Business Analyst

Job Description

We are recruiting for a Business Analyst to join the Enterprise Services Team, (Finance, HR & Legal) on a full time, permanent basis, reporting into the Delivery Lead.

This role will be working across initiatives that support our Enterprise(HR, Finance & Legal) functional area in projects that span across Europe with both internal/external teams in a matrix organisation. You will work in partnership with cross-functional teams to elicit, interpret and capture business needs into clear and concise functional / non-functional requirements, and acceptance criteria.

This role will be the consistent thread throughout the lifecycle of change, utilising strong analytical skill set to take business requirements through to successful delivery of a technical solution into the BAU teams. Whilst not responsible for direct reports, there is an expectation of this role to help drive the community of Business Analysts that sit across the functional teams with best practice tools, techniques, and methodologies.  

This role is offering a home-based contract that will require travel commitment to our depots and as such a good degree of self-motivation and flexibility is required. The role will reside within the Enterprise Technology function; however, may be required to spend time with business stakeholders on site across Europe as projects require, or work across other functional pillars as deemed necessary.

Key Accountabilities & Responsibilities:

• Responsible for translating business needs into clear technical requirements, ensuring proposed solution meets agreed outcomes.
• Key role in communicating between the business and technology, acting as a translator where necessary.
• Ensure personal knowledge and exposure to business change opportunities remains up to date, appropriate and relevant. 
• Planning and managing small scale change where needed.
• Serve projects that are part of the Enterprise technology portfolio.  There may be a requirement to deliver across functional areas / other technologies as needed.
• Support business function in the prioritisation of requirements based on business value, ensuring they are aligned to the desired outcomes and case for change.
• Work with business and technical teams, to ensure the recommended solution meets the needs of the business. 
• Empowered to positively challenge and influence across teams if the requirement, solution, or case for change, to ensure alignment to the overarching business strategy and delivery roadmap.
• Communicate cross-functionally between operational and technical teams, acting as a translator where necessary. 
• Work within internal project delivery governance processes, with familiarity of both agile and waterfall methodologies.
• For small change, management of plans, RAIDs, internal and third-party resources, costs may also be required.

About you:

To be successful in this role you must have the ability to build strong and long-lasting relationships with stakeholders through positive and proactive engagement and have the ability to ask insightful questions to extract details required from stakeholders. You will possess a high level of attention to detail and be organised with the ability to present and document information based on the needs of the project. You’ll have an analytical and inquisitive mindset and think tactically and strategically presenting options to solve problems. You will be able to lead and couch others across the vertical who are in a similar role so you will be naturally taking lead under minimal supervision. You must also have the ability to support projects in surfacing risks / issues early and suggest mitigation options to resolve.

What you’ll receive:

• A competitive salary
• Company car allowance of £5,500
• Pension scheme
• Single private medical healthcare cover
• Generous holiday allowance of 25 days, with option to purchase additional holidays + bank holidays
• Huge discounts on all sorts of lovely food and award-winning products through our staff shop
• Discounts on Cinema tickets, shopping and earn cashback on purchases through Sodexo.
• Recognition awards and Incentives
• Real career opportunities - being part of Sysco, the world’s leading foodservice business, opens up a world of possibility