MODULE LEAD - Power BI

Role overview

MODULE LEAD - Power BI at Happiest Minds

The Senior BI Specialist is responsible for designing and delivering high-impact Management Information (MI), executive dashboards, flash reports, and automated insights using Power BI, powered by the Unified Data Platform (UDP) as the single source of truth.

This role converts governed, trusted data into clear, intuitive, and actionable insights for executives and business teams across Prudential Africa, significantly reducing manual reporting and improving decision speed and quality.

Responsibilities

• Power BI Dashboarding & MI Delivery Design, develop, and maintain enterprise-grade Power BI dashboards, scorecards, and reports aligned to business and executive needs.
• Deliver centralized MI and flash reporting across key insurance domains, including Finance, Operations & Persistency, Distribution & Sales Performance, Commercial & Incentives, and Actuarial & Compliance.
• Apply best-practice data visualization and storytelling principles to ensure dashboards are intuitive, consistent, and AI insight-driven.
• Standardize KPI definitions and calculations to support one version of the truth from a centralized source.
• Automated Reporting & Business Insights Replace manual and spreadsheet-based reporting with fully automated Power BI solutions (scheduled refreshes, subscriptions, alerts).
• Build flash reports that surface near-real-time performance for leadership and operational teams.
• Implement exception-based and threshold-driven insights to highlight risks, opportunities, and performance deviations.
• Support the evolution toward AI-assisted and predictive insights as UDP matures.
• UDP & Data Platform Collaboration Work closely with Data Engineers and Platform Engineers to validate data availability, freshness, and quality for reporting.
• Influence data models, aggregates, and semantic layers optimized for BI.
• Support onboarding of new data sources into UDP.
• Ensure Power BI solutions align with UDP architecture, scalability, and governance standards.
• Business Engagement & Use-Case Enablement Partner with business stakeholders to understand decision-making needs and performance drivers.
• Translate requirements into effective Power BI dashboards and reports.
• Prioritize high-value reporting and insight use cases.
• Support ExCo, regional, and LBU-level reporting, ensuring clarity and consistency across markets.
• Data Governance, Quality & Trust Ensure BI outputs comply with data governance and regulatory standards, including approved KPI definitions, data lineage, and consistent use of Critical Data Elements (CDEs).
• Act as a strong consumer advocate for data quality, raising issues and partnering with engineering teams for resolution.
• Ensure Power BI artifacts are audit-ready, explainable, and reproducible.
• Self-Service BI & Adoption Enable self-service analytics through certified datasets and semantic models in Power BI, clear report structures, and user guidance.
• Promote adoption of Power BI across business teams through enablement and training.
• Mandatory Skills: 5-8 years of experience in DW/BI / MI / Analytics roles.
• Proven experience delivering executive-level dashboards and operational reporting using Power BI.
• Strong, hands-on expertise in Power BI, including Data Modelling, DAX, and performance optimization.
• Solid understanding of Design Impact Measurement and performance measurement.

Required qualifications

• 5-8 Years
• Strong business acumen and storytelling ability, with a proactive, outcome-focused mindset.
• Ability to simplify complex data into clear executive insights and confident communication with senior stakeholders.

Preferred qualifications and skills

• Experience in insurance or financial services environments is strongly preferred.
• Experience supporting a Unified Data Platform (UDP) or similar enterprise data initiative.
• Exposure to advanced analytics or MS copilot 365-driven insights from a BI perspective.
• Familiarity with Data Governance concepts and regulated reporting environments.
• Power BI certification (PL-300 or equivalent) ? desirable.

Employment details

• Location: Bengaluru, India Years of

Additional role details

• Senior BI Specialist ?
• Power BI | Data & Unified Data Platform (UDP)