Scientist – Reporting Transformation
Location: North America, Hybrid (min. 3 days a week at an AXA XL office)
(major office locations are New York City, NY; Hartford, CT; Stamford, CT; Morristown, NJ; Exton, PA)
(major office locations are New York City, NY; Hartford, CT; Stamford, CT; Morristown, NJ; Exton, PA)
AXA XL recognizes digital, data and information assets are critical for the business, both in terms of managing risk and enabling new business opportunities. Data and Insights should not only be high quality, but also actionable – enabling AXA XL’s executive leadership team to maximize benefits and achieve sustained competitive advantage. Our Innovation, Data & Analytics (IDA) function is focused on driving innovation by optimizing how we leverage digital, data and AI to drive strategy and differentiate ourselves from the competition.
As we develop an enterprise-wide data and digital strategy that moves us toward greater focus on the use of data and strengthen our capabilities, we are seeking a Scientist to join our BI & Reporting function, as part of our Reporting Transformation team.
In this role, you will be the lead BI & Reporting point of contact in the Americas region, and will lead team efforts to enhance, transform and streamline the BI platform landscape. You will be our ambassador of new and existing BI solutions across the region, and must be comfortable proactively engaging with business users. This will enable the organisation to gain necessary, timely insights to drive business decisions, build our competitive advantage and help differentiate in the market through easy-to-use, scalable, cost effective, secure, and high-performance BI platforms.
In this role, you will report to the Division Lead, Reporting Transformation (UK based). You will work within a global team in your day-to-day work with teams and business users around the world.
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What will your essential responsibilities include?
- Be the lead BI & Reporting point of contact in the Americas region, and will lead team efforts to enhance, transform and streamline the BI platform landscape. You will build relationships with new and existing business users, and understand how data and BI can improve decision making.
- Be a technical lead on the development of new BI Reporting solutions in the team, and ensure new products are fit for customer purpose, built to best practice standards, and efficiently utilise company resources and data assets.
- Be able to work directly with customers in the business, to understand requirements, design new solutions and troubleshoot issues, as well as prioritise work based upon a deep customer understanding.
- Be able to advise the wider team and bring industry best practice techniques to ensure our BI platforms are well-governed, maintained, remain secure and optimized for our customers.
- Enable business to self-service and meet BI demands through provision and ongoing management of appropriate tools, coupled with leading relevant training for the business.
- Proactively partner with key areas within Global Technology, Transformation & Change Delivery, Group and other teams for Projects and for Business-as-Usual deliverables.
- Instill a customer-first culture, prioritizing service for our business stakeholders above all else.
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We’re looking for someone who has these abilities and skills:
Essential
- High proficiency in use, development and solution design in Microsoft Power BI, with experience of usage in large, global, and complicated organisation.
- Ability to communicate effectively directly with users, peers, teams across the globe, manage stakeholders effectively and navigate a matrixed virtual global organisation.
- Brings in a collaborative spirit, can-do attitude and a Customer First mindset to everything they put their mind to.
- Passion for digital, data and AI and experience working within a digital and data driven organisation.
- Intermediate experience in a BI or related role (Reporting, Analytics, Data, etc.) supporting and leading projects in multiple specialty areas of Data and Analytics.
- A minimum of a bachelor or master’s degree in a relevant discipline.
- Applies in-depth knowledge of business and specialized areas to solve problems and understand integration challenges and long-term impact creatively and strategically.
- Is a self-starter who can operate independently and lead others in the team in strategic thinking and solution design.
Preferable
- Experience of enterprise level use of Microsoft BI & Reporting suite of products (Synapse, Power Platform etc.).
- Ability to operate and thrive in an agile team working environment (inc. use of Jira and other workflow tools).
- Insurance experience with both financial and non-financial metric understanding.
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