Business Analyst

Salary: £50,000 - 55,000 per year

Requirements:

• Proven experience as a Business Analyst within complex organisational environments
• Strong background delivering HR, Finance, Payroll, ERP or workforce-related transformation projects
• Experience working across business and technology teams
• Skilled in requirements elicitation, workshop facilitation and stakeholder management
• Strong process mapping and business process improvement expertise
• Experience operating within Agile, Waterfall or hybrid delivery environments
• Comfortable supporting testing, UAT and change activities
• Healthcare, NHS, healthcare services, retail or consumer-facing sector experience
• Exposure to HR platforms such as Workday, SuccessFactors, Oracle HCM, iTrent or Dayforce
• Experience with Finance platforms such as SAP, Oracle ERP, Dynamics 365 Finance or Unit4
• Knowledge of BPMN, Lean Six Sigma or Value Stream Mapping
• Familiarity with Power BI, Jira, Confluence and Visio
• Exposure to AI, automation, Power Automate, UiPath or Copilot-enabled business processes
• Collaborative and proactive approach with the ability to engage stakeholders at all levels

Responsibilities:

• Lead business analysis activities across multiple change initiatives
• Facilitate workshops, interviews and stakeholder sessions to elicit requirements
• Analyse and document current and future state business processes
• Produce high-quality business requirements, user stories, process maps and functional specifications
• Work closely with HR, Finance, Operations and Technology teams to define solutions
• Support requirements traceability, prioritisation and governance activities
• Identify process inefficiencies and recommend improvements
• Assist with testing, validation and business readiness activities
• Manage risks, dependencies and impacts associated with business change
• Support adoption of automation and AI-enabled solutions where appropriate

Technologies:

• AI
• BPMN
• Copilot
• Confluence
• ERP
• Support
• JIRA
• Oracle
• Power BI
• SAP
• UiPath
• Office 365

More:

We are an established UK organisation seeking an experienced Business Analyst to support a portfolio of transformation initiatives across HR, Finance and back-office systems. You will work within a complex, multi-site environment, acting as the bridge between business stakeholders and delivery teams to help shape and deliver process improvements, technology enhancements and strategic change programmes. This is a permanent, fixed-term or contract opportunity depending on requirement, based in Manchester with one day per week onsite and the remainder remote. The role sits within healthcare or retail sector context and offers the chance to work across HR, Payroll, Workforce Management, ERP and Finance system landscapes. We value collaborative, proactive people who enjoy stakeholder engagement, process optimisation and improving systems and user experiences.

last updated 34 week of 2026