Business Analyst

Alfred H Knight; Knowsley; Hybrid; GBP 45,000 - 65,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Pension

Life assurance

Employee assistance programme

Job summary

Alfred H Knight seeks a data-focused IT Business Analyst to join the Technology Delivery team at Prescot head office (Pegasus House). The role is on-site 3 days a week with up to 2 days remote, supporting a digital transformation centered on BI, data platforms, and data warehousing.

You will work across global operations with data engineers, BI developers and SMEs to own end-to-end requirement journeys, define KPIs, and shape data-driven improvements across 50+ countries.

Qualifications

• Proven experience delivering BI/analytics/data warehouse projects.
• Exceptional requirements gathering with KPIs and data definitions.
• End-to-end data flow documentation (source-to-target mappings).
• Experience with Agile and Waterfall environments.
• Strong workshop facilitation and stakeholder management.

Responsibilities

• Facilitate workshops and interviews with senior stakeholders to identify opportunities and capture requirements.
• Translate business needs into user stories, acceptance criteria, and backlog items.
• Model as-is vs to-be processes using BPMN/UML and perform data modelling.
• Collaborate with architects, data engineers and BI developers; lead UAT test scripting.
• Support business cases and feasibility studies for new technology initiatives.

Skills

BI analytics

Data warehousing

Requirements gathering

Data modelling

Stakeholder management

Agile & Waterfall

Problem solving

Education

BCS certification or equivalent

Tools

Jira

Asana

Lucidchart

MS Visio

Google Workspace

Job description

Due to exciting global growth and significant investment across our business, Alfred H Knight is hiring an experienced data-focused IT Business Analyst to join our Technology Delivery team at our global head office in Prescot (Pegasus House). This position is based on-site at our head office in Prescot (3 days per week) with the option to work from home for up to 2 days per week.

We are currently embarking on an ambitious digital transformation journey, putting data right at the heart of how we operate globally. In this role, you won't just be documenting processes—you’ll act as a key strategic bridge between our global business operations, BI teams, and IT transformation leaders. Working closely with data engineers, BI developers, solution architects, and business SMEs across 50+ countries, you will own the end-to-end requirement journey for our enterprise data platforms, BI reporting systems, and data warehousing initiatives.

Key Responsibilities

• Requirements Elicitation & Workshops: Facilitate engaging workshops and interviews with senior stakeholders to identify business opportunities, define project scope, and capture functional, non-functional, and technical requirements.
• Agile User Stories & Backlog Refinement: Translate business needs into clear user stories, acceptance criteria, and use cases, keeping product backlogs refined and ready for sprint execution.
• Process & Data Modelling: Analyse as-is versus to-be processes using BPMN and UML, conducting thorough gap analyses and data modelling to recommend high-value business improvements.
• Solution Evaluation & UAT: Partner with architects and development teams to evaluate software solutions, write comprehensive UAT test scripts, and lead user acceptance testing with global business teams.
• Global Pre-Initiation Support: Assist business leads in building robust business cases and feasibility studies for new technology initiatives.

ABOUT US

Alfred H Knight is a totally independent, family owned business spanning five generations. A global network of strategically placed offices and laboratories enable global trade by providing independent inspection, analysis and consultancy services to the metals and minerals, solid fuels and agriculture industries.

DO YOU HAVE WHAT IT TAKES?

To be successful at Alfred H Knight you will need to display the following:

REQUIRED KNOWLEDGE AND WORK EXPERIENCE

• Proven, practical experience operating as a Business Analyst delivering Business Intelligence (BI), analytics, data warehouse, or wider data platform projects.
• Exceptional requirements gathering skills, with demonstrated capability in defining KPIs, business rules, data definitions, and reporting requirements.
• Ability to understand, model, and document end-to-end data flows, source-to-target mapping, transformations, and system dependencies.
• Strong experience collaborating directly with data engineers, BI developers, solution architects, and business SMEs. Good understanding of data quality principles, data validation, reconciliation processes, and writing technical acceptance criteria.
• Outstanding workshop facilitation and stakeholder management skills, particularly when navigating ambiguous, unclear, or conflicting data definitions.
• Experience working across both Agile and Waterfall project environments.
• Evidence-based analytical mindset with an obsessive eye for data accuracy and problem-solving.
• High level of self-motivation, organisation, and the ability to manage priorities across multiple active data initiatives.
• Passion for continuous learning, innovation, and driving positive data-led organizational change.

Required Work Experience

• Experience using modelling tools and BA platforms (e.g. Jira, Asana, Lucidchart, MS Visio, Google Workspace).
• Prior exposure to LIMS, ERP, or enterprise reporting platforms is highly desirable.
• Sector experience within Metals & Minerals, Mining, Energy, Scientific, or Supply Chain environments is advantageous.

Required Qualifications

• Professional qualification in Business Analysis (such as BCS certification) or equivalent practical experience.
• Exposure to modern data tooling such as Power BI, Microsoft Fabric, Azure data services, or SQL is advantageous.

BENEFITS

We are offering an excellent opportunity with a salary and benefits package to match including pension, life assurance and an employee assistance programme.

If you are invited to interview, please let us know if there are any reasonable adjustments we can make to the recruitment process that will enable you to perform to the best of your ability.

Alfred H Knight is committed to creating a diverse & inclusive environment and hence welcomes applications from all sections of the community.