Power BI Specialist / Data Analyst – GJA 16

Location: Brussels, BRU, BE

Employment Type: Full time

Role Overview 

As a Power BI Specialist / Functional Data Analyst at ING, you will play a key role in turning data made available to you into clear, reliable and actionable business insights. Your work will help teams, management and front-office stakeholders make faster, smarter and better-informed decisions.

In this role, you will:

• Translate business questions into relevant views, datasets and data products that make insights easy to access and use.
• Maintain, design and optimize Power BI data models to deliver high-performing, scalable and trusted reporting solutions for management and front-office teams.
• Develop, automate and enhance Power BI dashboards, ensuring that available data is transformed into meaningful insights that support performance steering, prioritization and decision-making.
• Create compelling visualizations and narratives that translate complex data into clear, intuitive and business-relevant stories.

Key Responsibilities 

Data Modeling and Collaboration: 

• Partner with business stakeholders to understand their objectives, clarify problem statements and define how available data should be transformed, enriched and presented for maximum impact.
• Design and optimize Power BI data models that are robust, performant and intuitive, enabling advanced features such as hierarchical filtering, drill-down analysis and multi-level organizational structures.

Reporting and Automation: 

• Contribute to the development of a Power BI Center of Expertise by promoting best practices in dashboard design, data modeling, performance optimization and governance.
• Develop and automate the underlying processes required for recurring reports, including weekly, monthly, quarterly and annual reporting cycles.
• Build interactive dashboards and reports that deliver actionable insights, highlight key trends and enable users to explore the data independently.

As a Power BI Specialist / Functional Data Analyst, you should have the following qualifications and competences:

Qualifications 

• Master’s degree in Mathematics, Economics, Computer Science, Information Management or alike, and/or equivalent experience of 5 years.
• Minimum 5 years relevant experience in data analytics
• Experienced in SQL.
• Strong expertise in Power BI data modeling, advanced DAX, report performance optimization and dashboard development.
• Advanced experience in developing, automating and maintaining reporting solutions using Power BI.
• Experience with tools such as SAS is a plus
• Experience in analytical work with large datasets and relational databases.

Core Competencies 

• To be customer driven and focused, loving to collaborate with different people.
• An entrepreneurial attitude – taking initiative and making things happen.
• Be analytical and insight-driven: curious about banking and business performance, able to identify patterns in data and translate them into concise, relevant conclusions.
• Open to learn other dashboarding solutions
• Banking knowledge is a plus
• Be able to influence and convince peers and stakeholders by clearly explaining analytical results, business implications and recommended actions.
• Fluent in English and Dutch or French