Interim Global Finance PowerBI Report Writer
Dentons Global, South Africa
Job Description
To support the delivery of a significant transformation for the Global Finance division, Dentons is rolling out Power BI as a new reporting and analytics service. To successfully deliver this service, Dentons is recruiting a Power BI Report Writer to work with the Bi workstream to build Power BI reports to meet the requirements from both regional and global stakeholders.
This role will report to the Global Finance Transformation Process Lead R2R/BI and work closely with the PowerBi platform owner, the global Elite Data Insights team, and other key stakeholders.
The Global Finance Transformation Program is a global program designed to transform Dentons' finance function into the business partnering function of the future. It will support the business by offering real business insight, efficient and effective processes while maintaining the necessary compliance and controls.
Why Dentons is different
The legal profession is changing rapidly and Dentons is leading the way in advancing change for the benefit of clients. We are driven to challenge the status quo, delivering consistent and uncompromising quality and value to our clients in new and innovative ways. With over 17,000 individuals in more than 179 offices the opportunity is huge.
Dentons continues to receive external awards and recognition, including for our continued international expansion over the last 12 months; for ground-breaking innovation through the development of Nextlaw Labs and Nextlaw Global Referral Network; and for success in advising clients across multiple regions. Dentons is also a leader on the Acritas Global Elite Brand Index and a BTI Client Service 30 Award winner.
Against such rapid growth and change, this role offers the successful individual the chance to play a lead role and make their mark in driving the successful implementation of this global program.
Key Deliverables
- Delivery of robust and reconciled global and regional reports, meeting the specifications provided, and following best practice in terms of using the capabilities of PowerBi. These reports will include:
- client and matter reporting,
- firm performance reporting
- Delivery of self guided analytics to support effective user interaction with the data
- Delivery of reporting to assist in the identification of data anomalies and to form part of data reconciliation routines
- The provision of ad hoc support to users, facilitating Dentons to become a data driven organisation through having access to timely data that is both reliable and able to be interpreted by senior stakeholders
- To create insightful, performant, robust and reconciled management reports based on Azure tabular models and other data sources as required, applying best practice in report design and leveraging the capabilities of PowerBi
- To create and deploy dashboards/reporting within the global Business Insight architecture, supporting global and regional team members as required
- To understand and work with the global team to deliver an efficient Business Insight solution
- To embrace ongoing change and improve both process and quality of deliverables, providing clear explanations as changes are rolled out
- To work with the technical reporting team to provide reports for data reconciliation through the data transformation process, to ensure that regional and global teams have complete transparency of the data back to source systems
- To produce formats and templates to support regional teams creating standardised and consistent quality reports for a global audience
- To contribute reports to a global Marketplace to support the sharing of report templates across the regions
- To provide ad hoc support for other PowerBi report writers
- To support the data stewards and wider finance transformation data team with reports and analysis as required for them to ensure that data clean up activity delivers business benefit to support better decision making
- To create and update such documentation and online tool support text as necessary
- Significant experience and a proven track record in/as:
- Graphical and text based management report development
- Analysing and interpreting market data for an organisation, quickly establishing key metrics/measures to support business insights
- Strong communication skills and the demonstrable ability to communicate appropriately at all levels of the organization; this includes written and verbal communications
- Be able to identify and understand multiple stakeholder perspectives and "truths" and bring an open mind to understanding and build on the views of others
- Report developer, within a team on international projects
- Creating technical documentation
- Working with enterprise wide databases, observing global