Business Analyst - Process & Automation

Weekday; Mumbai; On-site; INR 500,000 - 1,500,000; Full time

Job summary

Weekday AI (YC W21) is seeking a hands-on analytics professional to work with a client in Mumbai, Maharashtra. You will map business processes, identify gaps, and design improved systems, then implement them in Python, pandas, and Excel.

You will act as the quality filter between the owner and the team, reviewing quotations, Excel models and formulas for errors, structure and logic, and drive end-to-end execution.

Qualifications

• 3+ years experience in mapping business processes and analytics.
• Proficiency in Excel and Python/pandas to deliver analyses.
• Ability to audit and review analyses for errors, structure and logic.
• Excellent communication to extract process knowledge and collaborate cross-functionally.

Responsibilities

• Understand business processes by talking to people across departments and mapping current process flows (production planning, forecasting, costing).
• Identify gaps in processes, design improved systems, and implement them using Python/pandas/Excel or equivalent tools.
• Build and maintain automation for recurring analysis and reporting.
• Review the team's Excel work (quotations, formulas, models) as a filter before it reaches the owner: check for errors, structure and logic.
• Translate owner requirements into working, tested solutions and execute end to end.

Skills

Excel

Python (pandas)

Analytical thinking

Communication skills

Education

Graduate degree in engineering / statistics / commerce

Job description

This role is for one of Weekday's clients

Salary range: Rs 500000 - Rs 1500000 (ie INR 5 - 15 LPA)

Min Experience: 3+ years

Location: Mumbai, Maharashtra, India

JobType: full-time

ROLE SUMMARY

Work directly with the owner to map business processes, find and fix gaps, design improved systems, and execute them in software (Python / pandas / Excel). Act as the quality filter between the owner and the team - reviewing all incoming analytical work (quotations, Excel models, formulas) for errors, structure and logic.

Requirements

KEY RESPONSIBILITIES

• Understand business processes by talking to people across departments and asking the right questions; map current process flows (production planning, forecasting, costing, and similar areas)
• Identify gaps in processes, design improved systems, and implement them using Python/pandas/Excel or equivalent tools
• Build and maintain automation for recurring analysis and reporting
• Review the team's Excel work - quotations, formulas, models - as a filter before it reaches the owner: check for errors, structure and logic
• Translate the owner's requirements into working, tested solutions and execute end to end

MUST-HAVE SKILLS

• Strong Excel: formulas, structuring workbooks, auditing other people's sheets
• Python with pandas (or equivalent data tools - must be able to deliver the same outcomes)
• Analytical, structured, logical mind with strong error-catching ability - accuracy is critical in this role
• Good communication skills - comfortable talking to people to extract process knowledge; personable and easy to talk to, not a silent back-office profile

GOOD TO HAVE

• Business/commercial awareness (costing, quotations, planning)
• Manufacturing or SME exposure
• Graduate in engineering / statistics / commerce with a strong quantitative bent

Must-have Skills

Python, Business Process Mapping

Good-to-have Skills

Computer Science, engineer