St John WA is a well renowned not-for-profit organisation whose vision and purpose is to serve humanity and build resilient communities.
With over 130 years of experience, the culture at St John WA is underpinned by a strong team spirit, camaraderie and the collaboration of employees and volunteers working together to change lives, while creating a powerful sense of belonging, where our people want to work.
This combined with over 2800 permanent team members, 6000 volunteer team members and annual revenues of $500 million, makes St John WA the industry leader in the provision of pre-hospital care and related products in Western Australia.Each year we attend in excess of 275,000 people across the state, treat 350,000 patients at our primary health centres and teach over 330,000 people life-saving first aid skills.
A Job to be proud of:
St John WA is seeking a Principal Business Intelligence Analyst to join our team. This is a full-time, permanent position reporting to the Manager of Strategic Analytics and is based in Belmont. The Data Science and Analytics team at St John WA employs data analysis and visualization tools to assist the organization in making informed decisions that better serve the community.
Applications are encouraged from experienced data analysis or business intelligence industry professionals who are keen to contribute their skills and experience to a community focussed organisation.
What you'll do:
Principal Business Intelligence Analysts provide analysis and decision support services, lead projects to develop reporting products, give advice on data and statistical matters, and coach less experienced analysts.
This is a diverse role in which you'll work with stakeholders, business processes, and complex data sets spanning operational, financial, workforce, and contractual domains. In doing so, you'll use a range of business intelligence and analytics frameworks and tools – including the cloud-based Power BI Premium platform.
You will be a senior member of a highly capable, motivated and collegial team, which works collaboratively with internal and external stakeholders to provide high quality services to St John WA and the community.
In a typical day you might:
Meet with senior executives or external stakeholders to understand a challenge or opportunity they need your help to address
Engage domain experts to understand the business process and how real-world actions are recorded in front-end systems
Identify, extract, analyse, and visualise relevant data, and then present your results and recommendations via an easy-to-understand report, infographic, or interactive dashboard
Proactively troubleshoot and problem solve any issues that arise
Investigate and document in business processes, data sources, and definitions
Provide training, coaching, and quality assurance to less experienced analysts
Manage projects to deliver new information products and develop data models
Represent our team in key meetings to influence decisions that impact our reporting capability
Identify and implement improvements that enable the team to operate more efficiently and/or effectively
You will have strong support from management and the broader team to implement our vision of what Data Science and Analytics can be now and, in the future, and will be given the space to work proactively, innovate, and drive new initiatives.
What you'll need:
The key attributes to succeed in these roles are: excellent critical thinking skills and attention to detail. The successful candidate will be someone who enjoys working with complex data sets to identify insights, while at the same time engaging with stakeholders to understanding their business and effectively communicate results to inform real-world decisions.
Knowledge and skills in the use of SQL to extract and transform data is highly desirable, as is demonstrated experience developing interactive reports and data visualisations in Power BI.
More broadly, successful candidates will demonstrate:
Previous experience in a similar role
Excellent conceptual and critical thinking skills
Very strong written and verbal communication skills with an ability to engage and influence key stakeholders
Excellent attention to detail and strong planning skills
Ability to work both autonomously and in a team environment
Ability to conceptualise and articulate complex concepts to non-domain experts
Strong analytical skills with the ability to translate business needs into reporting solutions
Knowledge of business intelligence and analytics concepts including experience with common industry tools, as well as coding or query languages
Experience with project management methodologies e.g. PRINCE 2, PMBOK, Agile or similar
It is also beneficial (but not necessary) if you have:
Experience training and coaching junior analysts
Demonstrated experience in developing and implementing best practice business intelligence and analytics methodologies, knowledge management, quality assurance and product documentation.
The required qualifications:
Tertiary qualifications in a quantitative subject (such as mathematics, business, science, engineering, or information technology) or extensive professional experience in a relevant field
What's in it for you?
The successful candidate will be offered a supportive and engaging working environment within a positive and professional team, along with:
Salary range of ~$127,000 - $135,000 per year (depending on skills and experience), plus superannuation and the benefits listed below
Salary packaging options
17.5% annual leave loading
$1,200 clothing allowance
$550 Health and Wellness reimbursement
Flexible working hours
Option to work from home one day per week (after probation)
Two additional leave days per year
Free first aid training and emergency ambulance cover
Free onsite parking
Are you ready to change lives?
To apply for this exciting opportunity please select "Apply Now". Applications must include a comprehensive CV , and a cover letter of no more than two (2) pages , that clearly outlines:
Why this opportunity interests you and your motivation to apply
An example of when you have needed to communicate complex, technical information to someone without domain expertise
An example of a project or task you have undertaken that involved analysing data to make recommendations or inform decision making
An example where you have taken initiative to improve something in your team.
For further information please contact Manager Operational Analytics Lauren Barnett via 08 9334 8285 orTalent Sourcing Consultant Passang Dema on ******
Applications close on Sunday 26th May at 11:55pm.
St John WA is committed to creating an inclusive environment which provides a sense of belonging and enables a welcoming, diverse, capable and connected workforce who represent the community we serve. Our goal is to ensure people feel safe to be themselves.
We actively encourage applications from people of all ages, genders, nationalities, abilities, and cultural backgrounds, including Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples, members of the LGBTIQ+ community, and all other suitable applicants.
St John reserves the right to select a shortlist from the applications received. The selection process employed will be at the discretion of St John
St John may begin the shortlisting process prior to the closing date.
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