Business Analyst - Azure Migration & HR/Finance Systems

Chroma Recruitment; Manchester; Hybrid; GBP 64,000 - 84,000; Full time

Job summary

We are recruiting for a Senior Business Analyst to support a high-priority separation programme in a major UK consumer brand’s Digital Engineering function. The role focuses on a cloud tenant migration and RFPs for HR and Finance systems, demanding rapid onboarding, workshop leadership, and production of clear requirements for vendors.

The candidate will gather requirements, document processes, and facilitate collaboration across business and technical teams, including third parties, in a hybrid

Qualifications

• Experience documenting business, functional and non-functional requirements.
• Experience facilitating workshops and driving consensus across multiple teams.
• Ability to produce high-quality requirements documentation and process maps.
• Significant Business/IT analysis experience on complex technology migrations.
• Knowledge of Agile, Waterfall and hybrid delivery methodologies.

Responsibilities

• Define approach to user migration between Azure tenants including mailbox, storage, SharePoint and OneDrive requirements and configuration.
• Understand current cloud application integration to enable redeployment into a new Azure tenant.
• Capture business requirements and review processes to support RFPs for replacement HR and Finance systems.
• Engage business/technical owners and third parties to produce clear, well-documented requirements.
• Translate strategy into practical requirements and process documentation.
• Lead interaction between owners and technical delivery teams, including third parties.
• Work across multiple concurrent workstreams with prioritisation.

Skills

Business/IT analysis

Requirements gathering

Workshop facilitation

Stakeholder management

Cross-team collaboration

Hybrid delivery

Tools

Azure

Microsoft 365

Dynamics 365

Workday

Job description

Senior Business Analyst - Azure Migration & HR/Finance Systems (Contractor)

Location: Manchester city centre, hybrid (onsite days as required by programme)
Contract: Initial 3-month contract
Rate: Up to £400/day Outside IR35
Start Date: ASAP

Overview

Are you looking to make a genuine, visible impact on a defined, high-priority separation programme rather than settle into a long slow ramp-up? This role offers exactly that.
We're looking for an experienced Business Analyst to join a major UK consumer brand's Digital Engineering function. This is a genuine delivery role spanning two active workstreams — a cloud tenant migration and a pair of system replacement RFPs — for someone who can get up to speed fast, run workshops that land decisions, and produce requirements documentation good enough to go straight out to vendors.

Key Responsibilities

• Support the PM and architect in defining the approach to user migration between Azure tenants, including mailbox, storage, SharePoint and OneDrive requirements, ownership and configuration.
• Assist in understanding current cloud application integration configuration to enable smooth redeployment into a new Azure tenant.
• Capture business requirements, run technical analysis of current applications and review current business processes to support RFPs for replacement Finance and HR systems.
• Engage business and technical owners across the organisation and third parties to produce clear, well-documented requirements.
• Interpret wider strategy and business context, translating it into practical requirements and process documentation.
• Lead close interaction between business/technical owners and technical delivery teams, including third parties.
• Work across multiple concurrent workstreams, prioritising effectively.

Requirements

• Significant Business/IT analysis experience delivered on complex technology migrations.
• Demonstrable experience documenting and managing business, functional and non-functional requirements.
• Experience facilitating workshops and driving consensus across multiple teams.
• Experience leading analysis across multiple teams, including third parties, to deliver technology solutions.
• Experience working across multiple streams of work with strong prioritisation skills.
• Base understanding of Azure AD/Entra ID concepts and tenant-to-tenant migrations.
• Experience supporting Microsoft 365 migration projects, including Exchange Online, SharePoint Online, OneDrive and user identity migration.
• Experience analysing application integrations, data flows and dependencies in complex enterprise environments.
• Ability to produce high-quality requirements documentation and process maps.
• Knowledge of Agile, Waterfall and hybrid delivery methodologies.
• Familiarity with RAID management, dependency management and programme governance.

Desirable

• Understanding of Telco and ICT products and processes.
• Exposure to Microsoft Azure, Microsoft 365 and enterprise SaaS platforms.
• Experience with HR systems, particularly Workday.
• Experience with Finance systems, particularly Dynamics 365.

Why Join?

• Genuine, hands-on delivery ownership across two live workstreams — not a ticket-taking role.
• A tangible, visible contribution to a major separation programme within a defined engageme