Business Analyst jobs in United Kingdom

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.

• 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.

• 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. We operate over 190 cash and carry branches, eight distribution centres, five Best Food Logistics sites, as well as six support centre locations across the UK.

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. Some people are at the start of their careers, some want the freedom to do the things they love. Others are going through life-changing moments like becoming a carer, nearing retirement, adapting to parenthood, or something else. So, talk to us throughout your application about how we may be able to support you.

We’re proud that Booker is a Disability Confident Committed employer and we’re committed to providing a fully inclusive and accessible recruitment process. For further information on the accessibility support you can expect, please contact recruitment at bookergroup.com

Please note: 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. On occasions with high volumes of applicants, some roles may close earlier than the advertised end date to manage applicants. We will only be able to offer individual feedback to those candidates who attend an interview.

*Booker Group is part of Tesco plc, however, is operated separately from the core Tesco business and as such the benefits offered will be different from those offered at Tesco*

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