Business Analyst (Finance) in Lichfield

As a Business Analyst you’ll play a key role in the integration and ongoing development of Our Co-op’s financial operating platforms and processes, acting as a bridge between business stakeholders and technical development teams. You’ll develop an understanding of our strategy, processes, business and IT roadmaps.

Working collaboratively with business stakeholders, you’ll be responsible for identifying financial business needs, clearly defining and documenting these in prioritised business requirements. You’ll work closely with our Finance and IT teams on design documents and delivery. Critical to the role will be your development of understanding and documentation of the capabilities required to address the business challenges – understanding business problems and generating creative and innovative solutions to these business challenges.

You’ll help to ensure that finance system functionality and workflows meet our business needs and deliver efficient and effective operational solutions and compelling customer experiences. Additionally, working with business stakeholders you’ll define and prioritise any necessary enhancements to existing systems. You’ll help support system owners with the management of backlogs and enhancement roadmaps - developing and prioritising these in alignment with business needs.

You’ll work closely with technical development teams to scope and design potential system changes and solutions. You’ll analyse any proposed system changes and solutions to understand any impact to business and assess any potential risks to the business. This role will see you support change management and transition of new system functionalities and workflows into the business to maximise adoption and success.

Bringing a technical qualification in Business Analysis/IT systems, you’ll also have proven experience, for a minimum of 5 years, as a Business Analyst, particularly in large-scale transformation programmes. You will also have experience of finance and retail system capabilities, including key features, functionalities and associated business processes and workflows. You’ll have experience of system development methodologies and tools in addition to your experience of process documentation, workflow automation and system integrations.

To be successful in this role, you’ll need excellent communication and presentation skills. You’ll be confident in communicating and presenting to a range of audiences. You’ll need to be able to uplift and simplify complexity to wider stakeholders. You’ll be an excellent collaborator - someone who can build strong stakeholder relationships at all levels. Bringing a passion for creative solutions and a positive attitude to change, you’ll be able to demonstrate excellent analytical skills and use evidence-based approaches in your work.

Everyone is welcome here. We’re happy to make reasonable adjustments so that all our candidates can show us how they’ll perform their role. There is a section in the application form where you can provide any additional information. Please use this section to include any reasonable adjustments you need, and we’ll do our best to support you through our recruitment process.

In addition to our competitive salaries, our colleagues also benefit from:

• Fantastic colleague discount - Reward ££’s and discounts across our Retail and Funeral businesses.
• Retail discounts - our hub offers colleagues access to hundreds of exclusive retail discounts, savings on days out and holiday discounts.
• Colleague Dividend - We pay a share of our profits to eligible colleagues as a thank you for their contribution to our success.
• Colleague recognition - we celebrate our colleague’s achievements both personally and professionally.
• Personalised learning and development - with easy access to a wide range of training programmes.
• Paid time for volunteering - we encourage our colleagues to spend three days per year taking part in volunteering, fully paid for by us.
• Enhanced family friendly policies - to help you feel fully supported during any significant life events.

Wellbeing:

• Annual health check kit and virtual GP – Finger prick blood test kit, that is sent to Square Healthcare for your personal healthcare report, and access to a virtual GP 7 days a week 8am to 8pm for you and your family.
• Colleague assistance programme – to support you and your family when you need it the most.
• Healthcare Cashplan - your wellbeing is important, so you’ve got the opportunity to contribute into a voluntary plan that helps pay towards a range of healthcare expenses.
• Company sick pay – We offer company sick pay to colleagues so that you can focus on getting better and returning to work in full health.
• Life Assurance - after an initial qualifying period, you’ll get free life assurance cover, that pays your nominated beneficiary if you die while you’re working for us.
• We’ve got you – our colleague wellbeing campaign, making wellbeing benefits and resources accessible and relevant to the role that you do.
• Give as you earn - helping you support charities which mean something to you.

Financial Wellbeing:

• iTrent Financial Wellbeing (Wagestream)- offers something for all our colleagues, whether you want to track your finances, save some money, or access up to 50% of your earned pay flexibly in a way that suits you.
• The Money Co-op – Free access to support all aspects of your financial wellbeing, such as savings and loans at competitive rates.

Salary Sacrifice schemes:

• Electric Vehicle scheme – Option to purchase your EV through salary sacrifice.
• Share Incentive Plan (SIP) – option to buy shares within the Society, where they will attract interest and £10 worth of matching shares.
• Cycle to Work scheme – Option to purchase your bicycle and accessories through salary sacrifice.
• Holiday buy - colleagues can buy up to a week extra of annual leave each year.

Company Pension - you can access a company pension scheme with us as well as access to Pension wellbeing information.

Nous smart assistant that can save you money and time on managing your household bills.

To find out more about all of these plus many more reasons to join us, please visit Rewards and benefits - Central Coop (careers.coop).

OurCoop is the UK’s largest independent co-operative Society, with more than one million Members and 13,000 colleagues operating in communities nationwide. It was formed by bringing together Central Co-op, The Midcounties Co-operative and Chelmsford Star Co-op to create a stronger, member-owned organisation rooted in shared co-operative values. The Society trades nationally through its family of businesses while remaining deeply rooted in local communities. Its footprint spans Gloucestershire, Oxfordshire, Wiltshire and Bedfordshire in the South and West; the Midlands including Derbyshire, Staffordshire and Northamptonshire; the North including Cheshire, Greater Manchester, Lancashire and Yorkshire; and the East of England, including Essex, Norfolk and Suffolk. OurCoop and its family of businesses are trading names of Central England Co-operative Limited.