BI Finance Solution Designer

Start Date: ASAP

Duration: Long-term

On-site Requirement: 3 days per week in Brussels 

Role Overview:

The BI Finance Solution Designer will be part of the Smart Data Factory (SmDF) team, bridging the gap between Finance business needs and technical solutions. The role involves designing data models and BI solutions to enable smarter, faster decision-making.

Responsibilities:

• Engage with business stakeholders to capture, refine, and document BI requirements in a clear and actionable format.
• Serve as the key point of contact between business teams and technical developers (Data/Analytics Engineers, BI Developers).
• Design high-quality conceptual data models tailored for analytics, such as star and snowflake schemas.
• Develop and maintain a BI solution blueprint outlining data sources, transformation processes, and visualization specifications.
• Collaborate with Data/Analytics Engineers to ensure data pipelines deliver accurate, well-structured, and timely datasets.
• Work closely with BI Developers to ensure semantic models, dashboards, and reports align with agreed-upon designs and standards.
• Actively participate in Agile ceremonies—including daily standups, sprint planning, backlog refinement, and retrospectives—while contributing to the prioritization of BI deliverables.
• Review and validate BI solutions to confirm they meet business requirements and deliver accuracy, usability, and optimal performance.

Soft Skills:

• Alignment with values such as respect, openness, and reliability.
• Driven with a high sense of ownership.
• Active collaboration and mentoring spirit within the team.
• Ability to communicate concepts and recommendations to both technical and non-technical audiences with simple and appropriate language.
• Active listening aptitudes.
• Ability to manage expectations in collaboration with the program manager.

Data Skills Required:

• Expertise in designing financial reporting and dashboarding solutions on top of SAP S/4HANA Finance & Controlling, with non-SAP data warehousing and BI technologies.
• Strong knowledge of Finance business processes supported by SAP S/4HANA Finance & Controlling: General Ledger, Cost Accounting, Asset Accounting, etc.
• Strong ability to understand business needs and translate them into BI/data requirements.
• Ability to document BI solution designs, data models, and business definitions for technical and business audiences.
• Strong knowledge of reporting and data visualization design best practices.
• Strong knowledge of dimensional modeling.
• Strong data exploration, profiling, and analysis skills.
• Extensive experience designing scalable, governed BI datasets and solutions using Power BI.
• Analytical thinking with problem-solving orientation.

Desired Skills:

• Experience with Budgeting & Forecasting processes and solutions.
• Knowledge of Data Lakehouse and Medalion Architecture best practices for Azure Databricks, including enforcing governance with Unity Catalog.
• Knowledge of dbt.
• Experience with Data Governance processes and tools.
• Knowledge of Agile practices (Scrum).
• Previous experience in the Energy sector.

Expertise:

Demonstrated success in delivering scalable Finance BI solutions across diverse functional domains.

Languages:

• Native French or Dutch speaker.
• Good understanding (reading and listening) in the other national language & in English (B1 or higher).