Position: Business Analyst
Company: Recruiter Flex Solution
Category: Business Analyst
Experience required: 3y
English level: upper

We are looking for a candidate that has a well-rounded business analysis experience for software delivery in the context of a manufacturing company.

We are looking for a candidate that has a well-rounded business analysis experience for software delivery in the context of a manufacturing company. They should have recent and detailed practical experience working on large and complex projects, working across multiple business domains, multiple stakeholders, multiple sites, and multiple countries (time zones). They should be comfortable working independently yet delivering high-quality work, in a very technically demanding context.

**Must have demonstrable experience of:**
- Conducting business process modeling, target operating model (TOM) design, gap analysis, and eliciting requirements.
- Creating solution documentation such as user stories, user journeys, wireframes, data models, and flows.
- Quickly developing domain knowledge and communicating with engineers in detail. 
- Assuring alignment of development, configuration, and testing of code with business requirements.
- Developing requirements that span multiple enterprise systems e.g. human resource (HR), enterprise resource planning (ERP), finance, and manufacturing.
- Full project lifecycle, from inception to delivery including test strategies and defect resolution.
- Collaborating with business stakeholders, who may not be familiar with software development methodologies.


**Candidates must be located in Europe Economic Area (EEA) or US or South Africa or Turkey**


**Advantages to having experience of:**
- Manufacturing Execution Systems, specifically production scheduling, quality management, work order process flow, and bill of materials (BOM) management.
- Software development.
- User experience design. 
- Project management.
- Formal qualification in business analysis, especially agile business analysis.

**Responsibilities:**
- Map business processes, user journeys and data flows. Identify “to be” improvements. Promote standardisation of processes. 
- Take very technical business requirements and develop into detailed development requirements, user stories, wireframes and other solution documentation. 
- Support development as part of the sprint team. Participate in story refinement, contribute to test materials, participate in testing, support training delivery. Ensure quality controls are in place.
- Contribute to the development of business cases and project plans. - - - Track progress. Maintain engagement with project sponsors and stakeholders to inform of all developments. Demonstrate successful delivery to the original business objectives and requirements.

**Working Practices:**
- Delivery methodology is SAFE Agile with 2-weekly sprints. There are daily stand-ups and fortnightly sprint planning meetings.
- Team comprises: Business Analyst (led by Lead BA), Solution Architect, QA Engineers, Development Lead, Full Stack Developers. Candidate will be working in a scrum triplet of 2x Developers, QA and BA.
- BA tools include: Atlassian suite and Microsoft Office suite. Other tools in use include: Visual Studio, Teams, Azure DevOps, Git, JIRA, Slack.

**Additional Information:**
- Role is fully remote.
- Initial duration is 6 months, but strong likelihood of extension. 
Standard work hours are 40 hours per week, no overtime. Working time zone is London (GMT/BST). 
- Candidate must be available to the team for at least 6 hours of each standard working day in the working time zone (remaining time may be worked in Candidate’s own time zone). 

**Assessment stages:**
● Assessment looking at related soft skills (30mins);
● Technical challenge with pre-prep (1 hr);
● Brief interview with the client (30mins max).


**We offer:**
● full remote with flexible business hours (from 8:00 to 20:00);
● 3 weeks of vacation per year (15 working days);
● paid sick leave per year (5 working days);
● amazing opportunities for professional growth within a top-notch team of professionals;
● competitive compensation commensurate with your experience and skills;
● English lessons;
● an excellent team with a friendly atmosphere.