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Charity / volunteering days
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BI Analytics Engineer

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The Vacancy

Company Overview

IRIS Software Group is one of the UK’s largest privately held software companies. Its purpose is to be the most trusted provider of mission-critical software and services, ensuring customers get it right first time, every time.

IRIS takes the pain out of processes and let professionals working in businesses and schools focus on the work they love. Its software solutions and services for finance, HR and payroll teams, educational organisations, and accountancy firms helps comply with regulations, drive productivity and better engage with key stakeholders. Through simplifying, automating and providing insights on everyday mission-critical tasks for organisations of all shapes and sizes, IRIS ensures customers can look forward with certainty and confidence.

IRIS has over 120,000 UK and international customers with 80% having a tenure of five or more years. IRIS is the largest third-party online filer with the UK Government. Ninety-one of the top 100 UK accountancy firms and 50 of the top 100 US CPA firms use IRIS software. Circa 20% of the UK’s workforce is paid by IRIS payroll offerings. More than 850,000 UK employees are managed by IRIS HR solutions. Over 11,000 UK schools and academies use IRIS, with four million parents and guardians using IRIS apps to connect with their children’s school; 300 million messages are delivered between schools and parents each year, and over £15 million transactional payments are processed every month. IRIS is placed 93rd in the Grant Thornton Sunday Times Top Track 250, which is compiled by Fast Track and published in The Sunday Times each September, celebrates Britain's private mid-market growth companies with the biggest performance.

To see how IRIS helps organisations get things right first time, every time, visit www.iris.co.uk or follow IRIS Software Group on LinkedIn, Twitter and Instagram.
 

Job Summary
  • Using existing financial acumen translate business needs into technical specifications following requests from departments within IRIS.
  • Using warehouse data to develop and generate reports to support customers in their business decision-making and business performance monitoring.
  • Generating and delivering quality reports to customers and performing quality assurance checks on reports.

Main Responsibilities

 
  • Maintaining and development of the OLAP data cubes.
  • Support Calumo product including report-writing, support, and implementation.
  • Maintaining data analytics platforms such as Calumo.
  • Evaluating and improving existing BI systems to further the use of Calumo.
  • Conducting troubleshooting on BI models within Calumo for support requests.
  • Creating and maintaining ETL jobs within SQL Server for all customers using Calumo.
  • Create and maintain SSIS packages to integrate data into Calumo data warehouse.
  • Expert in working with data warehouse models using MDX, experience with SSRS
  • Deployment and configuration of reporting solutions including related work in Microsoft SQL Server, its services (in particular, Analysis Services), Microsoft Office and the web.
  • Support and contribute to ongoing data and Product integration activities across the business.
  • Excellent English, both verbal and written communication skills.
  • Ability to work independently in a matrix environment.
 

2. Person specification

 

Domain Experience
  • Must have an Accounting / Finance domain background
  • BI/Analytics reporting of financial data.

 

Qualifications
  • Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Science, Math, Engineering or comparable major.
  • Financial / Accounting training essential.

 

Knowledge/Experience Technical Skills Required
  • SQL Server – Expert Level
  • T-SQL – Expert Level
  • SSAS – Expert Level
  • SSIS – Intermediate Level
  • C# - Intermediate Level
  • Microsoft’s Reporting Services (SSRS)– Expert Level
  • Data warehouse models using MDX - Expert Level
  • OLAP data cubes - Expert Level
  • Visual Studio – Expert Level
  • Microsoft Azure skills - beneficial

Must be able to rapidly acquire domain skills

 

About IRIS

As one of the UK’s largest privately held software companies, IRIS Software Group exists to simplify the lives of businesses, schools and organisations.

IRIS provides software solutions and services that substantially enhance operational compliance, efficiency and accuracy, empowering the users of our technology to look forward with certainty and confidence.

Over 4 million parents use our software to connect with their child’s school, 18% of UK employees are paid via an IRIS payroll solution, 50,000 SMEs use IRIS cloud bookkeeping and 21,000 firms rely on us for legislative compliance.

Our operational software is the invisible but essential beating heart of our customers’ businesses, supporting them in a range of objectives, from maintaining legislative compliance to boosting engagement with stakeholders and enhancing productivity.

It’s vital these mission-critical functions work first time, every time.

That’s why IRIS helps businesses run the tough stuff, stay compliant and get operational tasks done right first time, every time – so they can focus on productivity and growth.

IRIS is a company built on hiring the best people; our people are our greatest assets.

They enable us to be the innovative, market-leading, and high-performing company that we are today.

We’re delighted to be certified as a Great Place to Work and one of the UK’s Best Workplaces for Women.

These accolades confirm that our employees have a consistently positive experience at IRIS, with the certifications considering employee wellbeing, diversity and inclusion, trust in management, effective communication and recognition/reward.

IRIS is committed to engaging, rewarding and empowering our employees, and this is central to what we do.

This is why we work to create an environment where employees feel like they are part of a team.

Generous holiday allowance

Charity / volunteering days

Income protection insurance

Life assurance

Employee Assistance Program

Private healthcare

Enhanced maternity pay

Additional discount
schemes

Cycle to work
scheme

Developing your career

We believe in creating a culture of engagement and reward to develop your potential and offer long-term career success. We do this by:

Supporting our managers to be great leaders, providing inspirational management resources and offering dedicated management development training.

Rewarding individual excellence through dedicated initiatives and Employee Awards for demonstrating our values.

Offering regular training and development programmes tailored to each employee’s development needs and providing a commitment to a ‘learning culture’ which shares knowledge, best practice and our long-standing expertise between employees.

We’re committed to a culture of continuous improvement and listen to our employees via regular feedback sessions and employee engagement surveys.

Our employees love the colleagues they work with. We promote a positive environment where our people feel comfortable, make friends and support each other.

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