Top Business Analyst Jobs in Manchester

Provides project, financial, and workforce reporting and analysis. Validates data across systems, monitors timesheet and labor allocation compliance, investigates discrepancies, produces performance reports, coordinates project review meetings, tracks follow-up actions, and identifies opportunities to improve data quality and reporting processes.

Map current and future operational and technical processes, including complex data flows, within an agile delivery team. Design and document improved processes, assess product change impacts, write and maintain Jira tickets and user stories, manage backlogs, and collaborate with multidisciplinary teams and stakeholders.

Conduct a short digital discovery into content request and publishing processes. The Business Analyst will interview stakeholders, map current and future workflows, quantify pain points, define business and functional requirements, create user stories and acceptance criteria, support prototype testing, maintain traceability, and contribute to options assessment and recommendations. The role requires strong process analysis, workshop facilitation, stakeholder engagement, and experience in digital, public-sector, or regulated environments.

Business Analyst responsible for shaping strategic initiatives, gathering and documenting requirements, facilitating stakeholder workshops, creating user stories, and maintaining product backlogs. The role translates business needs into technology solutions, supports business acceptance testing and process redesign, and may act as a Scrum Product Owner. It also contributes to continuous improvement, change management, stakeholder alignment, and the Business Analysis Community of Practice.

Manage trade expenditure processes for the French market, including customer agreements, trade conditions, claims, settlements, reconciliations, accruals, rebates, and financial reporting. Support month-end and year-end close, forecasting, budgeting, audits, governance, and process improvements. Collaborate with Sales, Finance, Trade teams, Key Account Managers, and international stakeholders while maintaining accurate data across Xtel, Atlas, SAP, BlackLine, and TPM tools.

Conduct a short discovery into content request and publishing processes. The Business Analyst will research stakeholder needs, map current and future processes, quantify pain points, define workflow and chatbot requirements, develop user journeys and acceptance criteria, support prototype testing, maintain requirements traceability, and contribute to options assessment, operating model recommendations, roadmap, and final findings.

Owns change delivery for a major transformation portfolio, coordinating impact assessments, readiness, training, engagement, risk mitigation, governance, and adoption monitoring. Partners with portfolio leads, product managers, and cross-functional stakeholders in a complex matrix environment. The role also contributes coaching, best practices, and continuous improvement to the broader change community.

Lead business analysis and strategic change initiatives across the organization, advising executives, defining and prioritizing requirements, developing business models, and overseeing holistic solutions. Manage business analysts, remove delivery blockers, coordinate suppliers, support incidents, and conduct performance reviews. Coach teams in Agile and Lean practices while guiding enterprise architecture, systems analysis, testing, stakeholder engagement, and user experience analysis.

The Business Analyst will analyze and document business processes, translate requirements into specifications and user stories, facilitate stakeholder workshops, track actions, and coordinate end-to-end UAT. Responsibilities include creating test scenarios and scripts, managing defects, verifying fixes, supporting releases with training materials, and acting as a liaison between business and technical teams. The role requires independent prioritization, strong communication, process improvement skills, and stakeholder management.

Develop and support end-to-end business analysis activities across the change portfolio. Manage requirements through software delivery lifecycles, model business processes, analyze data, facilitate stakeholder workshops, and communicate actionable insights. The role uses agile, iterative, and waterfall delivery methods and requires strong Microsoft 365, presentation, problem-solving, and interpersonal skills.

Business Analyst supporting a CIS3 compliance programme by reviewing and redesigning application lifecycle, governance, security, risk and operational processes. Responsibilities include facilitating stakeholder workshops, mapping controls to lifecycle stages, defining stage gates, RACI models, assurance processes and target operating models, and producing process maps, control matrices, gap analyses, requirements and governance frameworks. The role requires strong process design, stakeholder engagement and experience with governance, risk, compliance or information security programmes.

Lead business analysis for digital product and technical projects, translating client goals into developer-ready requirements, user stories, acceptance criteria, API contracts, data flows, and technical specifications. Analyze system data, integrations, dependencies, and backend architecture; manage project backlogs; facilitate discovery workshops and estimation; balance business priorities with technical constraints; and bridge technical and non-technical stakeholders. The role also encourages experimentation with AI tools, LLMs, and agentic workflows.

Leads end-to-end business analysis for a Finance/FP&A data product, including discovery, requirements, workshops, process and data analysis, stakeholder alignment, prioritization, UAT, traceability, and implementation readiness. The role analyzes impacts across Finance, Oracle, Workday, data pipelines, controls, and reporting; coaches other analysts; and ensures requirements are testable, documented, and aligned with business outcomes.

Client-facing business analyst and project lead delivering EMIR and MiFIR regulatory reporting transformations. Responsibilities include documenting obligations, analyzing fragmented data estates, tracing reportable attributes, mapping data to specifications, identifying gaps, managing implementation engagements, leading stakeholder workshops, producing requirements and mapping documentation, and supporting testing and validation through client go-live.

Leads client discovery, requirements elicitation, process mapping, and rapid prototyping for Dynamics 365 business application implementations. Defines functional solutions, user stories, acceptance criteria, data and integration requirements, and maintains traceability in Azure DevOps. Facilitates workshops, supports estimation, testing, user acceptance, scope management, stakeholder sign-off, and change adoption while using approved AI tools to improve requirements development.

The IT Business Analyst gathers and documents system needs, translates customer objectives into technical requirements, and acts as a liaison between clients, end users, and software developers. Responsibilities include prioritizing features, identifying technology or process solutions, supporting product development, guiding implementation, and delivering user training. The role requires Agile project experience, strong client relationships, presentation skills, independent workload management, and eligibility to obtain UK security clearance.

Supports digital transformation projects by eliciting and documenting requirements, translating them into user stories and acceptance criteria, mapping processes and user journeys, and managing delivery backlogs. Collaborates with stakeholders, Product Owners, architects, developers, and customers in Agile environments. Supports sprint planning, testing, demonstrations, and user acceptance testing while ensuring requirements remain traceable and deliver business value.

Analyzes manufacturing costs, maintains standard costing in D365 Finance & Operations, prepares financial reports, forecasts, variance analyses, reconciliations, and budgeting support. The role also manages inventory cost controls, updates bills of materials and cost drivers, supports month- and year-end activities, improves finance systems, and contributes to business analysis activities including requirements gathering, process modeling, feasibility studies, documentation, and application improvement.

The Customer Business Analyst supports client delivery by leading discovery workshops, translating business needs into requirements and user stories, designing AI-driven workflows, and analyzing product performance. The role owns test strategies, acceptance criteria, UAT, AI output validation, and continuous improvement. It requires business analysis experience, preferably in insurance, strong stakeholder management, client-facing workshop facilitation, and practical experience with AI tools, prompt engineering, and LLM limitations.

Senior Business Analyst responsible for eliciting and translating requirements for a government Generative AI platform. The role covers process mapping, gap analysis, user stories, acceptance criteria, AI guardrails, human-in-the-loop workflows, evaluation criteria, stakeholder facilitation, governance compliance, and documentation. The analyst will work across legacy systems, multi-cloud integrations, engineering, product, policy, and government stakeholders in a secure, regulated environment.

Lead technical business analyst responsible for translating business goals into technical requirements, specifications, user stories, process flows, and data models. Collaborates with product, architecture, engineering, QA, clients, and stakeholders on cloud-native, event-driven, microservices-based platforms. Supports domain modelling, API and integration analysis, backlog refinement, sprint planning, acceptance criteria, test planning, UAT, and release readiness across secure public-sector and regulated-industry projects.

Owns end-to-end new business funnel reporting, marketing performance analysis, attribution, demand KPIs, lead scoring, experimentation, and sales compensation administration. Partners with Marketing, Sales, SDR, Customer Success, and analytics teams to explain performance changes, improve funnel efficiency, support forecasting, and guide commercial decisions. Requires strong CRM, marketing automation, digital analytics, BI, spreadsheet, and commercial analysis skills.

Lead end-to-end enterprise CRM and digital transformation programs across Salesforce, ServiceNow, and CPQ. Drive capability modeling, operating model design, solution and requirement engineering, legacy-to-cloud migration, API/microservices integration, Agile delivery as Product Owner, stakeholder engagement, change management, UAT, and governance to optimize business outcomes.

Senior Business Analyst for energy transmission delivering Dynamic Line Rating, Digital Twin and Network Design capabilities. Lead discovery, translate complex engineering needs into epics and user stories, drive data-driven decisions, map and improve processes, support governance, and engage cross-functional stakeholders to ensure delivery of measurable business outcomes.

Support the Head of Client Delivery Transformation to scope and drive transformation programmes: map current processes, evaluate technology, gather cross-functional requirements, plan deployments, and redesign payment and reconciliation journeys to reduce manual work and enable automation.