Function
Purpose of the Position
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 Transversal Business Analyst, play a part in building a sustainable, green and reliable energy infrastructure that stimulates economic growth and reduces our ecological footprint.
As a Transversal Business Analyst, you play a key role in shaping complex, cross-functional change initiatives across the end-to-end Record to Report domain. Working across business units, products and projects, you connect business, technology and strategy and bring clarity to complex challenges. By creating a shared understanding of business needs, uncovering dependencies and translating them into high-level solution directions, you help deliver sustainable value across the organization.
The role offers a broad end-to-end perspective, covering areas such as Finance, Controlling, Procurement and Asset and Project Management. This will give you the opportunity to develop a strong end-to-end perspective and make a visible impact.
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 Record to Report domain.
In particular, the Business Analyst is responsible for:
ANALYST – Business needs & end-to-end analysis
- Analyzing, structuring and describing cross-functional business processes, problem statements and requirements in close collaboration with the involved business units, with a focus on end-to-end Record to Report processes and related products.
- Translating strategic objectives and business priorities into operational needs, requirements and analysis deliverables that can be used by product and delivery teams.
- Eliciting, documenting, aligning and validating business requirements across stakeholders and translating them into high-level solution requirements.
- Translating requirements into functional concepts and analysis deliverables, such as use cases, process models, information flows or user stories.
- Identifying and clarifying impacts, dependencies and alignment needs across related products and projects within the Record to Report domain.
ENABLER – Refinement, implementation and adoption
- Collaborating with different product and delivery teams on backlog clarifications, refinement and the continuous elaboration of requirements, with particular attention to cross-product dependencies and alignment.
- Supporting implementation through functional alignment with IT, delivery teams and Business Analysts from related product domains, and reviewing functional and technical concepts to ensure alignment with the intended objectives.
- Enabling knowledge build-up and transfer through training sessions, documentation or functional support after solutions go live.
CONNECTOR - Stakeholder partnering & decision support
- Acting as a sparring partner for business stakeholders and Product Owners by clarifying objectives, translating strategic priorities into operational needs, assessing solution alternatives and prioritizing requirements while maintaining a good understanding of the different business stakeholders involved.
- Supporting decision-making and prioritization by providing clear insights into business value, risks, dependencies, impacts and alternatives.
- Preparing, facilitating, and documenting workshops and alignment sessions with different stakeholders.
PRACTICE BUILDER - Strengthening the business analysis practice
- Ensuring the quality and consistency of analysis deliverables as a reliable foundation for decision-making.
- 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 through experience.
- At least 5 years of professional experience as a Business Analyst or a comparable analytical role.
- Experience with transversal topics spanning multiple domains, such as Finance, Controlling, Procurement, Asset Management and Project Management.
- 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 across different business departments and enterprise architecture.
- Strong capability to break down complex, multi-pilar problems and propose acceptable solutions for the stakeholders involved.
- Very good English language skills, combined with French, Dutch or German at B2 level or higher.
Optional / desirable:
- Knowledge or certifications in BABOK, Archimate, BPMN and UML
- Experience with 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
