Business Systems Analyst

People First Recruitment; Redhill; On-site; GBP 46,000 - 55,000; Full time

Job summary

A recruitment agency is seeking a Business Systems Analyst in Redhill, Surrey, offering a salary of up to £55K per annum. The role involves collaborating with teams to optimize business processes via technical solutions, mainly focusing on SQL and scripting languages like Python and PowerShell. Candidates should possess strong communication skills and be capable of translating business needs into effective solutions. This is a permanent position with no sponsorship available.

Qualifications

• Strong SQL skills, including writing complex queries and stored procedures.
• Experience in scripting languages like Python or PowerShell.
• Awareness of data engineering principles with ETL and pipelines.
• Experience supporting BI/reporting requirements using SQL and Tableau.
• Confident communication ability to explain technical concepts to various stakeholders.

Responsibilities

• Understand processes and improvement opportunities working with business teams.
• Gather requirements and contribute to business change initiatives.
• Develop technical solutions using SQL and scripting languages.
• Support reporting needs by maintaining BI dashboards.

Skills

SQL

Python

PowerShell

Data engineering principles

Tableau

Analytical skills

Communication skills

Job description

Business Systems Analyst – Main responsibilities

• Work with business teams to understand processes, requirements, and improvement opportunities.
• Contribute to business change initiatives by gathering requirements, mapping processes, identifying inefficiencies, and proposing solutions.
• Challenge existing practices and champion modern, scalable approaches that improve efficiency and data quality.
• Develop small‑to‑medium technical solutions using SQL, scripting languages (Python, PowerShell), and automation/integration tools.
• Build and maintain SQL queries, stored procedures, views, and data models to support both project work and reporting needs.
• Work with APIs, SFTP, and integration patterns to build and support systems interfaces.
• Support reporting needs by preparing SQL‑driven datasets and maintaining/improving BI dashboards (Tableau) as required.
• Apply data engineering fundamentals when designing transformations, pipelines, and data structures.
• Contribute to solution design and system understanding, including ERP‑related processes and application integrations.
• Create and maintain technical and architectural documentation, including knowledge articles for support handover.
• Adopt and promote best‑practice development processes such as version control, testing, and peer review.
• Own tasks within wider projects and lead small work streams or standalone pieces of development work when appropriate.
• Collaborate closely with colleagues across IT, Operations, Finance, Logistics, and wider Groupe teams.
• Occasional weekend work and bank holiday work which are covered across the team on a rota basis.

Business Systems Analyst – The skills you’ll need to succeed

• Strong SQL skills, including writing complex queries, stored procedures, and performing optimisation – essential.
• Experience using scripting languages such as Python or PowerShell – desirable.
• Awareness of data engineering principles (ETL, modelling, pipelines).
• Experience supporting BI/reporting requirements using SQL and tools such as Tableau.
• Familiarity with version control systems (Git) and structured development practices.
• Ability to translate business needs into clear technical solutions.
• Strong analytical and problem‑solving skills, with the ability to learn new technologies quickly.
• Confident communicator with the ability to explain technical concepts to non‑technical stakeholders.
• Curious, proactive, and comfortable taking initiative when appropriate.

Your New Salary: up to £55K per annum

Location: Redhill, Surrey

Duration: Permanent

To be successful in this role our client has said it is essential that candidates:

• Have IT / Technology tools experience to modernise the way the business works through smart development, integration, automation, and effective change delivery.
• Have exceptional communication skills and detail‑oriented problem‑solving focus.
• Are eligible to work in the UK. Sponsorship is not available for this role.

If that means this job isn’t a match for you please view our other vacancies for one that may be a better fit.

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