BI Business Analyst

We are looking for a BI Business Partner to join our growing Data Team. The BI Business Partner acts as the critical link between the business and the BI development team, ensuring that everything the team builds is grounded in a real business need. Sitting between our stakeholders across the firm and our BI Developers, this role translates business questions into clear, well-defined requirements, and works with the BI Manager to prioritise the JIRA backlog so the team is always working on what matters most. This is a highly collaborative, stakeholder-facing role suited to someone who can speak the language of both the business and the data team, and who takes ownership of outcomes rather than just outputs.

Our mission is to improve everyone’s relationship with their wealth: to make it a positive force for their future and at the same time to prevent it being a source of anxiety. We want everyone who works at Saltus to be proud to work here, and to find fulfilment and meaning in the work that they do. We are incredibly proud of our culture and work really hard to ensure that Saltus is a great place to work for our people, where they can have fun and grow in their career, with a passion for excellence and customer service.

Join our award-winning team and be a part of our continued success! Saltus is a privately owned financial planning and discretionary investment management house. We are dedicated to providing a high-quality service for private clients, trusts, and smaller institutions. Saltus Partners was founded in 2004 and has grown organically and through a small number of carefully integrated acquisitions. Today Saltus manages and advises on over £11 billion of client assets, acquired through a combination of organic business growth and corporate acquisitions.

What does this role look like?

• Act as the primary go between for business stakeholders and the BI developers, ensuring requirements are clearly understood on both sides.
• Partner with business stakeholders across the firm (e.g. financial planning, operations, compliance) to understand their goals and translate them into well defined BI requirements.
• Challenge and refine incoming requests to ensure the underlying business question is properly understood before development begins, not just the surface-level ask.
• Work closely with the BI Manager to prioritise the JIRA backlog, ensuring tickets are well-scoped, appropriately sequenced, and reflect business value and urgency.
• Own the creation and upkeep of epics, stories and tickets in JIRA, including acceptance criteria, so developers have what they need to build the right solution first time.
• Validate delivered dashboards, reports and data products against the original business question, ensuring genuine business value is delivered not just a technically complete ticket.
• Provide regular visibility to stakeholders on progress, timelines and trade offs, managing expectations proactively.
• Identify recurring themes or gaps in business requests and feed these back into the team’s roadmap and prioritisation discussions.
• Support adoption of delivered BI solutions, gathering feedback and feeding enhancement requests back into the backlog.
• Champion best practice in requirement gathering and backlog management across the wider BI team.

Technical competencies/Skillsets desired:

• Degree level qualification (2:1 or higher), ideally in a related field, and around 5 years’ experience in BI development, data analysis, or a similar role.
• Experience in wealth management, asset management, or broader financial services, with an understanding of the industry’s data and reporting needs.
• Proven experience with Power BI dashboards and strong data visualisation skills enough to have informed conversations with developers on feasibility, data models and design trade offs.
• Advanced SQL skills.
• Practical JIRA experience for backlog management, ticket writing and prioritisation (epics, sprints, story grooming).
• A strong track record as a business analyst, product owner, or BI/data business partner, turning ambiguous business needs into clear technical requirements.
• A can-do, outcomes-first mindset using initiative to spot opportunities and solve challenges with data, and thriving on suggesting solutions rather than just flagging issues.
• Excellent stakeholder management, communication and interpersonal skills, with the confidence to challenge requests constructively across technical and non-technical audiences.
• A genuine passion for data-driven insights and their impact on business performance.

Where will I be working?

We are looking for someone to be based out of our Whiteley office, and offer hybrid working, which includes 3 days in the office, with the remainder at home. We’re incredibly flexible about when and how you work: we don’t want anyone to be prevented from coming to work for Saltus as a result of the working pattern that they’re looking for.

What benefits do I get when working for Saltus?

The salary is between £40,000 to £60,000pa, alongside 28 days’ holiday (plus bank holidays), life assurance, income protection and a pension, alongside access to our flexible benefits platform. The role is 40 hours per week between the hours of 8.30-5.30pm. Just as importantly, you’ll get to experience our culture, which we really do live and breathe ensuring that Saltus is a fantastic place to work for every single one of our 500+ people. We work hard, but we have an awful lot of fun along the way.