Business Analyst (Analytics)

KPMG is one of the world’s leading professional services firms and the fastest growing Big Four accounting firm

About The Job:

• The Business Analyst in the Analytics CoE is responsible for supporting the end to end delivery of analytics use cases by translating business needs into clear, structured analytics and data requirements.
• The role acts as a bridge between business stakeholders and analytics delivery teams, ensuring that analytics solutions (dashboards, reports, data products) are accurate, relevant, and aligned to business decisions.
• The BA focuses on execution excellence, working under guidance of senior Client or product managers while owning well defined modules or use cases independently.

Essential Job Functions:
Business Understanding & Problem Framing

• Engage with business stakeholders to understand business processes, reporting needs, and decision requirements
• Support translation of business questions into analytics use cases and problem statements
• Identify key KPIs, metrics, and dimensions required to support business decisions
• Gain functional understanding of supported domains (e.g., Supply Chain, Finance, Operations)

Requirements Gathering & Documentation

• Gather and document business, functional, and analytical requirements
• Create clear artefacts such as: Business Requirement Documents (BRDs), Functional Requirement Specifications (FRS), User stories and acceptance criteria
• Define metric logic, calculation rules, data granularity, and filters
• Ensure requirements are unambiguous, testable, and aligned with analytics standards

Data Analysis & Validation

• Perform basic to intermediate data analysis to validate requirements and business logic
• Analyze datasets to identify trends, anomalies, and data quality issues
• Validate dashboards, reports, and KPIs from a business correctness perspective
• Support root cause analysis for data discrepancies and reporting issues

Analytics Delivery Support

• Work as part of an analytics delivery pod with Product Managers, Analytics Engineers, and Data Engineers
• Clarify requirements and answer business questions during development
• Participate in UAT, defect triage, and business sign off
• Ensure analytics outputs meet business expectations and usability standards

Stakeholder Communication

• Act as a day to day contact for business users on assigned analytics use cases
• Support preparation of insight summaries, walkthroughs, and demos
• Communicate clearly with technical teams using structured and precise language
• Escalate risks, gaps, and dependency issues to senior Client or managers in a timely manner

Documentation & Knowledge Management

• Maintain documentation such as: KPI definitions and metric catalogs, Process flows and data mappings, Assumptions and business rules
• Contribute to Analytics CoE knowledge repositories and standards
• Ensure continuity and reuse of analytics artefacts across initiatives

Role Scope & Growth

• Owns defined modules or reports within larger analytics initiatives
• Works under guidance of Senior Client / Product Managers
• Expected to grow into:
  • End to end use case ownership
  • Stakeholder facing senior BA responsibilities
  • Analytics product or solutioning roles

Qualifications:
Minimum Requirements

Functional Requirements

• 6–9 years of experience as a Business Analyst or Analytics Analyst
• Experience working in analytics, BI, or data driven environments
• Good understanding of business processes and performance metrics
• Exposure to domains such as SAP - Supply Chain, Finance, Sales, or Operations is preferred
• Experience working in cross functional, matrixed teams

Technical Requirements

• Hands on exposure to analytics and reporting platforms
• Experience working with SAP Analytics ecosystems (BW, HANA, S/4) is strongly preferred especially on O2C, P2P and R2R modules
• Solid understanding of: KPIs, facts, dimensions, hierarchies, Data aggregation and grain concepts
• Experience validating dashboards and reports (e.g., Power BI, Tableau, or similar)
• Ability to perform data validation using tools such as Excel, SQL or analytics platforms

Soft Skills

• Strong analytical and logical thinking
• Clear written and verbal communication skills
• Ability to translate business language into structured requirements
• Attention to detail and strong documentation discipline
• Comfortable working in a fast paced, delivery oriented environment
• Willingness to learn and grow into senior BA or analytics product roles