Business Analyst - Process & Automation

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

Job summary

Weekday is seeking a data analyst to work directly with the owner to map business processes, identify gaps, design improved systems, and implement them using 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 translating requirements into tested end-to-end solutions.

Location: Mumbai, Maharashtra, India. Salary range: Rs 500000 - Rs 1500000 (INR 5 - 15 LPA).

Qualifications

• Analytical, structured, and detail-oriented mindset with strong error-catching ability.
• Excellent communication to extract process knowledge and work with cross-functional teams.
• Practical experience mapping business processes and designing data-driven solutions using Python/pandas/Excel.

Responsibilities

• Understand business processes by talking with stakeholders and mapping current flows (production planning, forecasting, costing).
• Identify gaps, design improved systems, and implement them using Python/pandas/Excel or equivalent tools.
• Build and maintain automation for recurring analyses and reporting.
• Review the teamC30s Excel work (quotations, formulas, models) as a quality filter for errors and logic.
• Translate owner requirements into tested, end-to-end solutions.

Skills

Analytical thinking

Communication

Attention to detail

Education

Engineering / Statistics / Commerce graduate

Tools

Python

pandas

Excel

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:

1. 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).
2. Identify gaps in processes, design improved systems, and implement them using Python/pandas/Excel or equivalent tools.
3. Build and maintain automation for recurring analysis and reporting.
4. Review the team's Excel work - quotations, formulas, models - as a filter before it reaches the owner: check for errors, structure and logic.
5. 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