Job Summary
The Head of Business Intelligence leads the enterprise BI and reporting function, transforming organizational data into reliable insights, dashboards, management reporting, and decision-support tools.
Within Insurance & Investments, the role supports business performance across underwriting, claims, customer analytics, finance, risk, compliance, investment performance, portfolio management, and executive reporting.
Key Responsibilities
Develop and execute the enterprise Business Intelligence strategy and roadmap.
Lead BI, reporting, data visualization, and management-information functions.
Establish enterprise-wide reporting standards, KPIs, metrics, and data definitions.
Develop executive dashboards and performance-management solutions.
Lead self-service BI and analytics adoption across business functions.
Design and manage:
Enterprise dashboards
Management reports
Operational reporting
Executive reporting
KPI scorecards
Performance analytics
Regulatory reporting solutions
Partner with Data Engineering and IT teams on data warehouses, data lakes, data marts, ETL/ELT, APIs, and data integration.
Ensure BI outputs are based on accurate, consistent, governed, and trusted data.
Establish data-quality and reporting-control processes.
Support advanced analytics and data-science teams with reliable analytical datasets.
Translate business requirements into BI solutions and analytical products.
Identify trends, patterns, opportunities, and performance issues through data analysis.
Lead BI modernization, automation, and migration to cloud-based analytics platforms.
Oversee BI tools such as Power BI, Tableau, Qlik, Looker, or equivalent platforms.
Establish BI governance, access controls, security, and reporting standards.
Ensure reporting supports finance, risk, compliance, audit, and regulatory requirements.
Manage BI vendors, consultants, licenses, budgets, and technology partners.
Lead and develop BI analysts, developers, data analysts, and reporting teams.
Establish BI KPIs, SLAs, delivery standards, and quality controls.
Present key insights and business-performance trends to senior leadership.
Insurance & Investments BI Focus
Insurance
BI solutions may cover:
Premium and revenue performance
Underwriting performance
Claims frequency and severity
Loss ratios
Policyholder/customer analytics
Retention and churn
Distribution/channel performance
Fraud indicators
Product profitability
Operational KPIs
Regulatory reporting
Investments / Asset Management
BI solutions may cover:
Portfolio performance
Investment returns
Asset allocation
Risk exposure
AUM reporting
Investment-product performance
Market analytics
Client/investor reporting
Portfolio attribution
Trading/transaction analytics
Financial performance
Ideal Candidate Profile
10–15+ years in Business Intelligence, analytics, data, reporting, or technology.
5+ years in BI/analytics leadership.
Previous experience as:
Head of Business Intelligence
Head of BI
Head of Business Analytics
Head of Analytics
Director of Business Intelligence
BI Director
Director of Analytics
Director of Data & Analytics
VP Business Intelligence
VP Analytics
Experience in Insurance, Banking, Investment Management, Asset Management, Wealth Management, or Financial Services preferred.
Strong expertise in:
Business Intelligence
Data visualization
Executive dashboards
KPI/reporting frameworks
Data analytics
Data warehousing
ETL/ELT
Data integration
Data governance
Self-service analytics
Strong knowledge of Power BI, Tableau, Qlik, Looker, or equivalent BI platforms.
Understanding of SQL, data modelling, dimensional modelling, and analytical data architecture.
Experience working with cloud data platforms and modern BI environments.
Strong understanding of financial-services KPIs and reporting requirements.
Strong stakeholder-management skills across Finance, Risk, Operations, Investments, IT, and executive leadership.
Relevant bachelor's degree; Master's in Data Analytics, Business Intelligence, Computer Science, Statistics, Finance, or related discipline is advantageous.
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