Business Intelligence Analyst

Why PlayStation?

PlayStation isn’t just the Best Place to Play — it’s also the Best Place to Work. Today, we’re recognized as a global leader in entertainment producing The PlayStation family of products and services including PlayStation®5, PlayStation®4, PlayStation®VR, PlayStation®Plus, acclaimed PlayStation software titles from PlayStation Studios, and more.

PlayStation also strives to create an inclusive environment that empowers employees and embraces diversity. We welcome and encourage everyone who has a passion and curiosity for innovation, technology, and play to explore our open positions and join our growing global team.

The PlayStation brand falls under Sony Interactive Entertainment, a wholly-owned subsidiary of Sony Corporation.

Role Overview:

This position is for a temporary engagement through our staffing partner DZConneX (Yoh Services). The anticipated duration of this engagement will vary and will be a minimum of 12 months. We do require someone to be onsite in our Liverpool office for a minimum of 2-3 days per week, with flexibility.

As a Business Intelligence Analyst, you will focus on supporting QA teams by gathering and analysing operational data trends, visualising metrics, performing data/report audits, and monitoring operations with reports and dashboards.

What you will be doing:

BI Analysis:

• Develop highly functional and visually appealing Tableau dashboards and reports based on SQL data sources.
• Write SQL queries to organise and analyse data and ensure optimal report/dashboard performance.
• Update data mappings to support ETL/ELT processes/jobs.
• Work with other analysts and business team members to gather requirements for new reports/dashboards or add new features to existing ones.
• Gain deep understanding of our data to perform ad-hoc analysis and prepare business recommendations to management supported by data.
• Work with other analysts to clean data and support ETL/ELT processes.
• Analyse complex datasets to support existing operational metrics and identify new metrics or opportunities for efficiencies.
• Work closely with data engineers, analysts, finance and business leaders to build, refine and/or maintain centralised systems and data "pipelines" by which the business reports, measures and runs operations.

What we are looking for:

• 2+ years of hands-on experience with Tableau.
• 2+ years of hands-on experience with writing SQL queries and performing data analysis.
• Comfortable working in a global matrix-based team.

Desirable skills:

• Experience with Redshift, DBT, Airflow.
• Track record of showcasing customer service.
• JIRA & Confluence experience.
• Familiarity with the gaming industry will be considered a strong asset.

Benefits:

• 25 days holiday per year
• Flexitime working (where approved)
• Free car parking facilities
• On Site Gym
• Subsidised Café
• On site bar
• Access to cycle garage and showers

Equal Opportunity Statement:

Sony is an Equal Opportunity Employer. All persons will receive consideration for employment without regard to gender (including gender identity, gender expression and gender reassignment), race (including colour, nationality, ethnic or national origin), religion or belief, marital or civil partnership status, disability, age, sexual orientation, pregnancy, maternity or parental status, trade union membership or membership in any other legally protected category.

We strive to create an inclusive environment, empower employees and embrace diversity. We encourage everyone to respond. 

PlayStation is a Fair Chance employer and qualified applicants with arrest and conviction records will be considered for employment.