Contract Business Analyst

Tilt Recruitment; Macclesfield; Hybrid; GBP 83,000 - 120,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Hybrid work arrangement

Job summary

Tilt Recruitment is recruiting an experienced Business Analyst to join a Technology & Change team delivering a large-scale transformation programme in Cheshire. The role focuses on reporting and data workstreams, defining future-state reporting and working with business stakeholders, developers and QA across the full lifecycle from requirements gathering to post-go-live support.

You will document requirements, wireframes and processes across Finance, Operations and Purchasing, and support data

Qualifications

• Experience in IT transformation programmes with reporting/data focus.
• Ability to gather requirements, map processes and define future-state reporting.
• Proven stakeholder facilitation and workshop skills.
• Experience with data mapping, validation and UAT planning.

Responsibilities

• Gather and document business, functional and reporting requirements.
• Facilitate stakeholder workshops and work with business users to understand needs.
• Review existing reports and processes and define future-state reporting requirements.
• Assess whether reports/processes are required or covered by the new solution.
• Document reporting requirements, wireframes, process maps and system interactions.
• Map current and future-state processes and identify improvement opportunities.
• Support data analysis, mapping, validation and reconciliation.
• Support data migration and understand impact on reporting.
• Work with architects, developers and QA to shape and deliver solutions.
• Define acceptance criteria, test scenarios and UAT scripts; coordinate UAT.
• Support cutover, deployment and post-go-live activities.
• Manage stakeholders and ensure requirements and decisions are clearly documented.

Skills

Requirements gathering

Stakeholder workshops

Data analysis

Process mapping

UAT planning

Wireframes

Agile DevOps Waterfall

Tools

JIRA

Azure DevOps

Visio

Excel

Power BI

Job description

Business Analyst - IT Transformation Programme

Hybrid - Cheshire

6 Month Contract - Outside IR35

Be part of a major business transformation

We're recruiting for an experienced Business Analyst to join a Technology & Change team delivering a large-scale, multi-year transformation programme.

This role will sit within the reporting and data workstream, supporting the review and transformation of existing reporting processes and defining future-state reporting requirements across new and existing systems.

You’ll work closely with business stakeholders, developers, architects, QA and delivery teams across the full project lifecycle, from requirements gathering and process mapping through to testing, cutover and implementation.

The Role

As a Business Analyst, you’ll be responsible for understanding business and reporting requirements, reviewing existing processes and reports, and helping define how these will work within the new technology landscape.

A key part of the role will be reviewing current reports and processes to determine whether they are still required, can be simplified or consolidated, or whether their functionality will be covered by the new solution.

You’ll document future-state reporting requirements and wireframes across systems supporting Finance, Operations and Purchasing, working with technical teams to ensure requirements are clearly understood and delivered.

The role will involve working across Agile, DevOps and Waterfall environments and supporting projects through requirements, design, testing, cutover and post-go-live.

What You’ll Be Doing

• Gather and document business, functional and reporting requirements
• Facilitate stakeholder workshops and work with business users to understand their needs
• Review existing reports and processes and define future-state reporting requirements
• Assess whether existing reports and processes are still required or will be covered by the new solution
• Document reporting requirements, wireframes, process maps and system interactions
• Work across Finance, Operations and Purchasing systems
• Map current and future-state processes and identify opportunities for improvement
• Support data analysis, mapping, validation and reconciliation
• Support data migration and understand the impact on reporting
• Work with Solution Architects, developers and QA teams to shape and deliver solutions
• Define acceptance criteria, test scenarios and UAT scripts
• Coordinate and support UAT with business users
• Support cutover, deployment and post-go-live activities
• Manage stakeholders and ensure requirements and decisions are clearly documented

About You

You’ll be an experienced Business Analyst with strong reporting, data and transformation experience. You’ll be comfortable working between technical teams and business stakeholders and confident challenging existing processes and ways of working.

You’ll ideally have experience in:

• Business Analysis within IT transformation programmes
• Reporting, data or MI workstreams
• Requirements gathering and stakeholder workshops
• Reviewing and rationalising existing reports
• Defining future-state reporting requirements
• Data analysis and reporting requirements
• Business process mapping and process improvement
• Creating wireframes, process flows and functional specifications
• Data mapping, migration and validation
• UAT planning and execution
• Cutover and deployment activities
• Working with developers, architects and QA teams
• Agile, DevOps and/or Waterfall delivery environments

Experience with tools such as JIRA, Azure DevOps, Visio, Excel and Power BI would be beneficial.

Desirable Experience

Experience within hospitality, retail or service-based organisations would be advantageous, as would exposure to ERP, CRM, POS or other enterprise business systems.

Experience working across Finance, Operations and Purchasing systems, particularly where multiple systems feed into a wider reporting environment, would also be beneficial.

BCS, IIBA or Agile qualifications would be desirable but are not essential.

Our client is an equal opportunity employer - they celebrate diversity and are committed to creating an inclusive environment for all employees.