Business Analyst

3 weeks ago


Birmingham Business Park, United Kingdom Alliance Automotive Group UK Full time

To support the growth of customer system integration demands, the UK&I IT Services function is recruiting a new Business Analyst to join the Customer Integrations team to provide market-leading headless solutions to the automotive aftermarket.

As a Business Analyst in the Customer Integrations team, you are expected to open up dialogue between stakeholders, commercial teams, customers and wider IT function. You will help to translate business needs into a functioning set of systems that improveintegration with our customers and overall business performance.

Our Business Analysts deep dive into the current business capabilities, needs and technology gaps, then identify appropriate solutions. They lead implementation projects and are expected to manage multiple stakeholders throughout the process.

Once new solutions are installed, the Business Analyst will work through post-project tasks, such as staff training and monitoring the new systems/hardware.

Typical business analyst duties include:

- Using modelling tools and analysis to identify business IT needs.
- Understanding product data and their use in our sales tools.
- Handling multiple systems to deliver business objectives.
- Creating IT project plans, development specifications and testing plans.
- Stakeholder management (all levels)
- Assisting with software integration, testing and releases
- Staff training for new processes, software and systems
- Analysing system performance and proposing improvements

**Required Skills**:

- Excellent written and verbal communication skills
- Good knowledge of creating technical design requirements from their own analysis and discovery techniques.
- Able to create and maintain functional and non-functional detailed requirements, process maps, user stories and relevant documentation in an iterative and collaborative manner using best practice principles.
- Proven understanding of system integrations via APIs (REST,SOAP) and EDI.
- Experience of working with XML and JSON data formats.
- API Testing using Swagger, Postman (or similar tools)
- Knowledge of SQL query writing, preferable in MS SQL Server
- Proven experience of working as part of a team delivering software and/or business process change
- Experience of stakeholder management, including external and internal influences
- Good knowledge of the software life cycle from analysis to testing
- Desire to be part of a maturing agile delivery team
- Excellent personal management skills and proactive attitude
- Experience using an ESB integration software is preferred

Applicants should possess some or all of the following qualities:

- Excellent Excel and other Microsoft Technology stack, including MS SQL Server
- Collaborative skills
- Proactive attitude
- Business acumen
- Good written and verbal communication
- An analytical mind

Education and work history:

- Business Studies
- Business Administration
- IT
- Management

Alliance Automotive Group (AAG) is a subsidiary of Genuine Parts Group, a US listed company and the world’s largest distributor of aftermarket spare parts for passenger cars and commercial vehicles. The group has global revenues of US$19Billion with operationsin North America, Europe, and Australasia. The UK Group has annualised sales of c.£900m.

The UK Group is a dynamic business growing both organically and by acquisition, operating from over 300 locations and employing over 5,000 staff in the UK. The AAG network supplies 30,000 repairers, auto centres, fast fitters, transport operators, and bodyshops every single day. With over 250 million cars and 70 million commercial vehicles on Europe’s roads, our sophisticated supply chain and logistics infrastructure ensures the efficient delivery of spare parts to repairers in our markets.


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