Analytics Manager

Overview

Reporting Lead for Ocean reporting in a centralized reporting team. Owns the reporting portfolio, leads and develops reporting professionals, and retains hands-on technical depth in Power BI and Excel.

What you'll do

• Functionally own the Ocean reporting portfolio, roadmap, standards, and delivery outcomes.
• Translate business priorities into a transparent, value-based backlog and make informed trade-offs across new development, enhancements, maintenance, and technical debt.
• Act as the primary functional point of contact for relevant stakeholders, aligning them on requirements, priorities, dependencies, risks, and expected outcomes.
• Drive standardization, governance, adoption, and lifecycle decisions across the reporting portfolio, including consolidation and decommissioning where appropriate.
• Accountable for the timely and accurate delivery of all reports within the reporting scope, including monitoring service levels, managing delivery risks, and ensuring stakeholder communication and escalation.
• Lead reporting professionals directly or indirectly by setting clear priorities, coordinating work, and maintaining accountability for quality and delivery.
• Coach team members, provide technical and functional guidance, and support capability development and ways of working.
• Plan capacity, manage dependencies, and remove impediments to ensure reliable delivery against agreed commitments.
• Foster collaboration across reporting, data, finance, and business teams while promoting constructive challenge and continuous improvement.
• Personally design and deliver advanced Power BI dashboards, semantic models, and Excel-based reporting solutions when required.
• Own complex developments end to end, from requirements and solution design through data modelling, development, testing, deployment, documentation, and continuous improvement.
• Write and optimize SQL queries and stored procedures for complex transformations, and use Python where appropriate to automate reporting or support advanced analytics.
• Review and troubleshoot solutions developed by others, ensuring sound design, maintainability, performance, and a consistent user experience.
• Utilize Databricks, Dremio, and other platforms to build custom queries and reporting logic.
• Develop standardized templates and reusable components to scale reporting.
• Introduce and champion new technologies to improve efficiency and scalability.
• Support automation of recurring reporting tasks and refresh processes, and proactively identify opportunities to reduce manual effort.
• Ensure all deliverables comply with documentation and governance standards.
• Identify and implement AI-enabled solutions to improve reporting efficiency, report development productivity, data validation, and user self-service.

What you'll need

• Proven experience functionally owning a reporting, BI, or analytics scope comparable to Ocean reporting, including roadmap management, demand prioritization, stakeholder alignment, governance, and delivery accountability.
• Demonstrated ability to manage and develop a team directly or indirectly, with experience setting priorities, delegating work, coaching colleagues, and maintaining accountability for outcomes.
• Advanced hands-on expertise in Power BI, Excel, Power Query (M), and DAX, including the design of scalable semantic models and enterprise reporting solutions.
• Strong SQL skills and practical experience using Python for automation or analytics.
• Strong stakeholder management, communication, facilitation, and presentation skills, with the confidence to challenge constructively and drive decisions.
• Proven ability to translate complex business requirements into clear priorities, scalable technical solutions, and user-friendly reporting deliverables.
• Sound understanding of reporting governance, quality assurance, documentation, adoption, and solution lifecycle management.
• Solid knowledge of financial statements, variance analysis, and budgeting and forecasting processes.
• Comfort working in an Agile environment and managing work through tools such as Jira.
• Champion the adoption of AI and emerging technologies across the reporting function, driving productivity, process simplification, automation, and enhanced stakeholder experiences.
• Bachelor's or Master's degree in Finance, Business, Engineering, Computer Science, or a related field.
• Typically 7+ years of relevant experience in BI, reporting, or analytics, including substantial hands-on report development experience.
• Previous experience leading people, a workstream, or a reporting portfolio, with clear accountability for delivery and stakeholder outcomes.

Nice to have

• Experience with platforms such as Databricks, Dremio, and Power Automate.

Details

• Location: any one of Mumbai, Chennai, or Pune.