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

Company Description

Inter IKEA Group brings together three core businesses: Retail Concept, Range, and Supply. Together, we strive to enhance the IKEA home furnishing offer and make it accessible to everyone.

IKEA Supply is responsible for ensuring that our product offerings are produced and delivered to our customers efficiently. We lead the supply agenda across various functions, collaborating with all business areas, diverse business units, and retail markets to secure customer availability at the lowest total cost.

IKEA Food Supply AG oversees the global purchasing of the complete IKEA food range, warehousing, and distribution in and out of our main distribution centers, as well as selling the IKEA food range to all IKEA stores worldwide.

The Capability Area Wholesale Finance guarantees that our global financial processes within the wholesale business (furniture & food) are supported by information technology today and into the future. We are excited to expand our Capability Area Wholesale Finance even further!

Job Description

IKEA is on an exciting journey to transform our digital capabilities, integrating core business processes, people, data, and technology to enable a better future for home furnishing. As we undertake this journey, we seek exceptional individuals to join our team, and this role is no exception.

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

Your responsibilities will include, but are not limited to:

• Identifying potential improvements by eliciting, analyzing, challenging, and documenting all business needs.
• Assessing business consequences and risks of 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.
• Communicating, clarifying, and safeguarding evolving business needs throughout a project's or solution's life cycle.
• Collaborating with architects and developers to clarify business needs during high-level and low-level design definitions and validations.
• Reviewing test plans and cases to ensure compliance with requirements and supporting the planning and execution of testing activities.
• Securing and handing over requirement-related artifacts to the development and line organization.

Qualifications

We offer you a challenging, exciting, and rewarding global role where you will be an integral part of driving the future of Business Analysis within the Capability Area Wholesale Finance.

We believe you have:

• Extensive knowledge and experience in business analysis and modeling, along with a strong understanding of the requirements management process according to BABOK.
• Excellent analytical skills, with the ability to see the big picture while also focusing on details, identifying patterns, and structuring complex information.
• A passion for working in a global environment and a desire to understand the “Why?”.
• Experience with large-scale ERP solutions, particularly Infor M3, in the Finance domain.
• Knowledge of testing methodologies and tools, with a focus on acceptance testing, as well as an understanding of unit, system, and integration testing.
• Exceptional listening skills, allowing you to effectively interact with stakeholders to understand their needs while ensuring they understand your perspective.
• The ability to act as a role model for IKEA values, demonstrating strong communication skills and the capacity to build trustful relationships.

You are adaptable, able to thrive in an environment where conditions may change from day to day, and capable of delivering results on short notice.

Additionally, we believe you should possess:

• A university degree or equivalent work experience.
• Experience working with global and/or remote teams.
• Note for Switzerland: We prefer candidates with a valid Swiss work permit or EU/EFTA citizenship due to lengthy permit processes.

More Information

Does this sound like your next challenge?

This position will be located in Pratteln, Switzerland. We look forward to receiving your application in English. Please apply online using the form below.

Please note: Only applications matching the job profile will be considered.

For more information about the position, please contact recruiting manager Henrietta Gygli-Aulin at henrietta.gygli-aulin@inter.ikea.com, Digital Product Area Manager.

If you have questions about the recruitment process, please reach out to Daniel Ploianu, People & Culture Generalist at daniel.ploianu@inter.ikea.com.