Job Title: BI & Performance Reporting Developer
Salary: Competitive + Benefits!
Location: Hybrid working, home & UK travel, as & when required (1-2 times per quarter)
Working Hours: Monday - Friday 40 hours per week
Job Status: Permanent
At cinch our mission is simple - to remove the faff from buying and owning cars, giving customers more choice, with more ease (not to mention a free 90-day warranty on all cars...)
Already the UK’s largest online used car retailer, we’re expanding our offering with an exciting roadmap of online and physical retail solutions - including faff-free car servicing at over 100 locations across the country.
We’re part of Constellation Automotive Group - a family of brands that also includes We Buy Any Car, British Car Auctions (BCA) and Marshall Motor Group. Together, cinch and Marshall operate as Constellation Retail - bringing together 100+ years of motoring know-how at 130+ stores (Marshall) with a market-leading digital experience from a much-admired brand (cinch).
The road ahead for you is clear. Join us and you’ll get a unique opportunity to grow your career across two leading automotive brands that are really going places. Buckle up and enjoy the ride.
What you’ll be working on
The BI & Performance Reporting team play a key role within the cinch Technology function, ensuring that trends, metrics and KPIs are available to a wide range of stakeholders to enable data-led business decisions.
The successful candidate will have a passion for providing data & insight through effective data modelling and data visualisation.
- Designing and developing BI solutions (reports, dashboards, apps, shared semantic models etc), predominantly using Power BI, to fulfil stakeholder requirements.
- Maintaining, monitoring and optimising BI solutions to ensure the credibility and integrity of the teams’ output, actioning bug fixes and opportunities for cost/time savings.
- Working alongside technical colleagues to build and uphold consistent data models within our cinch Data Warehouse, applying agreed business logic to complex data sources to cost-effectively translate data into reliable, scalable, and defensible data products.
- Building strong, open & trusting working relationships with key stakeholders, working with them to ensure BI & performance reporting at cinch is delivered in-line with requirements, enabling others to leverage the value of cinch’s data.
- Supporting non-technical colleagues across the business with information, guidance & training to make use of our BI solutions.
- Identifying opportunities to improve productivity by automating manual data processes.
- Constantly reviewing the strategic platform positioning to ensure BI solutions remain valuable, available & empowering.
- Regularly reviewing the output of your own & your peers’ work, ensuring high quality, adherence to best practice & punctual delivery of outputs - striving for excellence to maximise value to the team’s customers.
- Coaching, mentoring and gatekeeping BI development from colleagues outside of the BI & Performance Reporting team.
- Undertaking root cause analysis and assessments when service issues arise, making recommendations to mitigate future re-occurrence.
- Advocating for BI & data-driven decision making across cinch, championing and facilitating data democratisation across the organisation.
- Staying abreast of industry trends and best practices in the use of data and advanced BI methods and sharing knowledge acquired to drive continuous improvement.
Things we look for in you
- You’ll be an experienced BI & Performance Reporting Developer, with at least 3+ years of BI/MI development experience.
- You have demonstrable hands-on experience building automated reports, dashboards, apps and shared semantic models using Power BI (or similar BI Tools).
- You can showcase strong SQL skills – this is required as the primary means of modelling and querying data from the cinch Data Warehouse.
- You can demonstrate effective stakeholder management, building strong working relationships with all levels of seniority to qualify requirements and deliver MI/BI across fast paced environments.
- You can proactively and autonomously manage your time and prioritise workloads effectively - you can plan forward to ensure that business expectations and objectives can be managed and met.
- As a self-starter, you enjoy solving problems. You can take initiative with minimal supervision or guidance and are able to work effectively both independently and as a member of a cross functional team.
- You have a keen eye for detail, testing your work to ensure that outputs remain accurate and reliable.
Beneficial but not essential:
- Automotive market knowledge would be valuable but not a pre-requisite.
- Experience of using Snowflake & dbt to query and transform data to build models.
- Experience of using JIRA or other workload management tools.
- Knowledge of data warehousing best practice.
- Experience in Agile/Sprint/Kanban methodologies and ways of working, contributing to regular team ceremonies (sprints, retros etc)
cinch and Rewards
cinch’s benefits programme sees that our people are supported both in and out of work. That’s what a faff-free life is all about. We offer:
- Competitive salaries and bonuses
- A company pension scheme
- An Employee Assistance Programme
- Access to trained mental health first aiders
- Enhanced maternity, paternity, and adoption leave
And so much more!
cinch and You
In making the most out of a career at cinch you need to be curious, creative, and collaborative. See, we are putting you in the driver’s seat, in control of your career and ready to drive your own development. There’s no bureaucracy, no hierarchy, just an environment with values that bring us together and a purpose that sets us apart. Join us as we continue to accelerate, defy expectations, and revolutionise an entire industry.
cinch and Diversity and Inclusion
cinch wants to help all kinds of people in the UK find and buy a car. So, it makes good sense to have all kinds of people working with us on the challenge. Conversations and the decisions they lead to are better for featuring different voices. Representation matters.
And doing your job while not being your authentic self is not faff-free. Being free to be the best of who you are as you soar to professional greatness is the kind of business we commit to creating, as one.