Business Intelligence Analyst

Job Description

Live Nation Entertainment is the world's leading live entertainment and eCommerce company, comprised of four market leaders: Ticketmaster.com, Live Nation Concerts, Front Line Management Group and Live Nation Network. Ticketmaster.com is the global event ticketing leader and one of the world's top five eCommerce sites, with over 26 million monthly unique visitors. Live Nation Concerts produces over 20,000 shows annually for more than 2,000 artists globally. Front Line is the world's top artist management company, representing over 250 artists. These businesses power Live Nation Network, the leading provider of entertainment marketing solutions, enabling over 800 advertisers to tap into the 200 million consumers Live Nation delivers annually through its live event and digital platforms. For additional information, visit www.livenation.com/investors.

THE TEAM

Core Data Services team is at the center of Data and Analytics initiative. We are in the beginning of our journey to build an enterprise data platform capable to be a true underpinning of any data needs for the enterprise. Our mission is to make reliable data available and enable value creation by the data community of engineers, analysts and decision makers. Core Data Services team consists of Platform engineering team, Data Engineering, Data Enablement and Operations team. BI is part of Data Enablement and is a critical component of providing users visibility into the data and providing self-service for interacting with data first hand.

Core Data Services is currently in process of adopting Spark as our main ETL engine and realizing the value of highly functional, performant and transparent Data Lake, all this while maintaining and streamlining existing data infrastructure and doing careful migration. These activities will create new opportunities for business intelligence functionality and effective data value delivery

THE ROLE
Our mission is to provide the right users with the right data at the right time and we are dedicated to defining and building a world class service model for Business Intelligence. This is an exciting opportunity for a BI Analyst to explore our data in all it's glory and identify and address data issues in a time sensitive environment. We have numerous sources of data and we need to clearly understand the differences and standardize the metrics on which we're reporting.

The perfect candidate for us is as obsessed with how the data is collected as they are with the data itself. This position requires someone with strong analytical and statistical skills, with a solid knowledge of SQL and various BI toolsets. Success in this role means understanding the data journey from source to visualizations, communicating with end users and going through troves of existing reports and dashboards to identify core BI requirements.
Our candidate is motivated by driving value to the business, holds themselves to a high standard, is meticulously detailed, can work and learn independently, is tenacious in chasing down the people who can help get a problem solved, and loves working collaboratively – with no ego – for the betterment of the team.

WHAT THIS ROLE WILL DO
• Work with various teams, including Product, Engineering to implement new products as well as utilize data and user feedback to suggest improvement in BI implementation and BI process.
• Work with the user community to ensure current reports meet expectations
• Work with disparate data sources and be able to compare and identify data quality issues in a time sensitive manner
• Dive into different reports, datasets and dashboards to understand any potential overlaps in data use, discrepancies in logic and make recommendations for streamlining and simplifying
• Make recommendations based on data and usage to any deficiencies in underlying semantic layer
• Define and implement internal dashboards and reports
• Participate in requirements meetings to compile, and document requirements and specifications
• Collaborate with division business analysts and other functional teams as needed to provide analysis across multiple areas of the business

WHAT THIS PERSON WILL BRING:
• Strong analytical skills for deep data analysis, data profiling, assessing data fit for purpose
• Ability to apply advanced analytical techniques to datasets in order to get questions answered by data
• Skillset to work with large data volumes
• Experience with various BI tools (Cognos, Domo, Tableau)
• Experience with SQL, PySpark, SparkSQL
• Strong communication and presentation skills with technical, non-technical, and executive audiences
• Detail oriented with strong time management and organizational skills
• Excellent problem solving and critical thinking skills
• Flexible and responsive to changing situations and capable of reacting quickly to changes in a fluid environment
• Comfortable with ambiguity and deadline pressures
• Ability to work independently and as part of a team
• Able to manage competing priorities with little supervisory input
• Able to work quickly, able to experiment and amend approach based on data analysis and results
• Innate willingness to roll up sleeves

EQUAL EMPLOYMENT OPPORTUNITY

We also afford equal employment opportunities to qualified individuals with a disability. For this reason, Live Nation will make reasonable accommodations for the known physical or mental limitations of an otherwise qualified individual with a disability who is an applicant consistent with its legal obligations to do so, including reasonable accommodations related to pregnancy in accordance with applicable local, state and / or federal law. As part of its commitment to make reasonable accommodations, Live Nation also wishes to participate in a timely, good faith, interactive process with a disabled applicant to determine effective reasonable accommodations, if any, which can be made in response to a request for accommodations. Applicants are invited to identify reasonable accommodations that can be made to assist them to perform the essential functions of the position they seek. Any applicant who requires an accommodation in order to perform the essential functions of the job should contact a Human Resources Representative to request the opportunity to participate in a timely interactive process. Live Nation will also provide reasonable religious accommodations on a case by case basis.

Jobcode: Reference SBJ-d5zv47-3-137-161-222-42 in your application.