Business Intelligence Developer (Hybrid)

Company Description

Fastmarkets is an independent commodity pricing and information organisation with over 600 staff. We are fuelled by values that bring us all together and are united by a collective passion to make a difference. We are supported by a working model that is based on a hybrid approach that allows each of us to balance home and office working while encouraging effective collaboration and accountability.

Fastmarkets is the most trusted Price Reporting Agency (PRA) in the metals, mining, agriculture, forest products, and energy transition markets. Our price data, forecasts, and market analyses give our customers strategic advantage in complex, volatile, often opaque markets. Our events provide forums for market participants to come together, trade, and talk through the critical issues of our times.

We are making a difference. Fastmarkets works to create transparent commodity markets through our reliable and trusted price data and market intelligence. The markets we serve are central to how economies work and are essential for our lives. By doing this, Fastmarkets helps our customers build a more sustainable world. We are built on a 130-year foundation while bringing a digital platform to market, combining the currency of trust with the power of digital.

Most importantly, we are fuelled by our teams that, across the globe, make the amazing possible. With a deep sense of purpose and belonging, we are building an extraordinary future – together. If you would like to help build the future, we hope you will join us on our journey.

Fastmarkets is owned by global private equity firm Astorg, a specialist investor in healthcare, software, technology, business services and technology-based industrial companies.

Job Description

Fastmarkets Data team is a new and dynamic function supporting the business in developing and delivering our data strategy through data, insights, and business intelligence. Highly valued by the business we are working hard to transform data function and ways of working.

Reporting directly into ambitious BI Manager we are looking for the right candidate to work with business stakeholders and develop comprehensive BI solutions. This is a fantastic opportunity to join us in our journey to bring data, BI, Analytics, and Insights together into a high performing workstream in its own right.

We are seeking a BI Developer to develop and implement BI solutions aligned with Fastmarkets’ BI strategy.

The right candidate will have a strong business acumen and will be passionate about BI, data and analytics, and able to deliver on the priorities set by the business in a timely fashion. The role requires a hands-on experience with BI design and delivery including specialist knowledge of technologies involved in the implementation of data-based solutions.

Principal Accountabilities

• Design and develop BI solutions, including identifying and integrating data sources, defining as well as standardizing KPIs and drivers across the business, and selecting and implementing appropriate BI tools and technologies
• Develop and manage the product roadmap for BI solutions, working with Data Architect and Data Analysts to ensure successful data-based product launches
• Unlock and implement a governed self-service BI capability
• Enforce and enhance BI standards used for ETL/ELT and data visualisation
• Build and enforce data quality rules and standards within BI applications
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams to identify and prioritize business problems and develop data-driven solutions
• Provide end user training on new / enhanced BI applications and promote BI tool adoption within the business
• Monitor data loads and dashboard usage, optimize BI tool schedules and performance as well as allocation of licenses
• Stay current with industry trends, technologies, and best practices in BI space

Qualifications

We recruit talented, dynamic people with diverse backgrounds and experiences, all united by a belief in our mission to provide the world’s leading and most trusted price reporting, events, and intelligence service for the markets we serve. We’re proud to be an equal opportunities employer and are committed to creating a fully inclusive workplace, where everyone feels able to participate and contribute meaningfully.

If you are open-minded, curious, resilient, solutions-oriented and committed to promoting equality, then read on...

KNOWLEDGE, EXPERIENCE AND SKILLS

We are looking for an individual who is highly motivated, driven, and have a passion to be part of a fast-paced, successful team. Being a strong team player is also important as well as someone who is happy to work flexibly.

• Excellent analytical and problem-solving skills with experience working with large and complex data sets
• Full software life cycle development exposure within BI space
• 3+ years hands-on experience with BI tools and technologies, such as Qlik, PowerBI, Tableau etc. as well as a strong knowledge of SQL and/or Python
• Demonstrated knowledge of data warehousing concepts, ETL/ELT tools and processes as well as data modelling. Advantage is experience with modern data technology stack (Snowflake, dbt, Dagster)
• Independent curiosity and critical thinking; a history of taking initiative and questioning assumptions
• Ability to listen and understand commercial needs to craft a shared vision for a solution
• Experience of Subscriptions and Events businesses would be an advantage

If you're excited about the role but your experience, skills or qualifications don't perfectly align, we encourage you to apply anyway.

Additional Information

Our Values

Fastmarkets people come from all different walks of life. It’s this mix of brilliant personalities, experiences and insights that gives us that warm, open, and friendly culture you can feel as soon as you meet us. But however wonderfully different we all are, there are six things we all have in common – and they form our Fastmarkets values.

Created by our own employees to reflect some of the personal traits that Fastmarkets people have, our values are key to what makes our culture unique. They reflect who each of us are and they're embedded in everything we do. Our values are:

• METRICS DRIVEN. We use insights to improve our customers’ experience and our business performance
   
• ACCOUNTABLE. We are accountable to ourselves and those we work with: we keep our promises and get things done
   
• GROWTH MINDSET. This value enables us to be nimble to the changing realities and operate with a sense of urgency
   
• INCLUSIVE. We are inclusive and respectful, celebrating each of us and giving everyone a deep sense of belonging with the desire to bring their best self to work every day.
   
• CUSTOMER CENTRIC. We are customer-centric in all that we do
   
• COLLABORATIVE. We are collaborative, able to work across teams and capitalise on the diversity of intellect, perspectives, and experiences.

You’ve read a little about us – now it’s over to you!

If you like what you’ve read so far and think you can see yourself as a Fastmarkets person, it’s time to fill in your application form. This form is an important part of the selection process: it’s used to determine whether or not you’ll be chosen to have an interview and acts as a basis for the questions we’ll ask you on the day.

It’s vital that you try to capture all the relevant information we have asked for on the form so we can get a good feel for who you are and why you’re great.