Enterprise Data Owner, Team Lead & Senior Business Intelligence (BI) Developer in Milton Keynes

About us
At Mercedes-Benz Financial Services, our employees are at the heart of our business. Our colleagues provide a range of financial solutions designed around the changing needs of our diverse customers. It doesn’t matter the colour of your skin, the beliefs you value, the people you love or the tattoos you wear, we support you for being you. Through the doors of Mercedes-Benz Financial Services, you will find a passionate team working to support our customers and our colleagues. We ensure that everyone has an equal opportunity to learn and develop. We want to celebrate your individuality, embrace your personality and welcome you into our culture. It’s the differences of our colleagues that enable us to thrive. We believe our backgrounds, skills and cultures contribute to our shared culture and help us deliver outstanding Customer Experience. Inclusion is the driving force behind our ethos. At MBFS, we are proud to be a Menopause Friendly Accredited Employer, reflecting our ongoing commitment to creating a supportive and inclusive workplace. We offer wellbeing support options and resources for colleagues experiencing menopause and to those who are supporting someone through it.

How you’ll play your part
In this role, you will be central to our data transformation journey. You will lead the Data & MI team, own key data platforms, and help move MBFS from a legacy data warehouse environment to a modern Microsoft Azure-based data lake architecture. You will shape how data is governed, managed and used across the business, creating trusted reporting, stronger financial insight and improved decision-making. The role combines people leadership, hands-on BI expertise, data ownership and business partnering. You will bring a strong customer focus, using data to solve real business problems and improve the quality, speed and relevance of insight delivered to Finance and wider MBFS stakeholders. You will also challenge legacy processes, improve data quality and lead the creation of valued, future-ready reporting and analytics.

Main Accountabilities
Lead and develop the Data & MI team, ensuring the team has the right skills, priorities and delivery focus across data governance, quality assurance, analysis, Cognos reporting and Power BI development:

• Manage MI team resources, including:
• Data Quality Assurance
• Data Governance
• Report Modeller & Developer
• Report Developers
• Cognos reporting

• Own and continuously improve the data warehouse and data lake environment, ensuring business-critical reporting platforms remain stable, trusted and aligned to the future data architecture:
• Existing Cognos data warehouse reports, interfaces and statements
• Existing SQL-based data warehouse
• Power BI and Databricks reporting catalogue
• New Microsoft Azure cloud data lake.

• Deliver BI analytics, dashboards and reports that provide high-quality Finance insight, support regulatory and risk reporting commitments, and enable better decision-making across MBFS:
• Migration of reports from the legacy data warehouse to the new data lake
• Creation of a suite of Finance dashboards
• Ensure regulatory and risk reporting commitments are met
• Support reporting delivered by wider business data analysts
• Introduce advanced analytics within MBFS.

• Act as Lead Data Steward, embedding data governance standards, improving data quality, supporting user certification and acting as an escalation point for data issues:
• Provide business expertise, acting as a Subject Matter Expert (SME) with contextual knowledge of the data used to enable key business processes
• Enforce data governance policies created by the Data Governance Committee
• Be accountable for user certification of designated business data usage
• Provide oversight and reporting on data quality
• Acts as an escalation point for Data Stewards
• Collaborates with front-line data stewards to ensure best practices are being followed
• Escalate data issues to the Enterprise Data Steward and Data Governance Committee for resolution.

• Act as Enterprise Data Owner, shaping the MBFS data vision, tracking data business benefits and influencing future tooling and capability decisions:
• Data Vision & Strategy
• Data business case tracking
• Future data tooling

About you
Technical skills and experience:

• Strong Power BI experience, including dashboard design, report development and Power BI Report Builder.
• Good understanding of data models, schemas and reporting structures.
• Strong DAX capability, including measures, calculations, KPIs and common data entities.
• Working knowledge of Databricks, Azure Data Factory and Microsoft Azure data lakes.
• Strong SQL capability, including queries, stored procedures and integration processes.
• Advanced Microsoft Excel skills.
• Experience using Power Automate, Power Pivot, Microsoft Teams, SharePoint and OneDrive to improve operational efficiency.
• Understanding of database management systems and ETL frameworks.
• Strong understanding of BI concepts, best practice and reporting governance.
• Cognos experience would be advantageous but is not essential.

Business skills and behaviours:

• Customer-focused mindset with the ability to create dashboards and insights that solve meaningful business problems.
• Strong communication, negotiation and influencing skills, with the confidence to lead stakeholders through complex data topics.
• Clear understanding of how data quality affects business performance, risk management and decision-making.
• Experience of data quality principles, tools and improvement approaches.
• Experience in business process improvement, quality assurance or continuous improvement.
• Strong understanding of business processes and how data enables operational and financial outcomes.
• Appreciation of data management as a business discipline, not only a technical function.
• Understanding of OLAP, business intelligence technologies and reporting concepts.
• Ability to translate technical data concepts into clear business insight for non-technical audiences.
• Strong working knowledge of available data sources and how they connect across business processes.
• Collaborative working style with the ability to build cooperation across business stakeholders, analysts and technical teams.

What’s in it for you?
We’ll offer you a competitive salary and discretionary bonus structure. We also hope you’ll love our products as much as we do, with access to our colleague car schemes. On top of that, you’ll be able to join our pension scheme and you’ll get a flexible benefit pot that can be used to find the benefits that are right for you. We’re here to support you – we offer access to colleague wellbeing resources, including an Employee Assistance Programme, Mental Health First Aiders and the Inclusion Advocates as well as flexible opportunities to support work life balance. We’ll also encourage your development, with the training and knowledge you need to reach your potential. Through the doors of Mercedes-Benz Financial Services, you’ll find a passionate team working to put our customers first. We know that to keep this team motivated, we need to ensure that everyone has equal opportunity to learn and develop. We celebrate a culture of appreciation and respect, where everyone is valued for who they are. We believe our backgrounds, experiences and cultures contribute to our shared experience and shape who we are and what we do. The diversity of our colleagues reflects the diversity of our customers. This diversity is the driving force behind our ideas.

What’s next?
When you apply, you’ll be asked to complete a short online application where we’ll ask that you include your current CV. You’ll also be asked some application questions, including your current salary information. The Mercedes-Benz recruitment process reflects our obligations under relevant UK legislation. Whilst all applications are carefully considered, we are only able to progress applications from candidates who have the right to work in the United Kingdom. Please be assured that we’re here to support you throughout the recruitment process and beyond, and reasonable adjustments are available to any candidates who need them. We’re also open to working flexibly and are happy to discuss flexible working options. As applications are reviewed on an ongoing basis, this vacancy may close before the advertised closing date. Early applications are encouraged.

Managing your data
We care about your personal data. The General Data Protection Regulation provides you with more control and by submitting an application to us, we consider this to be an agreement to process your personal data in support of our recruitment and selection process. Data categories that we process in relation to your application are the ones that you provided as part of the application process. We process your personal data in relation to the application, in accordance with the legal requirements. Recipients of your personal data within our company are the managers of the specialist unit in charge of filling the position and the responsible colleagues from HR. Your application data is held within our secure application tracking system called Taleo – you’ll be given access to a candidate zone in this system where you can monitor and manage your application and see status updates. We will communicate with you, by email or phone throughout the recruitment process so that we can keep you updated and inform you of your progress through the recruitment process. You can also seek ‘job alerts’ once you are registered in Taleo and it’s possible your details may be returned in searches we conduct for new positions and we may contact you by email to let you know about them. We limit the storage of your data to the necessary period. Contact us at careers@mercedes-benz.com for further information. If you have any questions about any matter relating to data protection or the personal data that we process about you for the purpose of personnel recruiting, please contact the Chief Officer of Corporate Data Protection for the Mercedes-Benz Group AG at the following address: Mercedes-Benz Group AG, HPC E600, 70546 Stuttgart, data.protection@mercedes-benz.com.