Senior IT Business Analyst New

Senior IT Business Analyst – Source to Pay

Location: Dublin (Hybrid), On-site 2-3 days per week

Role Overview:

The Senior Business Analyst will lead requirements gathering, process mapping, and solution design for complex initiatives, ensuring alignment with strategic objectives.

Key Responsibilities:

• Collaborate with business stakeholders to understand strategic goals, operational challenges, and technology needs.
• Lead the documentation, and validation of business and functional requirements.
• Mentor and coach junior team Business Analysts on best practice around functional business requirements documentation.
• Translate business needs into clear, actionable user stories or specifications for IT development teams.
• Facilitate workshops, interviews, and process mapping sessions with cross-functional teams.
• Analyses and optimize end-to-end source to pay processes using data-driven insights.
• Support project delivery through the full lifecycle: from discovery and design to testing and deployment.
• Act as a liaison between business units and IT, ensuring clear communication and alignment.
• Contribute to the development of business cases, ROI analysis, and change impact assessments.
• Supports where required change management activities particularly around completing impact assessments on key user groups.

Required Qualifications:

• 7+ years of experience as a Business Analyst, with at least 2 years in a senior or lead role.
• Strong knowledge of Source to Pay processes (e.g., procurement, supplier onboarding, assessment and management, purchase order management)
• Proven experience with business process modeling (e.g., BPMN), data analysis, and requirements management.
• Familiarity with Agile, Scrum, and/or Waterfall methodologies.
• Proficiency in tools such as Visio, Power BI, Focus Build or similar.
• Excellent communication, facilitation, and stakeholder management skills.

Preferred But (Not Essential) Qualifications:

• Experience in the manufacturing industry.
• Certifications in Business Analysis (CBAP, PMI-PBA) or Agile (Scrum Master, Product Owner).
• Experience working with Big Four consultancies an advantage