Niklas Hoeppener

Business Intelligence & Data Strategy Consultant

Unverbindlicher Tarif
640 € /Tag
Berufserfahrung3-7 Jahre
Antwortrate100 %
Antwortzeit1h

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🚀 Helping Businesses & Leaders Make Smarter, Data-Driven Decisions with BI, Analytics, and AI

I am a Business Intelligence & Data Strategy Consultant specializing in BI transformation, AI-driven analytics, and process automation. My focus is on helping businesses unlock the power of data through Power BI, SQL, AI-enhanced forecasting, and cloud-based analytics platforms.

🔹 What I Do:

📊 BI Strategy & Leadership – Helping companies implement scalable data-driven decision-making frameworks.

📈 Advanced Data Analytics – Building interactive dashboards, KPI models, and self-service BI solutions.

⚙️ Automation & AI in BI – Leveraging AI-driven analytics & automation to optimize reporting and forecasting.

☁️ Cloud & Data Engineering – Implementing Power BI, SQL, Databricks, and Snowflake solutions for real-time insights.

🤝 Freelance & Consulting – Advising businesses on BI adoption, process optimization, and AI-powered business intelligence.

🔹 How I Deliver Value:

✅ Faster, More Efficient Reporting – Eliminating manual bottlenecks and automating financial & operational data workflows.

✅ AI-Powered Insights & Forecasting – Enabling companies to predict trends, optimize inventory, and reduce costs.

✅ Empowering Data-Driven Decision Making – Designing self-service BI solutions that make analytics accessible to all teams.

📩 Let’s Connect – If you’re interested in leveraging BI, automation, and AI to enhance your business intelligence strategy, feel free to connect!

Learn more about my services here: and check out a small section of my portfolio here:

Freelance (Self employed)
Business Intelligence & Data Anayltics Consultant
Juli 2022 - Heute (2 Jahre und 11 Monate)
Cologne, NW, Germany
🔍 Helping businesses optimize decision-making, automate reporting, and unlock data-driven growth through scalable Business Intelligence solutions.

I specialize in Power BI, SQL, AI-enhanced analytics, and cloud automation, enabling clients to move from manual, Excel-heavy workflows to real-time, self-service dashboards that improve speed, accuracy, and insight.
🔑 Key Focus Areas

📊 BI Strategy & Self-Service Analytics
Enabling organizations to leverage their data for real-time decision-making through intuitive dashboards and KPI modeling.

🧠 AI-Driven BI & Forecasting
Implementing predictive analytics, AutoML, and AI-enhanced forecasting to identify trends, outliers, and future opportunities.

🛠️ Power BI, SQL & Cloud Analytics
Designing robust BI architectures and automated reporting systems using Power BI, SQL, Microsoft Fabric, and Azure.

⚙️ Process Optimization
Automating financial and operational reporting, reducing manual effort by 100+ hours monthly, and ensuring scalable, error-free insights.

🧩 Technology Stack
Power BI | SQL | Microsoft Fabric | Azure Synapse | Dataflows | Spark SQL | AutoML | DAX | Databricks | KQL | SharePoint | Excel
Learnship
Team Head Business Intelligence and Data Analytics
Januar 2018 - Mai 2022 (4 Jahre und 4 Monate)
Cologne, Germany
💼 Team Head Business Intelligence and Data Analytics

📍 Full-time Position – BI Strategy, Cloud Migration & Team Leadership

🔧 Role Overview:
Led the transformation of the company’s BI & analytics strategy, transitioning from manual Excel-based reporting to automated Power BI and scalable cloud-based solutions.

👥 Team Leadership:
Managed a cross-functional team and collaborated with finance, operations, and executive stakeholders to implement a modern, self-service analytics ecosystem.

📊 Key Achievements:
✔ Reduced manual reporting workload by 60% through automation and cloud BI
✔ Developed C-level KPI dashboards, enabling faster and more strategic decisions
✔ Led & trained the internal BI team to increase adoption of AI-powered insights
✔ Migrated mission-critical data to Snowflake and Databricks, improving processing speed and scalability

🛠️ Tools & Technologies:
Power BI ⚙ SQL ⚙ Snowflake ⚙ Databricks ☁ Microsoft Azure ☁ Excel ⚙ DAX
Learnship
Business Intelligence Specialist
März 2017 - Dezember 2017 (9 Monate)
Cologne, Germany
💼 BI Developer / Analyst

📍 Financial & Operational Reporting | SQL Automation | Power BI Dashboards

🔧 Role Overview:
Built and optimized financial and operational reporting solutions, integrating SQL-based automation with Power BI dashboards to scale company-wide data accessibility and analytics adoption.

📊 Key Achievements:
✔ Automated financial reporting workflows, reducing manual effort by 40%
✔ Designed interactive dashboards for finance & operations, improving transparency and decision-making
✔ Optimized complex SQL queries, increasing report performance by 30%

🛠️ Tools & Technologies:
Power BI ⚙ SQL ⚙ DAX ⚙ Excel ⚙ Azure Dataflows

MSc Finance
Maastricht University
2015

Power BI Data Analyst Associate
Microsoft
Advanced SQL & Data Modeling
DataCamp
Azure Databricks & Cloud Data Engineering
Microsoft
Get Started with Microsoft Fabric
Microsoft