Business Analyst / Power BI Consultant

Salary: $85 – $100 per hour

About the role

D2i Consulting is seeking an experienced Business Analyst / Power BI Consultant who can work closely with business stakeholders to define reporting requirements and turn them into practical Power BI solutions. The role combines business analysis, workshop facilitation, dashboard prototyping and Power BI development across business functions. You will work directly with business users, subject matter experts and the broader project team to improve reporting and support informed decision-making. This is an initial three-month engagement with a strong likelihood of extension, subject to project requirements and performance. You will be required onsite at the client's Port Melbourne office three days per week.

Key responsibilities

• Lead discovery and requirements-gathering sessions with business stakeholders.
• Facilitate workshops to define KPIs, measures, business rules, reporting priorities and security requirements.
• Document business requirements, reporting specifications and acceptance criteria.
• Develop Power BI dashboard prototypes to validate requirements and gather feedback.
• Design and build Power BI dashboards, reports and supporting semantic models.
• Use SQL to investigate source data, validate business rules and reconcile report outputs.
• Work with technical teams to identify the source data, transformations and data structures required.
• Support business testing, resolve reporting issues and coordinate stakeholder sign-off.
• Provide documentation, user guidance and knowledge transfer.

About you

• Proven experience combining business analysis with hands-on Power BI development.
• Strong stakeholder engagement, workshop facilitation and requirements-documentation skills.
• Ability to turn high-level business needs into clear specifications and working reporting solutions.
• Confident communicating with both business users and technical teams.
• Strong Power BI capability, including DAX, Power Query and semantic modelling.
• Sound SQL and dimensional modelling skills.
• Experience implementing row-level security and validating reporting accuracy.
• Comfortable working iteratively and independently in a client-facing consulting role.
• Available to work onsite in Port Melbourne three days per week.

About us

D2i is an Australian-owned Data, Analytics and AI consultancy. Our experienced team works with leading organisations to deliver practical solutions across data strategy, engineering, business intelligence and cloud platforms.