IT Business Analyst - Branch Systems

Tesco; Irthlingborough; On-site; GBP 40,000 - 60,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading food & drink wholesaler in the UK seeks a passionate Business Analyst to improve processes and ensure financial controls. In this role, you'll collaborate with internal teams and external partners, analyze business requirements, and document functional specifications. The ideal candidate has a strong Business Analyst background, excellent communication skills, and experience in Agile methodologies. This position promotes diversity and flexible working.

Qualifications

• Strong Business Analyst background.
• Ability to form functional specifications for use by team members.
• Strong stakeholder management skills.
• Excellent functional understanding of systems across business areas.
• Experience/exposure in Agile software development methodology.
• Strong verbal and written communications skills.
• Good understanding of available and emerging IT technologies.

Responsibilities

• Build understanding of business operations and strategic objectives.
• Maintain strong working relationships with stakeholders.
• Identify potential system solutions to business needs.
• Collaborate to elicit and document detailed business requirements.
• Analyze business requirements to understand business processes and challenges.

Skills

Business Analyst background

Stakeholder management

Verbal communication

Written communication

Knowledge of analytical techniques

Experience in Linux

Experience in Java

Experience in COBOL

Experience in SQL

Job description

We’re looking for someone who’s passionate about driving efficiency, improving processes, and ensuring strong financial controls across our systems and reporting.

In this role, you’ll be the go-to expert and primary point of contact for both internal teams and external partners. You’ll bring together business knowledge and project management expertise to deliver solutions that meet our clients’ needs with speed and precision.

We’re looking for someone who can balance technical know-how with clear communication, ensuring our systems continue to operate at their best while supporting future growth and innovation.

Key Responsibilities:

• Build an understanding of how the business operates – strategic objectives, key business initiatives, departmental structure, functions, processes, procedures, and current application functionality.
• Build and maintain strong working relationships and effective communication levels with stakeholders, including key users throughout the business and external suppliers.
• Identify potential system solutions to business needs whilst ensuring a close fit exists between business needs and technical solutions.
• Collaborate with stakeholders to elicit and document detailed business requirements in the form of a detailed strategic, business, and functional requirement specification set.
• Analyse business requirements to fully understand business processes, goals, and challenges for future versions.

Requirements:

• Strong Business Analyst background
• The ability to form functional specifications for use by other team members.
• Strong stakeholder management skills and ability to communicate complex technical concepts in a simple manner.
• Excellent functional understanding of systems across a variety of business areas and technical implementations.
• Experience/exposure of software development methodology e.g. Agile.
• Knowledge of analytical techniques and methodologies to define business problems.
• Strong verbal and written communications skills.
• A good understanding of available and emerging IT technologies.
• Excellent communication showing the ability to communicate effectively at various levels within the organisation, including senior management, operations personnel, and customers.
• Experience in Linux, Java, COBOL and SQL.

Booker is the UK's leading food & drink wholesaler. We are privileged to serve independent retailers, caterers and small businesses, from locations across the country.

Diversity, equity and inclusion (DE&I) at Booker means that whoever you are and whatever your background, we always want you to feel represented and that you can be yourself at work. In short, we’re a place where Everyone’s Welcome.

We know life looks a little different for each of us. That’s why at Booker and Best, we always welcome conversations about flexible working.

We’re proud that Booker is a Disability Confident Committed employer and we’re committed to providing a fully inclusive and accessible recruitment process.

Please note that we can only accept candidates over the age of 18 if the role requires working before 6:15 am or after 9:45 pm or involves working in areas such as the warehouse, beers, wines & spirits, and driving roles.

For more information about us please visit www.bookergroupjobs.co.uk

We are an equal opportunities employer and welcome applications from all qualified candidates.