Senior S2P Business Analyst

It is an exciting time to join the Nomad Foods Technology Function. Due to high growth of the business, significant investment is being made in IT; we are investing in new capabilities, transforming our application landscape, and growing our department to increase our capacity, creating more career opportunities.

We have a vacancy for a Senior Business Analyst – Source to Pay (S2P), leading a team of permanent and contract Business Analysts and Functional Consultants, working across a portfolio of projects and changes. The role ensures business requirements are delivered with benefits, cost reductions and/or service improvements.

This role will have specific responsibility for supporting our Source-to-Pay process and system related application initiatives in the Middle Office function. Strong experience in Procurement and other relevant Supply Chain areas, all the way through to invoicing, is expected.

There will be a requirement to take on some leadership and management responsibility across the broader Business Solutions team, as well as supporting the Business Partner in defining the Supply Chain Technology strategy.

Responsibilities

Management & Strategy

Work with Business Partners to perform strategic reviews and deliver systems and business functional change within the Technology Team

Act as workstream lead on large projects, or overall lead on small projects or large changes

Provide leadership to Business Analyst teams, and matrix project teams (BA’s, Infrastructure Analysts, Solution Designers, Service Delivery, Outsource partners etc.)

Lead, develop, coach and engage team members to build future leadership capabilities and ensure timely and effective completion of all people related activities including PDPs, reward reviews and succession planning

Business Analysis

Lead the collection, understanding, documentation and translation of the business requirements for changes and complex projects, into functional specifications and detailed test plans. Ensure that all activities comply with relevant Operating model procedures, including relevant Service Management, Project Lifecycle Management and Sarbanes Oxley controls

Lead the analysis in the production of business cases covering the development and implementation of business changes as necessary. Document all work using the required standards, methods and tools and recommend /lead improvements to standards where appropriate

Process Design

Provide Business Process design and documentation expertise, recommending business process and/or system improvements using formal (and informal) techniques. Lead the development and implementation of these improvements / new processes

Test & Training

Test, implement and train in systems and facilitate system and user acceptance testing

Business Knowledge & Expertise

Lead continuous improvement and capability build for Business Analyst community, collaborating with other Senior Business Analysts

Evaluate industry and competitor solutions, and incorporate into own thinking, analysis and solution design

Collaboration

Collaborates with other business analysts and IT teams to ensure consistency and quality of system and process implementations and contributes to continuous improvement initiatives across the team and function

Provide the link between the customer, development team and any third party regarding software functionality, throughout the development lifecycle

Partner with suppliers to evaluate product roadmaps and ensure successful implementation and adoption of relevant new features that benefit the organisation

Chair business change boards to qualify, prioritise and schedule a backlog of change requests and enhancements for portfolio of applications

Qualifications

Essential

Strong analytical skills coupled with knowledge of how IT applications can maximise business advantage

Knowledge of market leading ERP systems and related process implementations for SAP ECC, SAP S/4 HANA

Knowledge of SAP Ariba or similar relevant applications supporting the S2P process

Knowledge of supplier excellence and vendor management programmes

Experience of IT Service Delivery and Application support

Experience of managing a team

5-8yrs Business Analysis, covering both Waterfall and Agile project environments. Demonstrable knowledge and successful application of the principles, methods, techniques and tools of various business analysis techniques.

Demonstrating a strong track record of being a key contributor delivering business critical projects in a complex environment

A desire and ability to work in a pan-European environment is important

Desirable

Experience of group-wide Supply Chain and Procurement initiatives

Project experience in an FMCG environment would be an advantage

Experience of Finance (Order-to-Invoice)

Understanding of interface technologies / principles & EDI

Business Analysis Qualification

Regular Full-Time