Business Analyst Infor M3 Food Finance / Business Analystess Infor M3 Food Finance

Company Description

Inter IKEA Group unites three core businesses: Retail Concept, Range, and Supply. Together, we continuously strive to enhance the IKEA home furnishing offer, making it more accessible to a wide audience.

IKEA Supply is dedicated to ensuring that our product offerings are produced and delivered to our customers efficiently. We take the lead in supply chain management across various functions, collaborating with all business areas and retail markets to guarantee customer availability in every market and sales channel at the lowest total cost.

IKEA Food Supply AG manages the global procurement of the entire IKEA food range, along with warehousing and distribution to and from our main distribution centers, ensuring the food range is available in all IKEA stores worldwide.

The Capability Area Wholesale Finance plays a crucial role in supporting our global financial processes within the wholesale sector (furniture and food) through information technology. We are eager to expand our Capability Area Wholesale Finance even further!

Job Description

IKEA is on a transformative journey to enhance our digital capabilities, integrating core business processes, people, data, and technology to become a superior home furnishing company in the future. As part of this journey, we are doing remarkable work and need exceptional individuals - this position is no exception.

As a Business Analyst, you will collaborate closely with key stakeholders to clarify business needs, manage requirements, and evaluate solutions, all to deliver significant business value in a rapidly growing environment.

Your responsibilities will include:

• Identifying potential improvements by eliciting, analyzing, challenging, and documenting business needs.
• Assessing the business consequences and risks associated with solution alternatives regarding processes, organization, tools, and information.
• Ensuring the quality and traceability of stakeholder needs and business requirements while supporting the evaluation of solution alternatives.
• Effectively communicating, clarifying, and safeguarding evolving business needs throughout a project or solution lifecycle.
• Collaborating with architects and developers to clarify business needs during the definition and validation of high-level and low-level designs.
• Reviewing test plans and test cases to ensure they comply with requirements while supporting the planning and execution of testing activities.
• Securing and handing over requirement-related artifacts to development and line organizations.

Qualifications

We offer a challenging and dynamic global role where you will play an active and vital part in shaping the future of Business Analysis within the Capability Area Wholesale Finance.

• Extensive knowledge and experience in business analysis and modeling, as well as the requirements management process according to BABOK.
• Excellent analytical skills, capable of seeing the big picture and the details, identifying patterns, and structuring complex information.
• Eager to work in a global environment with a desire to understand the underlying reasons for decisions.
• Experience with large-scale ERP solutions, specifically Infor M3, within the Finance domain.
• Knowledge of test methods and tools, focusing on acceptance testing, and an understanding of unit, system, and integration testing.
• Strong listening skills, able to engage with stakeholders, understand their needs, and communicate effectively.
• Exemplifying IKEA values, with excellent communication skills and the ability to build trustworthy relationships.
• Ability to adapt to a changing environment where requirements may shift rapidly, necessitating quick delivery of solutions.

Additionally, we believe you have:

• A university degree or equivalent work experience.
• Experience collaborating with global and/or remote teams.
• Note for Switzerland: Due to the extended permit process, we prefer candidates with a valid Swiss work permit or EU/EFTA citizenship.

More Information

Does this sound like your next challenge? This position is located in Pratteln, Switzerland. We look forward to receiving your application in English.

Please note that only applications matching the job profile will be considered. Apply online using the form below.

If you have any questions regarding the role, please reach out to the recruiting manager, Henrietta Gygli-Aulin at henrietta.gygli-aulin@inter.ikea.com, Digital Product Area Manager.

For inquiries related to the recruitment process, contact Daniel Ploianu, People & Culture Generalist, at daniel.ploianu@inter.ikea.com.