Business Systems Analyst - Unit 4

Buro Happold; Bath; Hybrid; GBP 40,000 - 60,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading global consultancy in Bath is seeking a Business Systems Analyst to join their team. The successful candidate will focus on enhancing and supporting the Unit 4 ERP system. In this hybrid role, responsibilities include stakeholder engagement and technical support. Ideal candidates will have strong IT knowledge and experience with ERP systems, alongside excellent stakeholder management skills.

Benefits

Private medical insurance

Life assurance

Income protection

Flexible holiday arrangements

Generous pension scheme

Professional development opportunities

Qualifications

• Ability to create, document, and implement solutions based on set requirements.
• Strong stakeholder management skills at all levels.
• Prioritize workload based on severity and impact.

Responsibilities

• Technical delivery of system enhancement projects.
• Identify areas of opportunity for future enhancement.
• Provide support regarding business process change.

Skills

Good all round IT Knowledge

Experience of working on and supporting ERP systems (preferably Unit 4)

Strong stakeholder management skills

SQL experience

Ability to create, document and implement solutions

Education

Good secondary and/or equivalent education: A levels, HND/C or degree

Job description

Thrive on openness, respect, and collaboration? Good. Us too. Buro Happold has an exciting opportunity for a Business Systems Analyst (Unit 4 ERP) to join the Global Business Systems team.

Buro Happold is currently going through a period of strategic growth. This growth has resulted in an increased demand within the IT and Business Services Team, as we support BAU and drive forward with improvement initiatives.

As an extremely collaborative professional, you excel at building excellent working relationships and possess a high level of political sensitivity and ethics. Your essential soft skills include effective listening, persuasion, a collaborative leadership style, flexibility, self-motivation, creativity, and insightfulness.

Your next role

Join us and be surrounded by exceptional opportunities in an environment alive with innovation and possibility. Your new team has a willingness and curiosity to see possibility and potential in everything – from the most iconic projects to our everyday conversations.

• This role is intended to be a hybrid role; the successful candidate will assume all the existing responsibilities of a Senior Business Systems Analyst.
• Buro Happold has a clear strategic plan, strong learning culture and entrepreneurial mindset that will allow you to thrive.
• You’ll be part of something bigger than us all where sustainability, equity, social and performance outcomes matter. Buro Happold is committed to doing the right thing, even when that’s the hardest thing. This is a genuine opportunity to make impact - and leave real legacy.

The main purpose of this role is to work in both a technical & functional capacity to deliver new enhancements and functionality using the Unit 4 ERP suite which is used globally by the practice. The role will also involve an element of system support, internal consulting and stakeholder engagement.

The successful candidate will assist the Business Systems Manager/Business Systems Team leader in gathering requirements in Delivering functionality and product which meets the needs to the practice.

Responsibilities

• Technical delivery of system enhancement, improvement and functionality projects;
• Identify areas of opportunity for future enhancement within the Unit 4 ERP product suites;
• As required, work with other internal systems project teams, to ensure tighter data sharing, and reduce duplication, inefficiency, and interface translation requirements;
• Provide support and assistance regarding systems implications of business process change;
• 3rd Line Support for Unit 4 ERP function
• Enforce governance around QA, change management, documentation of solutions, maintain a knowledge base ensuring release and reference documentation is stored in central repository.

Essential Skills

• Good all round IT Knowledge;
• Experience of working on and supporting ERP systems (preferably Unit 4)
• Ability to create, document and implement solutions based on a set of requirements.
• Have a clear understanding of the ERP support systems and how we can use it to our advantage;
• Strong stakeholder management skills at all levels and an ability to effectively liaise with 3rd parties to deliver solutions;
• SQL experience and knowledge (Preferential)
• Prioritise workload based on severity and impact to customer and demonstrate a sense of urgency when handling tickets
• Write test scripts and help to ensure quality of solution prior to user acceptance testing
• Test and document patches/ bug fixes before they are deployed to the live environment
• Monitoring and managing interfaces

Desirable Experience

• On premise experience transitioning to Cloud;
• Experience with integrations, point solutions and/or other ERPs;
• Good secondary and/or equivalent education: A levels, HND/C or degree;
• Any Financial/HR related qualifications.

What We Offer You

Bring your knowledge and expertise to one of the world’s most respected consultancies.

• Hybrid working arrangements.
• Attractive salary and benefits package including, private medical insurance, life assurance and income protection.
• Holiday entitlement of 25 days per annum (exclusive of bank holidays) and flexible holiday arrangements.
• Generous company pension scheme.
• Flexible benefits including cycle scheme, dental insurance, optical cover, travel insurance, season ticket loans, and corporate discounts.
• Enhanced parenthood leave policies.
• 3pm finish on the last Friday of the month.
• A strong commitment to your continuous development. Whatever stage in your career, we have a learning and development programme that will enable and empower you.
• Entitlement to two memberships to professional bodies or subscriptions
• A commitment to your wellbeing through a comprehensive employee assistance programme and wellbeing activities A supportive and inclusive environment that will welcome you through social and outreach activities from the Young Employees Forum to mentoring.
• An international culture that wherever your career takes you at Buro Happold, you won’t be far from the exceptional.

Buro Happold values an individual's flexible approaches to working patterns as an important part of how you work and achieve balance. We welcome applications from those who are seeking flexibility in their careers.

Our exceptional portfolio of projects is the result of the diversity of thought, identities, backgrounds, and experiences that shape us. Appreciating each other’s differences is key, we want employees to feel they don’t have to mask elements of their identity to thrive.

We are working to change the lack of representation of marginalised groups in the built environment. We are particularly keen to hear from anyone who feels they are underrepresented in the industry. We have much to learn from one another. Embracing differences allows us to develop the most innovative and elegant solutions.

Please let us know if there are any adjustments we could make to the application process to make it easier and more comfortable for you. Contact [e-mail] so we can work with you to support you throughout your application.