Business/Systems Analyst - EU Payroll IT

Bertrandt Group; Basildon; On-site; GBP 40,000 - 56,000; Full time

Job summary

Bertrandt Group in the UK is seeking a Business Operations Co-ordinator to join our EU Payroll IT team. The role combines BAU payroll IT support with involvement in future programmes, particularly in the UK, requiring strong analytical and communication skills.

You will collaborate across Spain, Belgium and the UK, gather requirements, manage stakeholders, and help translate business needs for technical teams while maintaining rigorous documentation and quality standards.

Qualifications

• Proven experience as a Business Analyst, ideally within payroll, HR or a related HR/IT systems environment.
• Strong requirements gathering, stakeholder management and documentation skills.
• Experience supporting UAT and structured testing processes.
• Ability to work across multiple countries and stakeholder groups and manage competing priorities.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills, with the ability to translate business needs for technical audiences and vice versa.
• Comfortable working in a BAU support environment alongside project and programme work.
• Basic understanding of system architecture diagrams and how to interpret them

Responsibilities

• The EU Payroll IT team supports payroll operations across Spain, Belgium and the UK, ensuring reliable systems day to day.
• Split time between BAU payroll IT activities and contributing to future programmes of work, particularly in the UK.
• Collaborate with cross-country stakeholders and maintain accurate, clear documentation.

Skills

Payroll BA

Stakeholder mgmt

UAT testing

Multi-country

Communication

BAU & project

System architecture

Education

Degree 2:1 or above

Job description

We are Bertrandt. An independent, international engineering service provider with decades of expertise. With cross-industry know-how and a comprehensive understanding of systems and products, we create technological solutions across the entire value chain. We focus on the trending topics of digitalization, e-mobility, and autonomous systems, primarily for the automotive, aerospace, defense, and mechanical engineering industries, consistently enabling the development of tailor-made solutions. Our goal: to accelerate technological progress and make a meaningful contribution to a sustainable future. We work toward this every day - with approximately 12,000 employees at over 50 locations worldwide.

We are Bertrandt. An independent, international engineering service provider with decades of expertise. With cross-industry know-how and a comprehensive understanding of systems and products, we create technological solutions across the entire value chain. We focus on the trending topics of digitalization, e-mobility, and autonomous systems, primarily for the automotive, aerospace, defense, and mechanical engineering industries, consistently enabling the development of tailor-made solutions. Our goal: to accelerate technological progress and make a meaningful contribution to a sustainable future. We work toward this every day - with approximately 12,000 employees at over 50 locations worldwide.

We are recruiting for a Business Operations Co-ordinator for our customer

This is a 12 month contract, min 4 days onsite per week

Role And Responsibilities

The EU Payroll IT team is responsible for the systems and processes supporting payroll operations across Spain, Belgium and the UK, with additional light touch support provided to other EU National Sales Companies (NSCs). The team ensures payroll systems run reliably day to day while also delivering improvement and transformation initiatives.

Role Purpose

We are looking for a competent Business or Systems Analyst to join our EU Payroll IT team. This role will split time between supporting business as usual (BAU) payroll IT activities and contributing to future programmes of work, particularly within the UK. The ideal candidate will have strong core BA skills, with some technical understanding being a valuable bonus, particularly around system architecture, environments and release processes.

Skills Required

• Proven experience as a Business Analyst, ideally within payroll, HR or a related HR/IT systems environment.
• Strong requirements gathering, stakeholder management and documentation skills.
• Experience supporting UAT and structured testing processes.
• Ability to work across multiple countries and stakeholder groups and manage competing priorities.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills, with the ability to translate business needs for technical audiences and vice versa.
• Comfortable working in a BAU support environment alongside project and programme work.
• Basic understanding of system architecture diagrams and how to interpret them

Skills Preferred

• Awareness of environment planning (for example dev, test, UAT and production).
• Familiarity with release management processes.
• Understanding of FTP/SFTP file transfer processes, as commonly used in payroll data interfaces.
• General overview knowledge of cloud migration concepts and considerations.

Education Preferred

DEGREE 2:1 OR ABOVE

Additional Information

Personal Attributes

• Proactive, self motivated and comfortable working independently as well as part of a team.
• Strong problem solving mindset with attention to detail.
• Adaptable, able to manage both operational support work and strategic programme delivery.

Culturally aware and comfortable working across multiple European markets

At Bertrandt, we place great importance on equal treatment and equal opportunity. Our hiring decisions are based on the experience and skills of the applicants. People with severe disabilities or those deemed equivalent under SGB IX are warmly welcomed and will be given preference in hiring if equally qualified.