Senior IT Business Analyst – Data

Groupe Florimond Desprez (GFD)breeds varieties and produces seeds to meet the needs of arable crop farmers, the agro-industrial sectors and consumers, while actively supporting the agro-ecological transition.The group mainly works with species intended for human consumption and is a world leader in sugar beet seeds, a leading European breeder of straw cereal and a major player in the European seed potato market.Florimond Desprez is an independent family-owned company founded in 1830 that operates in 65 countries, devotes 15% of its sales to research and employs 1200 persons.Groupe Florimond Desprez is headquartered in Cappelle-en-Pévèle, France.

The GFD IT team provides services and support to all the companies in the group, including UBS, headquartered in Tienen, Belgium.

JOB DESCRIPTION

AsBusinessAnalyst, you will analyze, define and implement our Group IT Data and Applications Services in an international context.You’llsupport business end users with functional questions related to the applications and data domain,in order toguarantee qualitative IT services and continuity.You’llalso act as a bridge between stakeholders and technical teams to align our business needs with IT solutions.

You will be based on our site inTienen, Belgium.

More specifically, yourmaintaskswithin this role will be the following:

Business process analysis and improvement:
– Understanding the vision and pain points of the business processes and transforming them into requirements to realize strategic goals
– Developing process maps,workflowsor other models torepresentthe current (AS-IS) and future (TO-BE) state of business processes
– Identifyinggaps, inefficiencies and opportunities for process improvement,optimizationand automation

Requirement gathering and analysis:
– Collaborating with stakeholders to understand their processes,needsandchallenges
– Gathering,documentingandvalidatingbusiness requirements by setting up workshops and alignment sessions
– Assuring that all requirements are clearly understood,documentedand agreed upon by stakeholders

Stakeholder management:
– Managing relationships with business stakeholders to understand their processes, pain points,goalsand priorities
– Acting as a liaison between business units, ITteamsand project managers
– Managing expectations and aligning solutions over the different business units tofacilitatethe delivery of global solutions

Testing and validation:
– Assistingin the creation of test plans, creatingtestscenariosandvalidatingthe functionality of the solution
– Supporting end users during UAT (User Acceptance Testing) phases and providing training where necessary

Support and aftercare:
– Monitoring the ticketing system and acting as a liaison between the business users and the engineers, documenting the functional scope of theissueand preparing/checking that the tickets are ready for development
– Managing proper communication with the users and assuring them in a polite and calm way

Continuousimprovement:
– Proactivelyidentifyinginefficiencies in applications and reporting and implementing effective solutions
– Performing detailed assessment of existing applications and systems toidentifybottlenecks and pain points
– Leveraging data and feedback from stakeholders to propose actionable changes

Employee onboarding:
– Integrating new team members into the department
– Facilitating initial training sessions on company systems,processesand procedures
– Acting as the primary point of contact for new hires during their onboarding period

PROFILE& REQUIREMENTS

• You have aMaster’sdegree with at least 8-10 years of experience in analysis.
• You have proven interest or experience in a functional role, preferably in an international environment.
• You have proven experience as a business and functional analyst, software engineer, dataanalystor a similar role in a similar environment.
• You have an excellent knowledge of multiple business processes, both in the domain of R&D and supply chain in an international context split over multiple business units and crops.
• You master the ability to translate business requirements in functional specifications for both applications and reporting/data analysis design.You’reable to translate business requirements into technical designs, defining the functional scope.
• You have a strong knowledge of requirements management tools like Azure DevOps, Jira,Confluenceor similar.
• You have experience with process mapping tools like MAVIM (BPMN tools) and Microsoft Visio.
• You’refamiliar with an agile way of working (e.g.Azure DevOps, Jira) and have experienceinworking with structu