Business Analyst

Job Description

Buisness Analyst - Manufacturing - Remote - up to £55000Yolk Recrutiment are looking for an experienced Business Analyst for a global manufacturer based in South Wales.The primary role of the Business Analyst (BA) will be to support the improvement of business processes and systems in alignment with the business strategy. It requires a good understanding of a manufacturing business environment, process and related IT systems (specifically relating to production scheduling, quality management, work order process flow and BOM management etc.).A function within the PMO team, the Business Analyst has many objectives within a project, and is central to its success.Responsibilities To assist in the development of business cases and project plans for business initiatives that support business strategy and goals To identify appropriate project stakeholders, develop a plan of project involvement, and develop and maintain their engagement at all stages of the requirements process through effective communication and involvement To take an active part in planning and facilitating interview and review meetings with key stakeholders To map as-is business processes and identify gaps, inefficiencies and improvements and standardisation of processes that can be made (to be processes) To ensure requirements are captured and verified with key stakeholders to facilitate the successful implementation of the project To create new or work with pre-existing high-level requirement definitions, and develop them into detailed solution documents for use by technical teams in an agile sprint delivery cycle (system configuration and/or development) To support the implementation of the above technical requirementsensuring configuration, development and testing deliver quality implementation which aligns with the original business objective and requirements To monitor and track progress against planned deliverables, ensuring stakeholders and project sponsors are kept fully informed of project developments at all times Ensure that the quality controls are in place to so that the activities relating to requirements are planned and performed correctly Experience Demonstrable evidence of expertise in requirement elicitation, with experience in working with senior stakeholders and operations staff in gathering requirements, developing strategy and translating requirements to key stakeholders (essential) Experience of working within a manufacturing industry (desireable) Experience of working on a Manufacturing Execution System (MES) programme/project, specifically production scheduling, quality management, work order process flow and BOM management (desireable) Experience of working with Business process modelling, target operating model definition and process re-engineering (essential) An understanding of information flows and processes within a multi-site, multi-national company (essential) Experience of working within waterfall, agile and hybrid methodologies and using requirements gathering techniques and documentation/communication tools that are appropriate to the methodology being used (essential) Experience of developing requirements that span multi systems e.g. human resource (HR), enterprise resource planning (ERP), finance, manufacturing, web systems etc (essential) Proven experience of undertaking sound business analysis and developing information into concisely documented requirements (essential) Practical experience of working with a number of stakeholders crossing both business and IT work streams including 3rd party suppliers (essential) Experienced in using MS Office tools e.g. Word, Excel, Project, PowerPoint, Visio, Confluence, JIRA (desirable) Experience of supporting project delivery from inception to delivery including supporting the development of test strategies and defect resolution (desirable) To show an aptitude for being able to learn and adapt quickly to the technical knowledge, to be able to draft relevant project requirements so as to work as effectively with partners during a project (desirable)Essential Skills Full Business Analysis Diploma (desirable) Business Analysis Practice (essential) Requirements Engineering (essential) Foundation Certificate in Agile Business Analysis (desirable)

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Business Analyst