognise this we want to help support your development and provide an great place to work ensuring you can fulfil your full potential, have access to a range of benefits including:

• an excellent local government pension scheme
• generous holiday entitlement of 30 days (plus opportunity to buy additional leave)
• a range of flexible working options, depending on your job role
• maternity, paternity, dependency and adoption leave
• volunteering opportunities
• training and development opportunities, including coaching and mentoring
• a range of discounts giving our staff access to hundreds of offers; groceries, travel, cinema tickets, days out, leisure activities, high street retailers and the opportunity to save over £1,000 a year through our West Sussex Choices benefits platform (see ourStaff discounts page if you are a business looking to offer a discount)
• health and wellbeing benefits including access to our Employee Assistance Programme, Mental Health First Aiders and Voluntary Health Cash Plans

For a full list this can be found at our Rewards and Benefits page.

Further information

The reference number for this role is CRS00766.

For an informal conversation or for further information regarding the role, please contact Helen Mitchell (Business Intelligence Lead) at . For issues or queries regarding your application please contact .

To apply, please follow the links below to upload your CV and Expression of interest (EOI) letter. In your EOI letter please outline in 250 words on why you are suitable for the role and then a further maximum of 250 words on what technical/professional skills you would bring to the role.

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We are committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children, young people and vulnerable adults. This post is subject to reference from your current manager and a health check (if applicable).

Equity, inclusion and accessibility is very important to West Sussex County Council. We welcome and encourage applications from everyone, as this helps us build a diverse and talented workforce, that reflects the communities we serve. We ensure our approach to recruitment is flexible and supportive to enable all applicants to be at their best and to ensure they have the best possible chance of success.

We operate a guaranteed interview scheme for applicants that have a disability, are a veteran or are a care leaver. More information can be found on our application help page.