MorePeople is partnering with a Northamptonshire based food manufacturer to recruit their next Business Analyst. This role is central to evaluating business operations, identifying opportunities for improvement, and supporting the delivery of both technology and process driven solutions. The successful candidate will act as a key link between business stakeholders and technical teams, ensuring requirements are accurately captured, clearly documented, and translated into effective outcomes.
Key Responsibilities
- Engage with stakeholders to gather, analyse, and define business requirements in a clear and structured way.
- Review existing processes to identify inefficiencies, risks, and areas for improvement.
- Recommend enhancements and support the delivery of process improvement initiatives.
- Produce high quality documentation, including business requirements, user stories, acceptance criteria, and process flows.
- Collaborate with internal teams and third party developers to ensure solutions meet business needs.
- Support the full project lifecycle by clarifying requirements, managing feedback, and ensuring alignment.
- Assist with user acceptance testing UAT, including planning, creating test scenarios, and supporting execution.
- Build and maintain strong stakeholder relationships, ensuring clear communication and aligned expectations.
- Present analysis, recommendations, and project updates to stakeholders at all levels.
- Maintain clear traceability of requirements from initial capture through to delivery.
- Develop reports, dashboards, and insights to support business decision making.
Essential Skills and Experience
- Proven experience as a Business Analyst, typically 2 to 5 years.
- Strong understanding of business process mapping and modelling techniques.
- Excellent analytical and problem solving skills.
- Experience producing clear and detailed requirements documentation, including user stories and acceptance criteria.
- Strong communication skills, with the ability to work effectively across IT teams, third party providers, and business stakeholders.
Desirable Skills
- Experience working with enterprise systems, IT infrastructure, or digital transformation programmes.
- Familiarity with Microsoft Business Central, including system improvement or optimisation.
- Knowledge of SQL or data visualisation tools such as QlikSense or Power BI.
Personal Attributes
- Highly organised with strong attention to detail.
- Able to work independently as well as collaboratively within cross functional teams.
- Comfortable managing multiple priorities in a fast paced environment.
- Strong commercial awareness, with an understanding of how systems support business operations.
Education
- Degree in Business, Information Technology, or a related field, or equivalent practical experience.
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