Job Description

Posted 1 day ago

Business Analyst

We’re working with a leading organisation operating within a highly technical and regulated environment to recruit an experienced Business Analyst.

This is an excellent opportunity for a commercially minded and analytical professional who enjoys understanding how businesses operate, identifying opportunities for improvement and working with stakeholders to deliver meaningful change.

As a Business Analyst, you’ll join a collaborative Programmes team and work closely with colleagues across engineering, operations, finance, IT and other business functions. You’ll play a key role in analysing processes, gathering requirements, supporting business change and helping deliver solutions that improve efficiency, quality and overall business performance.

The Role

You’ll be responsible for:

* Working with stakeholders to understand business challenges, objectives and requirements

* Analysing existing processes and identifying opportunities for improvement

* Gathering, documenting and validating business and functional requirements

* Interrogating business systems to produce reports, dashboards and meaningful insights

* Creating process maps, business cases and supporting documentation

* Working collaboratively with technical and non-technical teams to design effective solutions

* Supporting business change projects from initial concept through to implementation

* Facilitating workshops, meetings and stakeholder reviews

* Monitoring project progress, risks and dependencies, escalating issues where required

* Supporting User Acceptance Testing (UAT), training and implementation activities

* Analysing data to support informed decision-making

* Promoting continuous improvement and best practice across the organisation

About You

We’re looking for someone who is naturally curious, analytical and confident working with people across different areas of a business.

Essential experience:

* Previous experience working as a Business Analyst or in a similar analytical role

* Strong analytical and problem-solving skills

* Experience gathering and documenting business requirements

* Excellent stakeholder management and communication skills

* Ability to interpret and analyse data and turn findings into actionable recommendations

* Experience mapping business processes and identifying improvements

* Strong organisational skills and the ability to manage multiple priorities

Desirable experience:

* Experience within an engineering, manufacturing or defence environment

* Experience working with ERP, MRP or other enterprise business systems

* Experience with tools such as Visio, Power BI or Jira