Reporting Lead

Mercedes-Benz

  • Milton Keynes
  • Permanent
  • Full-time
  • 13 days ago
TasksJob Title: Reporting LeadClosing Date: 4 September 2025About usAt 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 committed to being a Menopause Friendly Employer. We offer wellbeing support options and resources to assist if you are directly affected by the Menopause, or are supporting someone who is going through the Menopause.How you'll play your partIn this role, you will lead the MI reporting function with the aim of maintaining strong relationships with business partners in order to provide analytical and technical support for prioritised analytics and BI activities. The role also uses reporting self-service to generate insights to help drive decisions within their business function.The role holder will be responsible for the MBFS UK Reporting, MI & Analytics initiatives, and will manage the central finance MI team suite of reports and reports for key regulatory projects which fall under the MI team remit. You will have accountability for managing the MI team reporting analyst, this includes leading the reporting team to produce the following deliverables:
  • Accountable for designing and deploying default, standard, structured, scheduled reporting and default user defined views. Accountable for building, maintaining and contributing to the standard reusable report library.
  • Accountable for developing and maintaining regulatory reporting.
  • Builds MBFS analytics and BI reporting capabilities while also ensuring distribution and delivery of high-quality analytics reporting solutions and BI reports.
  • Responsible for providing functional subject matter expertise for BI solutions.
  • Develops ad hoc reports, dashboards and interactive visualisations using 'Data Strategy' self-serve capabilities.
  • Analyses and interprets results for making decisions relevant to their business function.
Main AccountabilitiesReporting Team Leader:
  • Responsible for the line management of the MI team Reporting Analyst.
  • Responsible for the line management of any reporting deliverables that the MI / data apprentices produce.
  • Training & Mentoring of the MI team resources that are producing any MI reporting deliverables.
BI Solution Development:
  • Responsible for developing reports, dashboards and interactive visualisations.
  • Works with data warehouses, data integration and data modelling to support business decisions, leveraging data to gain key insights into business opportunities.
  • Responsible for ensuring the workflow components from data sourcing, data modelling, ingestion, content authoring, analysis, and insight delivery in the report library is followed
  • Performs the development of customized BI solutions as required by the business.
Technical Report Development:
  • Develops regulatory reporting requirements and works closely with Quality and Governance leads to ensure specifications are still relevant.
  • Extracts user requirements for analysis and reporting.
  • Conducts detailed data analysis using predefined data manipulation techniques in a self-service manner.
  • Scopes and frames requirements, analyses and interprets data.
Stakeholder Management:
  • Engage with and build relationships with senior stakeholders to ensure commitment and support to agreed initiatives. Work with all Business, Finance and MBFS support teams to shape structure and deliver the agreed activity.
  • Ensure that the status of the current activity is communicated effectively at the Executive level within MBFS via multiple channels and that the risks and issues are reported and escalated accordingly.
  • Manage team delivery risks and implement mitigating actions.
  • Co-ordinate and influence outcomes based on Data strategy in Data Forums.
This role requires close liaison with the other Go for Data lead roles (Quality / Governance) which together integrate with the Data Centre of Excellence / Enterprise data owner.About you
  • Team leadership and line management skills and experience.
  • Strong interpersonal & communications skills.
  • Strong understanding of the Data & Analytics discipline.
  • Comprehensive understanding of the organisation, business strategy, business processes & the importance and impact of data on the ability of the business to realise that strategy.
  • Knowledge of business rules and data standards.
  • Knowledge of business systems.
  • Basic report design skills.
  • Comprehensive understanding of the BI / Reporting programming languages (Cognos / PowerBI, Python & SQL).
  • Ability to interact with business partners through interpersonal and communication skills.
  • Understanding of BI concepts, best practices and tools.
  • Excellent analytical, technical and problem-solving skills.
  • Negotiation and communication skills and experience.
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?Please apply online via Taleo. Remember to include a copy of your CV too. You'll be asked a series of questions through the online application process, including one seeking confirmation that you have discussed your application for this position with your Line Manager. The Mercedes-Benz recruitment process reflects our obligations under relevant UK legislation. Whilst all applications from across Mercedes-Benz and Daimler globally are carefully considered, unless otherwise stated, 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.Managing your dataWe 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.

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