Data Business Analyst

Role Overview

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Pantheon has been at the forefront of private markets investing for more than 40 years, earning a reputation for providing innovative solutions covering the full lifecycle of investments, from primary fund commitments to co-investments and secondary purchases, across private equity, real assets and private credit.
We have partnered with more than 650 clients, including institutional investors of all sizes as well as a growing number of private wealth advisers and investors, with approximately $65bn in discretionary assets under management (as of December 31, 2023).
Leveraging our specialized experience and global team of professionals across Europe, the Americas and Asia, we invest with purpose and lead with expertise to build secure financial futures.
For further details please visit www.pantheon.comPurpose of Position
An exciting opportunity has arisen for an experienced Data Business Analyst to join Pantheon’s Transformation Delivery team to support delivery of organisational transformation. Over recent years, Pantheon has experienced breath-taking growth with global expansion, new product offerings and significant increase in AUM; this has translated into a program of transformational change, focussed on the Operations and IT teams. The Data Business Analyst will have the opportunity to engage with the business at all levels and ability to support the project delivery across multiple key areas including strategy and architecture, business change, systems development and implementation. The role is to be recruited on a permanent basis.
The successful candidate will have experience in working across various Technology and Operational change projects, especially data focussed projects such as Data Warehouse change, and wider Transformation projects. They will be experts in the practice of developing and implementing data analyses, data collection systems and other strategies that optimize statistical efficiency and quality.  Furthermore, the candidate will have strong stakeholder management skills and ability to work independently with technical and non-technical stakeholders at all levels of seniority.
The successful candidate will be part of the Transformation Delivery programme to support and drive the implementation of enterprise wide improvements.
Key Responsibilities
The Data Business Analyst is expected to assume the following key responsibilities plus any other reasonable duties as required:

Run workshops to gather business data reporting and analytical requirements and convert them into clear specific requirements documents, collaborating with technology and business team partners to drive consensus
Build source data maps for database & file data sources and contribute to the establishment of a source data dictionary and entity relationship diagrams representing Pantheon data platform
Contribute to the establishment of data rules for cleanliness confirmation and transformation
Elicit and document end-to-end AS IS/TO BE business process flows, data flows and requirements at the appropriate level of detail
Develop a clear understanding of the project, including objectives, scope and success criteria; proactively obtain any clarifications where necessary
Establish relationships with key stakeholders and subject matter experts including laying the foundations for the upcoming analysis
Uphold architecture standards for documenting and maintaining business process flows, data models and related artefacts
Work with architecture colleagues to validate requirements against solution proposals
Support the business and IT teams through all system life cycle phases
Ensure successful adoption of business and IT change within the business community by maintaining engagement with the user base, enabling training and support as required
Provide periodic progress reporting as required

Knowledge & Experience Required 
Functional

Experience in large data projects focused on reporting and analysis tools such as Power BI and ETL platforms such as Azure Data Bricks, Informatica, SSIS etc.
Strong knowledge of and experience of data analysis using SQL and Excel
Experience with backlog management in Azure DevOps or Jira
Demonstrable track record delivering high quality data analysis by distilling large and varied data sources to produce actionable business insight in data projects
Demonstrable track record developing and enhancing data models
BA experience in financial services, ideally within Private Equity or Fund Management
Ability to elicit and documenting end-to-end business process flows at all levels using BPMN
Ability to elicit and document detailed business requirements including provision of rationale and relevant context
Ability to work in a systematic, coherent and objective manner, demonstrating rigorous evaluation skills to arrive at an optimal solution
Adept at queries, report writing and presenting findings
Significant experience of waterfall and agile project life cycles within a structured environment.
Well versed with Microsoft Visio for production of process maps and data models
Strong track record of successful delivery against project objectives and delivering fit for purpose solutions
Consistently own and drive through issues to a successful conclusion with the respective teams in a timely manner