HR Business Analyst

Expleo; East Midlands; On-site; GBP 45,000 - 60,000; Full time

Job summary

A specialized consultancy firm in the UK is seeking a Business Analyst to support client engagements and drive successful business solutions. You will work with various teams to analyze business needs, manage stakeholder relationships, and develop detailed documentation for projects including SAP Success Factors. This role emphasizes strong communication skills, initiative, and the ability to manage multiple priorities effectively.

Benefits

Collaborative working environment

Access to accredited training courses

Competitive company benefits

Qualifications

• Experience with SAP Success Factors is crucial.
• Ability to work independently while managing multiple priorities.
• Required strong communication and stakeholder management.

Responsibilities

• Research business models and execute stakeholder analysis.
• Manage business analysis work using empathy for stakeholder engagement.
• Facilitate workshops to develop functional and non-functional requirements.

Skills

Stakeholder management

Communication Skills

Accountability

Multi-tasking

Education

BCS Business Analysis International Diploma

Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Science

Job description

Responsibilities

For a client engagement :

Research a client’s business model, strategy, and capabilities, understand their problems and their vision, goals and strategy. Undertake stakeholder analysis, communication and engagement through all stages of change. Run workshops using proven techniques for creating detailed business, functional and non-functional requirements. Independently manage business analysis work for a client change, using empathy to work with client stakeholders and partners to develop insight and trust. Investigate options, provide recommendations and roadmaps, create business cases, and other analysis documents required for the change project. Ensure the solution / s is compatible with the client’s business, infrastructure, systems, data and security architectures, and its regulatory and commercial constraints. Ensure the solution is focused on customer value where the customer journey is impacted. Identify opportunities for innovation, efficiency gain, and improvements to customer value and satisfaction, and employee ways of working, bring these to your stakeholder’s attention, and incorporate these into your work. Elicit requirements from stakeholders to create requirement repositories, Users Story maps, and prioritised backlogs. Process modelling and process improvement with an emphasis on efficiency and automation where possible. Support the development and QA (test) teams with clear, signed-off requirements or user stories, and sufficiently detailed and decomposed acceptance criteria for all relevant scenarios, Provide the development and QA (test) teams supporting matrices and documentation for logical data models and data mapping with particular care for integrations, business rules, threshold criteria, UI / UX diagrams, state transition diagrams, non-functional constraints, etc. Identify the impacts of a change on business teams, customers, and other change initiatives. Help the business prepare for implementing a change by creating some or all of the following : a business readiness plan, business processes, customer journeys, training requirements, user guides or run-books, a service design, metrics and OKRs (objectives and key results), communications plans, and any relevant system-support Service Desk services. Support UAT, run model office sessions where appropriate, and support hypercare where used. Comply with Client project governance and reporting needs. Manage client expectations to ensure that you can deliver for the project team and the business. Be able to work with and understand data, data flow and data mapping.

For Expleo :

Network and work as part of multi-disciplinary teams, including Operations, Sales and Client Success Partners. Identify opportunities for business development with the client. Comply with Expleo Delivery governance related to sharing client knowledge and relationship management, reporting, raising issues, as well as capturing learning and case studies for clients. Share your knowledge and experience with other team members. Support team success and motivate others to keep morale and performance high.

Qualifications

• BCS Business Analysis International Diploma (or equivalent)
• A Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, or other related field, or equivalent work experience

Essential skills

• Good Stakeholder management & Communication Skills
• The ability to work independently under direction from BA Headcount Practice Lead
• Have accountability for output with focus on quality
• Must be able to work on multiple topics and manage priorities and deliver to deadlines

Experience

• A BA is required to work across multiple projects. The key project this is required for is SAP Success Factors in collaboration with our HR department. Requirement will be for 3 days per week on SAP Success with the following outputs expected :

  Full gap analysis of the ‘as is’ & ‘to be’ HR Operational processes via interviews and workshops
  Documentation of the gaps and impacts
  Research and documentation of potential solution
  Input and completion of the ‘pre‑requisites’ document required

• The remaining 2 days per week will be used on either smaller projects or requirements documentation for input into tender documentation.
• The following experience is required : Process Analysis for system or HR related projects (essential)
  HR lifecycle & data background (preferred)
  System Integration awareness (nice to have)

Benefits

• Collaborative working environment – we stand shoulder to shoulder with our clients and our peers through good times and challenges
• We empower all passionate technology loving professionals by allowing them to expand their skills and take part in inspiring projects
• ExpleoAcademy - enables you to acquire and develop the right skills by delivering a suite of accredited training courses
• Competitive company benefits
• Always working as one team, our people are not afraid to think big and challenge the status quo