Function

The Belgian, German and European energy landscape is in full swing. Did you know that Elia Group plays a crucial role in this?

As part of Elia Group, a European transmission system operator, Elia Belgium and 50Hertz in Germany ensure the reliability and sustainability of the electricity supply in both countries.

Side-by-side with your colleagues, you will, as a Senior Business Analyst, play a part in building a sustainable, green and reliable energy infrastructure that stimulates economic growth and reduces our ecological footprint.

The Senior Business Analyst supports complex change initiatives with a specific focus on the Procure-to-Pay end to end process, which includes procurement, finance, treasury and controlling-related processes.

Acting as a bridge between business departments, Product Owners, IT roles and other stakeholders, the Business Analyst translates strategic objectives into operational needs and clear requirements, while identifying dependencies across related products. In this way, the role helps ensure that solutions are goal-oriented, traceable and value-driven.

Description of Tasks and Responsibilities

The Business Analyst ensures that strategic objectives, business needs and operational requirements are clearly understood, structured, evaluated and translated into actionable requirements and analysis deliverables across the Procure-to-Pay domain.

In particular, the Business Analyst is responsible for:

• Analyzing, structuring, and describing cross-functional business processes, problem statements and requirements in close collaboration with the different involved business units, with a focus on end-to-end Procure-to-Pay processes and related products.
• Identifying, documenting, and aligning business requirements and translating them into functional concepts, e.g. in the form of use cases, process models or user stories.
• Translating strategic objectives and business priorities into operational needs, requirements and analysis deliverables that can be used by product and delivery teams.
• Identifying and transparently communicating dependencies, impact chains and alignment needs across related products within the Procure-to-Pay context.
• Supporting business units and Product Owners as a sparring partner, particularly in clarifying objectives, translating strategic priorities into operational needs, assessing alternative solutions and prioritizing requirements while maintaining a good understanding of the different business stakeholders involved.
• Supporting the different product and delivery teams in backlog-related clarifications, refinement activities and the continuous elaboration of requirements in a cross-product context.
• Modelling processes, information flows, dependencies and impact chains across products to establish a shared understanding between business and delivery partners.
• Taking responsibility for the quality of analysis artefacts (“evidence base”) as a foundation for well-informed decisions.
• Developing decision-making and prioritization inputs in agile contexts, e.g. for assessing business value, risks, dependencies, impacts and alternatives.
• Formulating and validating user stories including acceptance criteria and supporting the assurance of functional quality of solutions.
• Accompanying implementation activities, including functional alignment with IT, delivery teams and Business Analysts from related product domains, as well as reviewing functional and technical concepts with regard to achievement of objectives.
• Preparing, facilitating and documenting workshops and alignment formats with different stakeholders.
• Supporting knowledge build-up and transfer, e.g. through training sessions, documentation or functional support after solutions go live.
• Contributing to the further development, establishment and reputation of the
  business analysis practice within the organization.

Your Profile

• Master’s degree in a relevant field or equivalent by experience.  
• 5 years or more of professional experience as a Business Analyst.
• Familiar with end-to-end Procure-to-Pay processes and their interaction with the different business departments.
• Ability to structure complex topics, dependencies and stakeholder input and communicate them clearly and understandably.
• Ability to translate strategic objectives into operational needs and to move comfortably between high-level concepts and more detailed analysis.
• Experience in analyzing and modelling business processes.
• Strong communication and facilitation skills when working with diverse stakeholders from different business departments and needs.  
• Strong capability to break down complex, multi-pilar problems and propose acceptable solutions for the involved stakeholders.
• Very good English language skills, combined with French, Dutch or German at least at B2 level.

Optional / desirable:

• Knowledge of or certifications in BABOK, BPMN, UML and tools such as Jira and  confluence.
• Experience working with agile or hybrid product and project teams.
• Methodological competence in workshop facilitation, analysis, and decision-making techniques.
• Experience with SAP is a strong plus.

Offer

• Salary: a competitive salary package, allowance for representation expenses, year-end bonus, double vacation pay, meal vouchers (€10 per working day), eco-vouchers, sport & culture vouchers, bonuses based on individual and group results. 
• Insurance: group insurance, hospitalisation insurance, ambulant care insurance for the whole family and also personal accident insurance. 
• Vacation: You will be entitled to 20 vacation days and 5 additional vacation days, 6 local days, 4 exempt days (after 1 year of employment) and up to 5 long-service days (1 day for every 3 years in employment). 
• Social fund: Year-end vouchers, birth and marriage allowance. We will also cover part of the cost of glasses, a dental prosthesis or similar needs. 
• Communication: you will be given an iPhone, a phone subscription (for work and private use) and a laptop with internet reimbursement. 
• Discounts: you will enjoy a 30% discount on your gas and electricity bill. 
• Mobility: we will offer you a company car and public transport or a mobility budget. 
• Elia shares: Elia will give you the opportunity to subscribe to shares with a discount of 16.66% on the average share price. 

Location

Boulevard de l'Empereur 20. 1000 Brussels