Business Analyst - Process & Automation

KEY RESPONSIBILITIES:

• Understand business processes by talking to people across departments and asking the right questions; map current process flows (production planning, forecasting, costing, and similar areas).
• Identify gaps in processes, design improved systems, and implement them using Python/pandas/Excel or equivalent tools.
• Build and maintain automation for recurring analysis and reporting.
• Review the team's Excel work — quotations, formulas, models — as a filter before it reaches the owner: check for errors, structure and logic.
• Translate the owner's requirements into working, tested solutions and execute end to end.
• MUST-HAVE SKILLS:
• Strong Excel: formulas, structuring workbooks, auditing other people's sheets
• Python with pandas (or equivalent data tools — must be able to deliver the same outcomes)
• Analytical, structured, logical mind with strong error-catching ability — accuracy is critical in this role
• Good communication skills — comfortable talking to people to extract process knowledge; personable and easy to talk to, not a silent back-office profile
• GOOD TO HAVE:
• Business/commercial awareness (costing, quotations, planning)
• Manufacturing or SME exposure
• Graduate in engineering / statistics / commerce with a strong quantitative bent
• Python, Business Process Mapping
• Computer Science, engineer

Must-have skills

Good-to-have skills

Qualifications

• Understand business processes by talking to people across departments and asking the right questions; map current process flows (production planning, forecasting, costing, and similar areas).
• Identify gaps in processes, design improved systems, and implement them using Python/pandas/Excel or equivalent tools.
• Build and maintain automation for recurring analysis and reporting.
• Review the team's Excel work — quotations, formulas, models — as a filter before it reaches the owner: check for errors, structure and logic.
• Translate the owner's requirements into working, tested solutions and execute end to end.
• Strong Excel: formulas, structuring workbooks, auditing other people's sheets
• Python with pandas (or equivalent data tools — must be able to deliver the same outcomes)
• Analytical, structured, logical mind with strong error-catching ability — accuracy is critical in this role
• Good communication skills — comfortable talking to people to extract process knowledge; personable and easy to talk to, not a silent back-office profile
• Business/commercial awareness (costing, quotations, planning)
• Manufacturing or SME exposure
• Graduate in engineering / statistics / commerce with a strong quantitative bent
• Must-have skills
• Python, Business Process Mapping
• Good-to-have skills
• Computer Science, engineer