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Role Business Analyst – 12 month FTC

Salary: £40,000 - £50,000

Location: Lacock, Wiltshire

Working Hours: Monday – Friday, 40 hours per week

Stonegate Farmers are seeking a Business Analyst to join us on a 12 month FTC, working out of our Head Office in Wiltshire. Reporting into our IT Director, your primary role will be to support the delivery of efficient business processes, through the implementation of process change and system improvement. This includes performing detailed requirements analysis, documenting processes, contributing to projects and management of small projects.

About Stonegate Farmers Ltd

Stonegate Farmers Ltd is an integrated free range and organic egg business organised across three divisions comprising farming and agriculture, egg packing and cooked egg processing. Established in 1926 and under new ownership since 2016, we have grown into one the largest free-range and organic egg producers within the UK.

Moving millions of mother nature’s most fragile food items every day takes finesse and know how. We work closely with our producers to collect, grade and package each individual egg. We deliver daily from hen houses right across the country to the most exclusive restaurants and to many of the UK’s leading supermarkets, together with first class egg products to some of the biggest names in food manufacturing.

So many fresh eggs requires fresh thinking therefore we only employ the most enthusiastic people for our operations, who have hearts of gold – just like our eggs!

Role & Responsibilities:

* Developing, implementing, and maintaining our ERP (JD Edwards).

* Configuring functions and workflow to facilitate ERP (JD Edwards) integration with other applications.

* Defining requirements, scope and objectives related to business processes.

* Translating business requirements into systems solutions.

* Creating user guides, training material, policies, and other pertinent documentation for internal and external partners.

* Researching, troubleshooting, and mitigating transactional and other ERP issues.

* Performing business systems and workflow analysis and disseminating technical communications.

* Lead or participate in multiple projects by completing and updating project documentation; managing project scope; adjusting schedules when necessary; determining daily priorities; ensuring efficient and on-time delivery of project tasks and milestones; following proper escalation paths; and managing customer and supplier relationships.

* Collaborate closely with developers to implement the requirements, provide necessary guidance to testers.

* Identify improvement opportunities (proactive and reactive).

* Understand and negotiate needs and expectations of multiple stakeholders.

* Serve as a liaison between Operations and IT to assist or gather business requirements needed for system modifications, enhancement, and implementations.

* Develop and execute test plans.

* Support system conversions, upgrades, enhancements.

Person Specification:

* Able to display our company values: Respect, Aspire, Courage, One Team, Diversity

* Excellent communication skills, both written and verbal

* Analytical and methodical in approach

* Works flexibly

* Able to see all sides of a problem (technology isn’t always the answer)

Qualifications / Experience:

* Degree / Equivalent in Computer Sciences or related field (Preferred)

* 3 years’ experience within similar role

* Experience implementing Finance, HR or Transport & Logistics systems

* General knowledge of ERP\MRP applications and how they work for functional areas such as Finance, Order Management, Engineer to Order, Warehouse/Inventory and Reporting.

* Demonstrated ability to work with functional leaders and team members to discover, document, design and implement business processes in an ERP application platform.

* Basic Project Management skills to build, manage and execute a plan — both in terms of self-management as well as working with small process improvement teams.

* Ability to articulate, document and design transactional and analytical reports for delivery through reporting and analysis platforms.

* Proficient across Microsoft Word & Excel

* Ability to respond to help desk requests after hours on a limited basis