Business Data Analyst

The Business Analyst Data & Analytics acts as the key link between business stakeholders and the Data & Analytics team, ensuring that business requirements are translated into clear, actionable data and reporting requirements.

Working across multiple business functions, the role is responsible for understanding business processes, identifying opportunities to improve decision making through data, documenting requirements, and supporting the successful delivery of analytics, dashboards, reporting and data solutions.

The role also works closely with Business Systems Specialists and application owners to understand source systems, business processes, data structures and operational impacts, ensuring solutions are technically feasible and aligned with enterprise architecture and governance standards.

Requirements Gathering

Capture, document and validate business requirements.

Produce high-quality Business Requirements Documents (BRDs), functional specifications and user stories where appropriate.

Ensure acceptance criteria are clearly defined before development begins.

Data & Analytics Delivery

Work alongside Data Engineers, BI Developers and Data Architects

throughout project delivery.

• Validate that delivered dashboards and reports meet agreed business

requirements.

• Coordinate User Acceptance Testing (UAT).
• Assist with backlog refinement and prioritisation.

Business Systems Collaboration

• Work closely with Business Systems Specialists, Product Owners and System

Administrators.

• Develop an understanding of operational systems including their processes,

workflows and data structures.

• Identify where required data resides across business applications.
• Understand upstream and downstream system dependencies.
• Support data mapping exercises between source systems and analytics

platforms.

• Help resolve data quality or process issues through collaboration with

system owners.

Stakeholder Management

• Communicate effectively with both technical and non-technical audiences.
• Manage stakeholder expectations throughout delivery.
• Escalate risks, issues and dependencies where appropriate.

Required Skills & Experience

• Essential
• Experience as a Business Analyst within Data & Analytics, Business

Intelligence or Information Management.

• Strong requirements gathering and workshop facilitation skills.
• Experience working between business stakeholders and technical teams.
• Understanding of reporting and analytics solutions.
• Experience documenting business processes.
• Excellent stakeholder management skills.
• Strong analytical and problem-solving capability.
• Experience supporting User Acceptance Testing.
• Understanding of relational databases and data concepts.
• Experience working within Agile, Waterfall or hybrid delivery

methodologies.

• Desirable

• Experience within a global organisation.

• Understanding of Data Governance principles.

• Knowledge of data warehousing concepts.

• Familiarity with Microsoft Fabric, Azure, Power BI or similar analytics

platforms.

• Experience working with ERP, CRM and operational business systems.
• Knowledge of SQL for data investigation.
• Experience using Azure DevOps, Jira or similar backlog management tools.
• Understanding of API-based integrations and enterprise applications.